McCain and racism - his latest strategy

Apparently McCain is showing his true color, and it happens to be white. The article below was printed in yesterday's Huffington Post and discusses McCain's attempt to juxtapose Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Maybe I missed something but how are media-created "stars" (and I use that word very lightly) who made themselves famous for drugs, child neglect and running around sans underwear even remotely comparable to the best Presidential candidate we've seen in the last decade? This is a pathetic attempt to play on the gullibility of those who can't distinguish between legitimate news and propaganda.

John McCain Plays the Race Card
Posted July 31, 2008 09:33 AM (EST)
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"I have great admiration and respect for Senator Obama."
If so, McCain has a funny way of showing it. All we've seen and heard from him for the last month is a string of personal attacks, culminating in yesterday's ad smearing Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world." He's just another famous, pretty face, in other words, and not ready for the presidency.

True? No. Childish? Yes. But that's not all. This ad is also deliberately and deceptively racist.
Of all the famous celebrities they could have compared Obama to, why not Tom Cruise? Or Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Donald Trump, or Oprah Winfrey? Why Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Why two white blond bimbos?

Only one reason. It's a somewhat tamer version of the white bimbo ad used so successfully against Harold Ford in Tennessee. In juxtaposing Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the McCain campaign is simply trying to plant the old racist seed of black man hitting on young white woman. Not directly, but subliminally and disgracefully.

One thing for sure. This isn't the John McCain we first saw in 2000, running a campaign on the issues. And this isn't the positive McCain campaign he himself promised us for 2008. This is a campaign that, from the beginning, is nothing but negative, personal, dirty and, yes, racist.

Maybe we need to speak out not only in support of Obama and the honorable and above-board manner in which he has dealt with McCain's mudslinging, but also against McCain and his pathetic attempts to play on ignorance. Maybe we should start e-mailing the McCain campaign and demanding that he stop the unfounded personal attacks on Obama and focus on the issues. Maybe one e-mail wouldn't make much of an impact, but I'll bet 100,000 would . Wonder how we can get the ball rolling on this? Here's a link to send messages to the McCain campaign:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
also phone # (703) 418-2008
If I find better contact info I'll post it on this blog.

A colleague relayed a comment Obama made that was so profound I've been pondering it for a whole day. Obama said something like "We are the people we've been waiting for", as in if we want change, we're only waiting till we get off of our collective asses and work for it ourselves.

Peace,
AuntieM