Is McCain 'race-baiting'? - Los Angeles Times - The Diigo Meta page

• 19 Oct 08
  

  Clay Burell

  Goldberg cites the examples, then tries to dismiss them. I'm not convinced. Emphasizing "Hussein" in speeches and rallies clearly tries to paint Obama not as an African-American, but as an ARAB. So it's post-9/11 racism, in a subtle way.
  
  Regardless, it's

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  • Still, I can't help feeling that the examples this year are ambiguous. I'm not saying McCain is or isn't a racist. How would I know what's in his heart? But in a country whose racial history is as tragic and as raw as ours, these are serious charges that shouldn't be thrown around lightly, the way Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) seemed to do last week when he irresponsibly compared McCain's campaign to George Wallace's.
    
    If people are going to make charges of racism, they should back them up.

    • Lewis was concerned about McCain/Palin's tardiness in condemning the cries of "kill him" and "off with his head" and "traitor" at the M/P rallies.
      
      Defenders say McCain stood up against them a couple of times. But he did so only after several days, while we all watched them on YouTube.
      
      But McCain doesn't know how to use the internet, by his own admission, and Palin can't name anything she reads - so maybe neither of them were aware of it.
      
      Which brings us back to campaign manager Rick Davis, who surely should be monitoring the web for developments, and crafting timely responses to them.
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  Clay Burell on 2008-10-19
  Lewis was concerned about McCain/Palin's tardiness in condemning the cries of "kill him" and "off with his head" and "traitor" at the M/P rallies.
  
  Defenders say McCain stood up against them a couple of times. But he did so only after several days, while we all watched them on YouTube.
  
  But McCain doesn't know how to use the internet, by his own admission, and Palin can't name anything she reads - so maybe neither of them were aware of it.
  
  Which brings us back to campaign manager Rick Davis, who surely should be monitoring the web for developments, and crafting timely responses to them.

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