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This may be one of the earliest times on record for a presidential campaign in the U.S. to turn so ugly and it is happening at almost lightening speed.
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain is saying Barack Obama is playing the race card while at the same time releasing commercials that suggest Obama is more celebrity flash than presidential substance.
Responding to the McCain ad which says Obama is a media “star” like Britney Spears or Paris Hilton but not nearly ready to live in the Oval Office, Obama said that McCain was trying to frighten potential voters by pointing out he had ” a funny name, and he doesn’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five dollar bills,” according to Reuters.
It didn’t take very long for McCain’s people to shoot back, “Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.”
This was supposed to be the race where both candidates stayed on the high road. Instead, it seems as if each believes the low road is the faster one to the White House!
Don’t count on this getting any better as the summer goes on. In fact, brace for what I predict will turn out to be one of the most brutal presidential campaigns in recent–and not so recent–U.S. history.
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