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Barack Lowers His Worth with Cheap 'Dollar' Shot
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Aug 01, 2008 08:52am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Post |
| News Date | Friday, August 1, 2008 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New York Post.
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"Barack Obama committed the worst blunder of his campaign by wrongly accusing President Bush, John McCain and other Republicans of trying to make voters fear him because he's not "like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
This racial calumny is completely unfair, diminishes his own campaign, and certainly is the worst possible way to win over those blue-collar white Democrats in Ohio and Pennsylvania who picked Hillary Rodham Clinton over him in the primary.
And it's certainly not how he's gotten this far.
Whether Obama wins the White House in November or not, he will have enthralled the world, revolutionized modern American politics, and secured his place in history.
Defying every smug prediction, Obama raised more money, inspired more volunteers and executed a near-flawless campaign to become his party's nominee.
His base is broad, fervent and generous.
Throughout the campaign, race has never been the central, driving issue. If it were, Obama would still be just an inexperienced freshman senator from Illinois with a strange name and a wildly liberal voting record.
Obama emerged victorious from the snowy-white fields of Iowa not simply because he is Black, or even in spite of being black. He emerged victorious because he refused to allow his race to be the issue that defined him.
The only race card he has played up to now is the one that totally neutralizes the issue - the one that makes his race nearly invisible.
In his speech on race in Philadelphia earlier this year, he talked of the goodness he sees in people - even in whites who are routinely browbeaten by knee-jerk liberals and race hustlers in search of a quick political buck.
Barack Obama should return to these soaring ideals and quit this whining and fantasizing about Republicans making fun of him because he doesn't look like George Washington." |
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