I've been paying less attention to politics since work began, but the latest dust-up in the campaign seems to be over Barack Obama's comments about not looking like "all those other presidents on the dollar bills"...which is true and isn't a racist statement at all. However, John McCain, his campaign, and the rest of the sinking craphole that is the Republican Party decided to throw a hissy fit over the comments, with McCain's campaign manager saying that Obama was playing the race card "from the bottom of the deck."
Just shut up, Rick Davis, Lindsey Graham, and the rest of you idiotic, babbling fools. It's an insult to everyone's intelligence to waste time on something that is a non-issue. Of course, the GOP knows all about using racial tactics to secure votes - the main reason why it was able to flip the South into a solidly Republican voting bloc at the national level - and this is merely another perpetuation of the strategy. I guess it's hard to try and win on the issues when polling on what counts - the issues - shows the GOP to be desperately out of touch with the electorate.
It will be nice when these tools are relegated to a long-suffering minority standing nationally after November.
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