In the wake of the comments by Barack Obama in Missouri this week about him not looking like all those other presidents on dollar bills, Sean Hannity asked a pointed question this week on the Hannity and Colmes Show to Democratic strategist, Michael Brown. Brown, predictably, hit it into the first base dugout.
While debating the comments made by Obama, Hannity asked Brown to name one time that John McCain or anyone from his campaign has ever made any statement about Obama's race or name in discouraging voters from voting for the Illinois senator. Brown couldn't, but said that many Republicans are thinking that way.
Two thoughts in response:
First of all, that reminds me of the comments made several times in past years by Howard Dean to the effect that Republicans can only attract minorities if they are waiters or servants. Dean, of course, was on his way to the 2004 Democratic nomination until he wandered into Iowa and demonstrated to Iowans and Americans all over the country that he was nothing more than a big-mouth jerk. So now, he insists on going around and throwing out this canard that Republicans are racists, which Brown has picked up on.
Secondly, I seem to remember reading and hearing about a lot of Democratic primary voters who seemed concerned about Obama and his middle name-especially after Jeremiah Wright crawled out from under his rock. I also remember the Clintons and their campaign subtly trying to inject that theme into the race.
Michael Brown is a classic spin doctor who can't concede one point in any debate. If Obama has, in fact, played the race card-or is accused of playing the race card, the Michael Browns in the Democratic Party are not going to say or do anything but to defend him. So now Brown pulls out that old "Republicans are racists" canard. It is getting old, and I predict that it won't play well in this election.
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