Playing the Race Card?

Or just reporting the facts?

What Obama said:

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.

This comment sent the McCain into a full-court tizzy, with attack-dog, er, excuse me, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis claiming Obama had "played the race card and he played it from the bottom of the deck." Davis called Obama's remarks "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

So, Rick Davis is saying that comparing Obama to the faces of presidents on the currency would be a racist thing to do, I guess. It must be, because if it isn't, how could complaining about it be 'playing the race card', from either the top or bottom of the proverbial deck?

And the part that makes it "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong" would be the implication that the McCain campaign would never, ever, stoop to making a racist attack like that, I guess. Rick Davis wants us to know that it was Obama, not McCain who brought up the whole issue of Obama not looking like the faces on currency, and that whole 'black' thing. McCain apparently had not even thought about such a thing, before Obama shamefully accused him of it.

I guess Rick Davis is assuming no one remembers this McCain campaign ad from June?


Near as I can tell, the only thing Obama got wrong was that McCain's ad had his face on the $100 bill, not the dollar or the five.