McCain, The Race Card and The Obama Currency

Barack Obama: “So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me... You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He’s risky. That’s essentially the argument they’re making.”

McCain Campaign Manager, Rick Davis: “Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck... It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.”

John McCain on Davis' statement: “I agree with it, and I’m disappointed that Senator Obama would say the things he’s saying...”

Steve Schmidt, McCain Campaign: “The McCain campaign was compelled to respond to this outrageous attack because we will not allow John McCain to be smeared by Senator Obama as a racist for offering legitimate criticism. We have waited for months with a sick feeling knowing this moment would come because we watched it incur with President Clinton."

Now watch a McCain web ad inserting Barack Obama's face on a hundred dollar bill.



They really should leave the comedy to the non-Republicans. McCain and his campaign went apeshit over Obama's "doesn't look like other presidents on dollar bills" comment, accusing him of injecting race into the campaign. And now it looks as if the very thing they were so outraged about was in fact ACTUALLY PERPETRATED by the McCain campaign over a month ago!

Granted, Obama didn't speak specifically to this video, he was speaking in general terms, although one wonders if he did see the video in passing or perhaps someone had described it to him. But you have to admit it's an interesting development nonetheless to have actual McCain campaign ad footage of the very thing that Obama described and then accuse him of playing the race card.

It's two separate incidents, but it's one BIG coincidence.

(H/T Michael Shaw, HuffPo)