The latest article depicting the search for another Obama smear: Right-Wingers Mock Obama's "Ostentatiously Exotic" Pronunciation Of Pakistan C'mon, really? This is the biggest issue for conservatives? What exactly is the platform of the GOP, is it continued sleaze, innuendo, and mistruths that I have heard over the last few days, rather than any real information about issues? All of the covert racism, race baiting, the knowing smiles as the crowd is worked up into a lynch mob fever pitch? Have any details for me on the McCain fix for public education? Oh wait, I already know, according to his site there isn't one...for PUBLIC schools. What mistruths you ask? Let me help you out: Cindy McCain's cold blooded comment on Obama's voting on the bill she is speaking of: FactCheck.org called the McCain claim that Obama voted against troops "highly misleading."Obama has voted in favor of war-funding bills at least 10 times since becoming a U.S. senator. Using the same standard, McCain has supported cutting off funding to U.S. troops. To justify its claim, McCain's presidential campaign cites one vote that Obama cast against a funding bill, but that vote came after President Bush vetoed a version of the bill that included a date for withdrawal from Iraq. In fact, Republicans voted against the 2007 war-funding bill that Obama and other Democrats supported. McCain was absent for that vote; he urged Bush to veto the bill. "Based on those facts, it would be literally true to say that 'McCain urged a veto of funding for our troops,' " but in context misleading.
My question for Republicans: What if you had a Harvard graduate, with family values (that was your issue in the last election) who had genuine responses to the issues of education, the economy and the war in Iraq, instead of generalized solutions without any specifics (Yes, I read the McCain website on issues). What if you had a vice presidential candidate who did not see the role of vice president as a developing shadow of power and abhorred Cheney's law? And what if that presidential candidate was white? Who would you vote for? If race is your issue, did you forget the other half of Senator Obama's ethnicity? Because he is as Anglo/white as he is African American, if race is what you need to connect. When one considers that over 1/3 of perceived white America has some percentage of African blood coursing through their veins, can we not get past the issue of race and on to real issues that are facing this country?
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