Stop With The Race Card Already

TPM has a round up with two new Obama ads and a new McCain ad. They offer this as an introduction:

Check out the latest McCain ad, especially the line, "How disrespectful." Doesn't it just drip with contempt? The sort of old-fashioned contempt that whites often held blacks in (and obviously still do). Take a look.

We get the talking point guys. Anything and everything other than unconditional positive regard someone says about Obama is obviously a racist attack. You should have known that device wouldn't work going in to the campaign.

But if that's all you got - go for it. It's a sure way for the Left to alienate even more of the vast majority of American voters than you already have. And if the media picks it up - as they seem to be doing with a good deal of TPM stuff lately - you're guy (extra credit, as I didn't say "boy"?) is doomed.

Obama has to win or lose this election as a man and a politician. He can't win it any other way, especially if he wants to hold true to his purported post-racial candidacy meme.

Comments

[joeb]

All Obama has left is to play the race card. And try to play the victim. After all he is a creation of Oprah. She refuses to have any other candidate on her show but Obama. Wonder why?
Where is Hillary when he needs her? Oh that's right she is getting ready for four years from now.

[Terry Gain]

TPM

Is that Josh Andrew Marshall Sullivan?

[Anon]

Never think the clock isn't ticking for the race card to come out.....I guarantee you that the Obama and the media and the rest of the Democratic surrogates are going to find something to hang the racism card on between now and election day

[templar knight]

Yep, I agree with that assessment, Anon. It will no doubt be an October surprise, something on the order of the National Guard documents in the 2004 elections.

[seekeronos]

"--- hang the racism card ... ---"

Oops! Better edit that one before the Obama campaign sics Morris Dees and the SPLC on you.

[SacTownMan]

Hey is Xerxes black?

[seekeronos]

Depends upon which Xerxes you refer to:

1) The historical king of the Medes and Persians, Xerxes, was most likely a Persian. Persians are actually a sub-group of Caucasians, deriving from the Aryan bloodlines (real Aryans are actually quite a bit more darkly complected with dark brown to black hair).

2) The character of the god-king played by Rodrigo Santoro, a Brazilian actor. While Brazilians are much thoroughly race-mixed than Americans, Mr. Santoro appears to be predominately Caucasian. The Wiki article on him has a few pictures of him in his normal, every day appearance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Santoro

3) The character of Scipio from the Harry Turtledove "Timeline-191" series of books was a black slave (and later freed to live as a Confederate resident) - following the aftermath of the Great War (WW1 in TL-191 is a true world war, with the book series covering the war as is fought in the Americas between the CSA and the USA), Scipio uses "Xerxes" as an alias to avoid bounty hunters and the like who are looking for him.