Brent Budowsky: McCain, Media Allies Play the Uppity Black Card

[babylonsister]

McCain, Media Allies Play the Uppity Black Card
by Brent Budowsky | August 1, 2008

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This whole attack on Obama from the McCain campaign, which is systematically personal, negative, vindictive and often (as I've shown) based on outright falsehood, is deliberately aimed to create stereotypical images with various elements of the electorate. And to use innuendo that is barely disguised, to appeal to instincts that should have no place in politics.

Barack Obama was accepted by Harvard and rose to lead the Harvard Law Review the old-fashioned way: he earned it. Michelle Obama, who has been subjected to the worst slander campaign of any potential first lady in history, earned her success the old- fashioned way: she earned it.

McCain is a guy who wears $500 shoes, has a family net worth of more than $100 million, has a long history of campaign contributions from companies appearing before his congressional committee, is one of the oil companies' closest allies in Congress — and McCain calls Obama, a child of a single-parent household, who achieved everything by hard work and talent, who gave up huge potential income to work with churches to help laid-off workers — he calls Obama an elitist?

McCain's campaign is run by people who worked for George Bush and Karl Rove, and his campaign is a textbook copy of the Bush attack against war hero John Kerry and others they slander in their obsessive hunger for power.

The McCain campaign is employing innuendo, stereotypes and multiple appeals to base instincts to use racial and class resentments the McCain campaign believes can be fomented and exploited for votes.

My guess is this won’t work. Some of the people can be fooled some of the time, but America has progressed far more than the McCain operatives and many in the media believe.

My information is: Every time these slanderous attacks are launched against Obama, his 1.5 million small donor list grows and average Americans are outraged and motivated to act by donating more to Obama.

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[FrenchieCat]

1. that's $520.00 shoes.

[BlooInBloo]

2. The more white folks say this, the better off we'll all be.