“Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck," said Rick Davis, Sen. John McCain's campaign manager, in a statement issued today. "It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.”
Davis was responding to comments made by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois in Rolla, Missouri, and then blatantly stating in Union, Missouri that McCain is running a campaign of fear with catchwords that [Obama's] "got a funny name and he doesn’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills." Meaning, that he's black.
This is the exact same tactic Obama used against Sen. Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary campaign, to which former President Bill Clinton declared was "planned." Back then, it was the "by the way, he's black" comment. Now Obama has dusted this tactic off and is trying to use it against Sen. McCain.
It appears that since Obama's tour in Europe and the Middle East, his poll numbers are down and is getting desperate. Didn't Obama say he was a "uniter, not a divider"? He sure doesn't sound like a uniter now, does he?
UPDATE: Despite Obama's prior protestations to the contrary, he now admits his comments did have racial overtones.
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