Campell Brown Calls McCain on Race Card

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Campell Brown Calls McCain on Race Card
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Thu, 10-09-2008 - 2:24am

Campbell echos Obama...ENOUGH! I concur.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/campbell-brown-blasts-mcc_n_133172.html

Campbell Brown Blasts McCain Campaign For "Race Baiting"

October 8, 2008 11:13 PM

In her "No Bias, No Bull" segment Wednesday night, Campbell Brown pleaded with the McCain campaign to stop what she referred to as "race baiting."

"It is getting very, very ugly," Brown said. "Tonight, we are cutting through the bull on the issue of race and this campaign."

Brown blasted McCain surrogates for injecting race Obama's race into the campaign narrative by invoking his middle name or referring to him as a terrorist, and she called on McCain to deliver a "much stronger denunciation than a campaign-generated paper statement":

Look, everybody, we all know that we are in unchartered territory here. Never before has there been an African-American presidential nominee. So without question, race is going to be part of the conversation. Race baiting doesn't have to be. And yet, it is happening in this campaign.

Twice this week, surrogates for Senator McCain had made a point of calling Senator Obama "Barack Hussein Obama." The implication here is clear. It's foreign sounding. It's Muslim sounding. It's un-American sounding. It's dangerous sounding.

What it is, is race baiting. And that is what is dangerous. Inciting crowds, encouraging their angry outbursts. McCain supporters shouting "treason" and "terrorist" about Obama at these rallies — that is dangerous.

Earlier in the campaign, McCain denounced this stuff. He strongly denounced it. And today, it requires a stronger response, a much stronger denunciation than a campaign-generated paper statement.

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 1:58am

Barry, "like you", had no choice in his first, middle, or last name.

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 1:59am
That Obama is paranoid? I agree. He's the only one (except for his lib supporters) who plays the race card. Imagine how terrified he must be of having his past exposed, that he's trying to tag the effort with "racism" in a feeble attempt to make the issue too hot for McCain. But not to worry...McCain won't be put off by such racist tactics and we'll all soon know all about Obama and his questionable relationships.
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Registered: 09-26-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 2:02am
Sure, voter fraud. They've already discovered thousands in Ohio and many others are popping up...probably soon in Nevada with the raids yesterday. Acorn, closely associated with Obama, seems to be at the heart of it.
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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 2:08am
Amen!
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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 6:22am

It is nearly incredulous that even Obama's lead in the polls can be taken by you as a shortcoming. I had initially thought you were someone who I could have a serious debate with, someone who could argue facts and respect differences, as that was the way our first few posts seemed to go. Then I read a few more of your posts and began to realize my error. Now you seal the error of my thinking by managing to imply that the mere fact that Obama is ahead in the polls can be taken as some sort of insult - perhaps because he is not ahead enough? It really boggles the mind with all of your accusations against anyone who is not for McCain, even for fellow republicans who just don't agree with you, how un-objective you can be on this particular issue.

"But what is really telling, is that in a "Dem" year with the economy in the tank your "wunderkind of hope and change" can barely...barely..."outpace" (for the moment) the "72 year old Washington insider who's just like Bush.""

Whether Obama will continue to 'outpace; the '72 year old insider' remains to be seen. Your reaction to this and any other post regarding Obama is now predictable. The only unknown now is just how far into the gutter the republican party will descend in order to savage their losing candidate.

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 8:26am
Hey, I just wanted you to hear it from the horses mouth.

   

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 8:28am
This is the United States.

   

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 8:29am
Sorry but the Obama campaign is the only one injecting race into this election.

   

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 9:21am

Hussein is an incredibly common name....Almost s common as Smith. Obama was given that middle name before the world ever heard of Saddam Hussein. One person that also had that name (that would have been familiar at the time Obama was born) was King Hussein of Jordon.

Certainly a man admired throughout the world....not in the same league as Saddam:

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On the human level, the numbers speak for King Hussein’s achievements. While in 1950, water, sanitation and electricity were available to only 10% of Jordanians, today these reach 99% of the population. In 1960 only 33% of Jordanians were literate, while by 1996, this number had climbed to 85.5%. In 1961, the average Jordanian received a daily intake of 2198 calories, and by 1992, this figure had increased by 37.5% to reach 3022 calories. UNICEF statistics show that between 1981 and 1991, Jordan achieved the world’s fastest annual rate of decline in infant mortality -from 70 deaths per 1000 births in 1981 to 37 per 1000 in 1991, a fall of over 47%. King Hussein always believed that Jordan’s people are its biggest asset, and throughout his reign he encouraged all -including the less fortunate, the disabled and the orphaned- to achieve more for themselves and their country.

