He didn't say now. He said, "What they're going to try to do..." Future, not present tense.
So no one has actually attacked him over his race, then? Ok.
So he's predicting he'll be attacked later on in the south... but he doesn't actually know or have proof?
So he's just talking out his ass?
It is almost certain racist ads will be run in the South. Do you think getting people to believe he was a muslim would have worked if he was white? How about the supposed tape with Michelle saying "whitey." Don't think that lie was a racist attempt to scare white people? I personally believe theReps have been doing so much screeching about this because they are frustrated that they can't attack him because he is black.
Then Obama needs to call them out on THOSE specific examples not criticise them for what he's
predicting - otherwise, it just looks like he's playing the race card.
Do I think they'll attack him cause he's black, supposedly Muslim, unpatriotic and that his wife hates America? Of course I do. A lot of that has already happened... but you bring up those specific examples, stop speaking in generalities and take the fight straight to the people that started them.
He's bungled his defense since the beginning. The fact that "being Muslim" was used to incriminate the man is disgusting... but he was too busy showing he
wasn't to make the
broader point that it doesn't even F*ING matter.
The point I'm trying to make is you can't go around saying, "they're gonna do this" when you have no proof that they have or will. But when they DO, call them out on it and expose your opponents for what they are.
Untill then, however, don't play the race card.
I don't want a house to house fight on this. So, I am going to address your point directly: "The point I'm trying to make is you can't go around saying, "they're gonna do this" when you have no proof that they have or will. But when they DO, call them out on it and expose your opponents for what they are."
With all due respect, you most certainly can warn against actions that, given history, are likely and
have happened in the case of the lie about Michelle and "whitey." It happened in the case of Harold Ford. It happened the case of McCain's "black baby." I see no reason at all to decide it won't happen again and only respond when it does. I don't see the necessity of citing specific cases, which would only bring more attention one point, which was only a fractional part of the larger point he was making. It is as perfectly legitimate to warn people not to believe any future lies and rumors and cases of race baiting, as it is about his name, as it is about his patriotism. There is no reason to belabor one issue, race, by citing examples, while not having to cite examples of attacks on his patriotism and his name.
