Obama plays the race card again.

[Democratic Hawk]

I really would wish McCain would call him on his constant attempts to play the race card, and I wish his supporters would open their eyes and see the light in this regard.

Lets get one thing straight. Barack Obama is not, never has been and never will be a 'race card' politician. He's post-racial . He didn't play 'race' politics in his IL-01 primary challenge to Bobby Rush; he didn't in his US Senate campaign and he ain't doing it now. Obama is trying to take America forward into a new post-racial era

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Well, he doesn't

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That's a ridiculous assertion. Why? Because it makes no sense

As if the Hawk would have endorsed Obama if he thought that he was just some black-identity political agitator running on grievances. You know me better than that, MODU

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

Why should we all bow down to your judgement? Referring to your own opinions in the 3rd person do not really make them more convincing.

Just because you have an investment in a McCain presidency, it doesn't follow I do.  America already has a conservative Republican president and I'm not impressed. Given that McCain has shuffled that far to the right (I'm surprised he hasn't dislocated his hip), there is nothing to reassure me that he'd be any better

As far as both Obama and McCain are concerned, I'm gonna tell it like it is. You have your preference, I have mine. End of!

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

I don't think he was ever asking that everybody agree with him, or did I miss that part?

Exactly . Nevertheless when I see a good man being run down, I'm gonna wade in

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

sorry, a well-connected, sh**tty pilot

Here is an ad hoping to gain votes from racist hispanic voters:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKxWrPQFXc

Hilariously s**tty ad but it is not racist.

It's only racist because he must think all Hispanics are stupid. I, personally, felt intellectually insulted by that ad.

Well if you think he is being racist/ignorant against hispanics then that is your opinion. But I really doubt he is trying to flame up black-latino tensions.

older, poorer, less-educated hispanics seem to have problems voting for a black man. In the primary here, hillary did nearly as well among spanish-speaking Latinos as Obama did among blacks. Obama did noticably better among English-speaking Latinos. For all the talk about the need for a black-brown alliance, it doesn't exist outside of academia.

Oh yeah there is certainly a divide between the two communities, in many cases because they compete for the same jobs and live in similar neighborhoods and have similar problems. Both sides feel the other is getting preferential treatment and it just escalates from there. But when they are choosing between the democrat and the republican, many will choose the democrat more so than 2004 because of the nativist wing of the republican party. Remember back in 2004 Bush was promising amnesty for illegals living here and was promising a comprehensive immigration plan. We all know what happened then........

In Gallup's latest aggregate tracking, Obama is leading McCain 68% to 20% among Hispanics (21 - 27 June)

http://www.gallup.com/poll/108040/Candidate-Support-Race.aspx

It's tightened, overall, between Obama and McLowRoadExpress since then however

Dave