I've never used this before, but it seems appropriate: Fuck off, troll.  We don't need or want you here.

Sricki, thanks for finding this gem.

I love it to, because this kid made this video to make fun of people like this:

You people are exhausting.

Thank you for your thoughtful insight.  I'm glad to know how you feel.

Oh, by the way, had this been posted at RedState.com it would have been worded much the same.  Just thought I'd get that out there.

Did Obama cross a line?  Perhaps, perhaps not.  Is John McCain race baiting?  No, he isn't and his campaign isn't.  Are members of the Republican Party race-baiting?

You bet your ass.

When you say:

"It is about time our campaign adapts to the reality."

Who the fuck are you talking about?  By "our" I can only assume you mean Republican.  You're on the wrong site dipshit.

I'm with the Guardian on this one:

It was not clear last night whether McCain genuinely felt he had been traduced by Obama the previous day, or whether McCain's team is exploiting Obama's comments to get race up and running as an issue.

Except I probably wouldn't have used the word "traduced". It means "slandered", but I had to look it up. Must be a British thing.

Personally, I think he was dancing around race, without actually saying it, but as part of a more general Republican strategy:

McCain's team pounced on Obama over a speech in Springfield, Missouri, in which he said: "So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. That's essentially the argument they're making."

It's not "They're after the black guy!", but it would end up being played that way. Unfortunately, when you're discussing the right-wing attacks on Obama, you can't get away from the fact that some involve either (A) race, (B) parentage, (C) ignorance.

Actually, you can't play the race card unless you have a creature on the table and you tap three forests. Unless you discard your hand.

And Obama has to ignore the fact that he is black?

And he isn't allowed to call them on their bullshit when they use subtle little messages to remind people of that?

Go fuck yourself, McTroll.

Obama's damned right they're carefully trying to paint him as the "scary" candidate.  Gee, what better way to do that than to remind everyone he's black.

   Obama says that GOP is trying to scare voters b/c he's black. We know that's what the GOP does to black candidates.

  And yet it's Obama playing the race card. Good grief!!

  In the primary, it was a Clinton surrogate who suggested Obama was a crackhead. It was a Clinton surrogate who suggested Obama wouldn't be anywhere near where he was if he was white.

  But it was Obama playing the race card.

  Oh brother....the lunacy returns!!!!

Some don't agree with you.

http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0 7/31/say-what-john-mccain-barack-obama-a nd-the-race-card/

In a campaign where emails about Obama being a Muslim terrorist have been sent around, and after the 2004 campaign in which fear was pretty much the sole GOP talking point, I can't imagine how what Obama said is "playing the race card."  

Are you a fucking Democrat or not?  If not, fine...then why are you here?  If so, what's the deal with defending the GOP, after all that they've done?

boo.

these trolls are killing mydd for me.

from jsfox's link:

The phrase dealing the race card "from the bottom of the deck" entered the national lexicon during the O.J. Simpson saga. Robert Shapiro, one of Mr. Simpson's lawyers, famously declared of himself, Johnny Cochran and the rest of the Simpson defense team, "Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck."

So, Rick Davis coincidentally links Obama and O.J.? Really?

It's a truly shrewd attack line, but make no mistake that it's racial.

Also, how dare Obama play the "Being a Vastly Superior Candidate" card? It's hardly sporting.

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Well, duh.

Why don't you go back to your old man lover McBushes web site and bask in an old man's smell troll.

you troll now excuse us because Obama is busy winning a election.

"Look, it's disingenuous to claim that Obama wasn't referring to the color of his skin.  The campaign's denial didn't even pass the laugh test.  It's a good line--funny, hip, with more than a kernel of truth to it.  But you gotta realize that while it plays well to some, especially in our party, it doesn't play well to a whole lot of voters we really need, including moderate Republicans and disgruntled former Clinton supporters.  So, be careful with that kind of wink-wink shit, because it just won't play so well in the general election."

But you didn't.  You had to base it all on that "Obama and the media teamed up to destroy the Clintons with the race card" bullshit.  Rather than a helpful diary about how maybe we could like frame it better cause we're all in this together, dudes, we get one that says, your guy's a cynical player of the card of the race, and he better stop it quick because true-blue Americans won't have the wool pulled over

shit i don't even have the heart to finish it.  pretty weak.

I am retiring my offensive name for Hillary, because it isn't her, it is scum that have deluded themselves to believe they are in fact speakin in her name that I loathe, thank you for helping me lowly troll.

Finally, a troll diary backfires.

Or is this Larry Johnson or Pagan Power slithering back?

helped put this on the rec list.

Just look at the words 'Finally' and 'card' in their context in this subject line. It makes me puke.  With all the racist shit that HAS gone on, IT AIN'T A CARD being played.

And, finally, the word finally just so clearly demonstrates where this diarist is coming from.

Sucky loser.

Congratulate our esteemed "colleagues" who put this on the Wreck List.

Oh, by the way.  We outnumber you now.  By a lot.  How's obscurity working out for ya?  You used to be able to dominate the Wreck List.  Now?  Not so much.

This is a site for Democrats who want to win.  You folks run the gamut, I won't claim to know how to pigeonhole you.  Some are honest and angry Democrats.  Some are nutjobs.  Some are Republicans in all likelihood.

You don't run this place anymore.  

The diarist may well have written this in good faith.  If that's true he's certainly got a minority viewpoint here, and an interesting perspective.  Those of you who actively Rec'ed this diary, however......

Your powers are waning.

It is what it is.

""They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?" ---- Barack Obama