King Hussein also struggled throughout his 47-year reign to promote peace in the Middle East. After the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, he was instrumental in drafting UNSC Resolution 242, which calls on Israel to withdraw from all the Arab lands it occupied in the 1967 war in exchange for peace. This resolution has served as the benchmark for all subsequent peace negotiations. In 1991, King Hussein played a pivotal role in convening the Madrid Peace Conference, and providing an "umbrella" for Palestinians to negotiate their future as part of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation. The 1994 Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel is a major step toward achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East.

While working towards Arab-Israeli peace, King Hussein also worked to resolve disputes between Arab states. During the 1990-91 Gulf Crisis, he exerted vigorous efforts to peacefully effect an Iraqi withdrawal and restore the sovereignty of Kuwait.

King Hussein always persevered in his pursuit of genuine Arab reconciliation, wherever a conflict arose between neighbors or within a country, such as his mediation in the Yemeni civil war. Furthermore, in almost every speech or forum His Majesty called for international humanitarian aid to relieve the people of Iraq from their daily suffering.

King Hussein’s commitment to democracy, civil liberties and human rights has helped pave the way in making Jordan a model state for the region. The kingdom is internationally recognized as having the most exemplary human rights record in the Middle East, while recent reforms have allowed Jordan to resume its irreversible drive to democratization. In 1990 King Hussein appointed a royal commission representing the entire spectrum of Jordanian political thought to draft a national charter. Today the National Charter, along with the Jordanian Constitution, serves as a guideline for democratic institutionalization and political pluralism in the country. In 1989, 1993 and 1997, Jordan held parliamentary elections which were accredited internationally as among the freest and fairest ever held in the Middle East.

http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/biography.html

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 2:18pm

>>> It is nearly incredulous that even Obama's lead in the polls can be taken by you as a shortcoming.

Obama's inexperience and questionable character are shortcomings...his lead in the polls just shows the stupidity of his followers.

>>> I had initially thought you were someone who I could have a serious debate with, someone who could argue facts and respect differences, as that was the way our first few posts seemed to go. Then I read a few more of your posts and began to realize my error.

A "serious debate"...with someone who won't vote for McCain because "I don't like Sarah Palin?" LOL! Are you kidding? I haven't heard a substantive argument on any issue since you started typing. This "I'm undecided" line is a schtick by someone who's already so obviously in the tank for Obama.

>>> Now you seal the error of my thinking by managing to imply that the mere fact that Obama is ahead in the polls can be taken as some sort of insult - perhaps because he is not ahead enough? It really boggles the mind with all of your accusations against anyone who is not for McCain, even for fellow republicans who just don't agree with you, how un-objective you can be on this particular issue.

My "accusations," as you call them, deal with issues, not the people who disagree...although I do question their intelligence if they've bought Obama's lies and propaganda. Personally...I'm not "un-objective." I have a very big stake in who the next President will be...and so do you. I've heard both sides and Obama is clearly a typical tax and spend Democrat with a SERIOUS Marxist ideology. I'm not a big fan of Marxism and as Obama has shown himself to be horribly inexperienced as well, my vote falls for McCain...no question.

< "But what is really telling, is that in a "Dem" year with the economy in the tank your "wunderkind of hope and change" can barely...barely..."outpace" (for the moment) the "72 year old Washington insider who's just like Bush.""

>>> Whether Obama will continue to 'outpace; the '72 year old insider' remains to be seen. Your reaction to this and any other post regarding Obama is now predictable.

I should think so...as are yours. LOL!

>>> The only unknown now is just how far into the gutter the republican party will descend in order to savage their losing candidate.

We're not trying to savage our candidate...we're trying to savage yours. LOL! And while you're no doubt upset by the revelations of Obama...it's not "gutter politics" to speak the truth about a candidate...and there's nothing that's been said by the McCain campaign that isn't the truth.