Sue Lowden, Nevada’s RNC chair, weighs in on the nasty racial accusations against Harry Reid re: the Burris appointment.
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Completely disgusted with Obama’s lack of intellectual honesty and/or anything resembling a moral center, I indulged in a bit of name calling yesterday. I don’t believe in justifying things on tit-for-tat basis, but Peter Kirsanow on The Corner does remind us of this:
…Obama calls those who have pointed out his false explanations regarding his Born-Alive vote “liars.”
Obama has a penchant for pejoratives unique among modern presidential candidates. Last week he called Republicans “ignorant.”
Several times during the campaign he’s implied that his opponents are racist.
Earlier he derided rural, blue collar Americans as bitter, bible-clinging, gun-toting racist xenophobes.
Meanwhile, he yelps at imaginary slights directed at him: yesterday, he once again complained about Republicans questioning his patriotism.
A few Cornerites are batting around the contention that if Obama is not elected, bitter accusations of racism from the Left will haunt our nation for another 20 years.
Maybe so, but I agree with John Miller:
I would argue that although the defeat of Obama may hurt race relations to some degree (especially when liberals try to pin it on racism), even worse would be for America’s first black president to be a failed president.
Here’s a gem from Mark Hemingway, one of my faves @ NRO:
Paranoid much?
I see that Rick Perlstein isn’t just under the impression that McCain’s “Celeb” ad is racist, but also that it’s a deliberate attempt to invoke comparisons between Obama and Hitler, and was even shot to look just like Triumph of the Will — “I actually wonder if the Republicans had a crew on the scene to capture just the right angles,” Perlstein says.
I would say something about how pathetic and silly this is, but Ross Douthat beat me to the punch:
Here’s a tip for liberals: If your candidate is going to stage enormous rallies in front of tens of thousands of chanting Germans (with monuments to Prussian military might in the background) in the middle of his Presidential campaign, it isn’t the GOP’s fault if the footage comes out looking a little like Hitler at Nuremberg.
