well, the bastards are at it again: another article about how McCain is playing on peoples subconcious fears regarding blacks. I mean, the Obama camp and its wretched acolytes and apologists in the press are shameless with this race baiting nonsense. They smeared Hillary with it [and her husband] but other than denying the reality of it she really couldn't counter attack since a significant section of Democrat primary voters were sympathetic to the black thing - hell, look what they did to Geraldine Ferraro: she simply pointed out the obvious, that a certain element of the left wing were in love with idea of electing a black president, and was labeled a racist. McCain will indeed have a freer hand when it comes to refuting this nonsense, but when the goal of the smear is to rouse subconscious sympathy for Obama by simply suggesting, no matter how tenuously, that any attack on him has a racist element to it - well, can you refute something like that? Suppose so - but will have to be smart about it.
Of course republicans have been doing the same to liberals for years over ideas of patriotism and support for the military etc - what's curious is how comfortable extreme elements of left wing are with turn around is fair play notion - that seems quite out of step with their purported ideals. Don't quite know what to make of that. Other than it worries me.
