That the McCain Camp is using coded language about Obama in the long tradition of repubs using coded language to demonize black people and fire up their low-information voters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXvK84MPqQ

And his last point is very true — everyone knows Obama is black, why can’t he talk about that?  None of these folks pushed back on Hillary [...]

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Barack Obama’s announcement of his VP choice could come any day now.  With the Olympics starting on Friday, and ending the weekend before the start of the Democratic convention, this coming week seems like an opitune time for him to announce.  Further, it would end John McCain’s silly tantums, at least in the press’s eyes, [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-u5mDZfrLw

Newsweek:
In the middle of John McCain’s dopey Britney & Paris attack ad, the announcer gravely asks of Barack Obama: “Is He Ready to Lead?” An equally good question is whether McCain is ready to lead. For a man who will turn 72 this month, he’s a surprisingly immature politician—erratic, impulsive and subject to peer pressure [...]

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quotes “Obama scares the hell out of me”
“he is unknown”
“Have you read about him? REALLY, read about him”
Yes, I’m liberal remember…
“He’s not your kind of liberal, he’s, he’s almost, he’s almost socialist, communist”
Insert laughing I’ve read his book Ms. Mayor, he’s not a communist
silence
“They need to allow us to drill for oil”
They have like [...]

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According to the Washington Post… yes.
In 2000 and 2004, Florida was a bright spot on the nation’s economic landscape, reaping the rewards of a building boom that was drawing people to the state, filling government coffers and supplying jobs from construction to real estate sales to financial speculation. But Obama awoke Friday to a banner [...]

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From the Dialogue Delaware column in the NJ:
Delaware Grapevine — the standard-setter of Delaware’s political comment lines — was lauded by everyone from politicians to fellow bloggers, all of whom expressed dismay at its demise.
I don’t think you can classify our reaction as dismay.
Are you dismayed?  Can you go on?

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I have seen this commercial every hour on nearly every channel I watch over the past three days.    The ad buys seem to be on both Philadelphia air and Comcast cable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlLe8_PwMWY

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Courtesy of Sam Loomis on Daily Kos:
THE LINEUP -
Meet The Press: John Kerry (D-MA) and soon-to-be-irrelevant Joe Lieberman (R-McSame). Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd and Judy Woodruff have very serious and enlightened discourse about racial whining, meanwhile your local grocery is slowly pricing you out of their market. Important discussions.
Tweety: Joe Klein, the great Eugene Robinson, [...]

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