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July 31, 2008
El Stence Auxiliary Update: Goddamn!
Holy hell! You dudes raised $400 in six hours! Goddamn! I am deeply fuckin impressed - and very, very grateful. Apparently you're as pissed off with today's events as I am - and, as you'll see below, The New York Times' editorial board is - and I thank you very much for your efforts today. Despite the hurricane of bullshit coming from McCain's team of Bush '04 goons, I am proud and optimistic tonight. We've got these fuckers on the ropes - they wouldn't be swinging so wild if they weren't already halfway done.
Personal thank you notes coming to each and every one of you ballers tomorrow morning. Thanks everyone. Stay tuned.
The NY Times ed board - which, may I remind you, endorsed John McCain in the Republican primaries this year - took McCain to task for his shit-slinging this afternoon. Here's a taste, but the whole thing is well-worth it.
[T]here was something surreal, and offensive, about today's soundbite from the campaign of Senator John McCain.
The presumptive Republican nominee has embarked on a bare-knuckled barrage of negative advertising aimed at belittling Mr. Obama. The most recent ad compares the presumptive Democratic nominee for president to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton - suggesting to voters that he's nothing more than a bubble-headed, publicity-seeking celebrity.
The ad gave us an uneasy feeling that the McCain campaign was starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama that Republican operatives, some of whom work for Mr. McCain now, ran against Harold Ford, a black candidate for Senate in Tennessee in 2006. That assault, too, began with videos juxtaposing Mr. Ford with young, white women.
Mr. Obama called Mr. McCain on the ploy, saying, quite rightly, that the Republicans are trying to scare voters by pointing out that he "doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills."
But Rick Davis, Mr. McCain's campaign manager, had a snappy answer. "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck," he said. "It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."
The retort was, we must say, not only contemptible, but shrewd. It puts the sin for the racial attack not on those who made it, but on the victim of the attack.
Posted by caps at July 31, 2008 10:36 PM