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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (67052)5/20/2008 1:37:52 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (3) of 542642
 
Last week, Barack Obama predicted that John McCain would run a scurrilous campaign based on distractions and innuendo, and challenged the media not to play along. Funny how every controversy that has harmed Obama turns out to be a distraction--a distraction, no doubt, from the country's noble business of electing Obama president.

Newsweek has run a cover story accepting Obama's theory of the race: Republicans have only won national elections on slime.

Today, Harold Meyerson argues that if Republicans win the presidential election it will have to be because of racism:

"In Appalachian America (the heart of which went to the polls yesterday in West Virginia), as Mark Schmitt notes in the forthcoming issue of the American Prospect (which I edit), a disproportionate number of people write "American" when answering the census question on ethnic origin. For some, "American" is a race -- white -- no less than a nationality, and it's on this equation that Republican prospects depend."

Talk about innuendo. . .

What we have here is a pre-emptive attempt to define the act of campaigning hard against Obama as per se illegitimate. McCain and the Republicans have now been warned: Their role in this election is to be good losers. If McCain sees another role for himself, he needs to push back against this smear campaign, hard.

Ramesh_Ponnuru

washingtonpost.com
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