Dukakis Plays The Race Card
by Matt Margolis, September 22nd, 2008 at 09:32pm
I’ve long believed that with Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee, that the Democrats would play the race card to insulate Obama from attacks.
And, of course, who better to play the race card than Mike Dukakis, who thinks the infamous Willie Horton ad that demonstrated his poor record on crime was also a race-based attack.
Former Gov. Michael Dukakis said Monday that John McCain’s presidential campaign is using the same race-based tactics that were used against him in his 1988 presidential run.
The Brookline Democrat was referring to a recent McCain ad that claimed Democratic nominee Barack Obama received economic advice from Franklin Raines, the former CEO of the recently bailed out mortgage lender Fannie Mae. The ad features images of Raines and Obama, two African Americans, and then an image of an elderly white woman.
Asked if he considered the ad to be in the same vein as the infamous ‘Willie Horton’ ad ad run by a third party group in support of George H.W. Bush in the 1988 presidential campaign, Dukakis told PolitickerMA.com: “Essentially, yes.”
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First, Dukakis said, the McCain ad is based on a lie. Raines isn’t one of Obama’s closest economic advisors, he said. Other members from Fannie Mae have advised Obama but the McCain camp chose to focus the ad specifically on Raines, an African American.“Why did they pick that person from Fannie Mae?” he asked rhetorically.
What Dukakis has chosen to ignore is that McCain also has an ad highlighting Obama’s ties to Jim Johnson, former FAnnie MAe CEO who also once led Obama’s VP selection team. Johnson is white. So, to ask the same question Dukakis did, “Why did they pick that person from Fannie Mae?”
Must have been Johnson’s race.
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1. V | September 23rd, 2008 at 8:34 am
Is the Duke drinking the Jimmy Carter juice? He has gone even further around the bend than he was before. He’s morphed into a full fledged loony.
Ask him how Amtrack is doing.
The Dems played the race card LONG before this Matt. The minute Obama became a candidate for the nomination the race card was played.
Remember, he’s “a clean cut black guy”. It’s more about the story than the substance (remember Deval’s “story”?).
Seems to me, his life growing up was somewhat easier than mine. And, he went to Harvard. Few of us who were smart enough as suburban public school kids could have even dreamed of getting into Harvard. (Oh, yeah, he received help from Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and a Saudi billionaire, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal…… )
So, now they will whine and cry about “race” and “racism”. Oh boo hoo.
I heard a woman on the radio the other day complaining to Pat Desmarais that “America is still racist” and that “Americans wouldn’t elect MLK Jr today”. Of course, she is a black woman who is supporting Obama “because he is black”. No racism there. And when Pat tried to explain that Colin Powell was hovering at about 65% in a poll (who would vote for him to be President), she mumbled something incoherent and changed the subject.
It’s time the Dems faced facts; a lot of Obama’s supporters support him for the simple reason that he is black. That is racism at its core.
If he were a white guy, or an Asian guy, or a Martian guy with a similar “resume”, no one would have ever heard of him.
2. Free Speech | September 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 am
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.HarryS.TrumanHarry S. Truman
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