Obama in Rolla, Mo. yesterday
abc news blog
“John McCain right now, he’s spending an awful lot of time talking about me,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said today in Rolla, Mo. “You notice that? I haven’t seen an ad yet where he talks about what he’s gonna do. And the reason is because those folks know they don’t have any good answers, they know they’ve had their turn over the last eight years and made a mess of things. They know that you’re not real happy with them.”
Obama continued: “And so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. So what they’re saying is, ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he’s… doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he’s got a, he’s got a funny name.’
“I mean, that’s basically the argument — he’s too risky,” Obama said, per ABC News’ Sunlen Miller. “But think about it, what’s the bigger risk? Us deciding that we’re going to come together to bring about real change in America or continuing to do same things with the same folks in the same ways that we know have not worked? I mean, are we really going to do the same stuff that we’ve been doing over the last eight years? … That’s a risk we cannot afford. The stakes are too high.”
Obama made similar comments earlier in the day in Springfield, Mo.
Then in Union, Mo., this evening, Obama seemed to specifically accuse McCain and the GOP of peddling racism and xenophobia.
Obama said that “John McCain and the Republicans, they don’t have any new ideas, that’s why they’re spending all their time talking about me. I mean, you haven’t heard a positive thing out of that campaign in … in a month. All they do is try to run me down and you know, you know this in your own life. If somebody doesn’t have anything nice to say about anybody, that means they’ve got some problems of their own. So they know they’ve got no new ideas, they know they’re dredging up all the stale old stuff they’ve been peddling for the last eight, 10 years.
“But, since they don’t have any new ideas the only strategy they’ve got in this election is to try to scare you about me. They’re going to try to say that I’m a risky guy, they’re going to try to say, ‘Well, you know, he’s got a funny name and he doesn’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five dollar bills and, and they’re going to send out nasty emails.
“And, you know, the latest one they’ve got me in an ad with Paris Hilton,” Obama said, referring to a McCain campaign ad launched today. “You know, never met the woman. But, but, you know, what they’re gonna try to argue is that somehow I’m too risky.”
McCain’s newest AD
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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Whew wow Obama sure has a lot of resentment in his soul. Jealousy, race anger so many things. How childish he is with all the ….”he’s got a funny name and he doesn’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five dollar bills”….what he is ashamed of his name and resents the past Presidents on our money? sheesh
There’s a lot of racist stuff out there but it is all coming from Obama and his wife. Obama has to constantly point out that he is black ( or almost black …whatever) . His racist comments were in the first few sentences in his speech in Germany that he made. So Obama is a total liar, HE is the one that is a racist! He wears it like a badge of feel sorry for me and vote for me because this is my claim to fame to be the first NON white to possibly be President. yadda yadda yadda
Not only has McCain not peddled any of it, he’s condemned it.
Why doesn’t Obama play both race cards? Why doesn’t he complain to bible thumping, gun toting typical Whites about Black discrimination against his half White background?
Keep it up barry, play the victim card and whatever other joker you have up your sleeve. This mantra of ‘poor me’ is starting to get old. He talks about the republicans not having any new ideas when compared to inflating your tires ?, this is going to take him far.
People get tired real fast of this kind of campaigning, that he is the victim. And talk about new ideas, inflate your tires to save gas, he sounds more like jimmy carter everyday. I am sure if it were cold out he would be telling everyone to turn down their thermostats.
Same old tired 50 years of the same old Democrat-Socialist rhetoric of class warfare and racial victimization. With out Congress we wouldn’t have racial division, they have ensured it, nor would we have a nation within a nation or Reservations. Abolish special handling for anyone if you truly believe in equality. Obama is living proof of the monster that black racism has created.
Uncle Remus, was that ‘tarbaby’ really black?
Tom, haha yes he should.
He seems to only claim being black and not wanting to respect his white part of who he is. He seems nuts about it too so filled with hate.
Mark, yes he would care less if people froze in the winter months.
Me too, I have very little tolerance for this type of complaining Obama and his wife do. Like you said the poor me stuff wears thin fast.
Jack, exactly so very true.
Did you notice how the DSP – Democratic Socialist Party – has gagged militant Michelle Obama recently in the press? Hmmmmmm?
2bornot2b?….heh heh yes I sure have. she has been silenced hahahaa
Why don’t you ever face our real enemy–China? Is it because you are a George W. Bush supporter? Bush is afraid of China and for good reason. That’s why he’s going to the Olympics. He doesn’t want to make them angry, even though they are hacking into our computers daily.
“U.S. defense officials confirmed that Chinese military hackers had broken into computers at the Pentagon used for email within the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates….”
China is the real enemy, not Obama. McCain and Bush are the real friends of Asian communists and that makes you one of them.