The Pink Flamingo :: Down in the Gutter, Gutter So Low

“We understand it might be beneath a worldwide celebrity of Barack Obama’s magnitude to appear at town hall meetings alongside John McCain and directly answer questions from the American people, but we hope he’ll reconsider.” H/T Flopping Aces

With luck, this will be my last Obamassiah piece for the week.

We all knew it was coming, considering the way Hillary Clinton was treated, but still, it is a shock. It was only a matter of time before any criticism of Barack Obama would be labeled Racism. Well, that time has come. Barack Obama is going to win anyway possible, even if he has to create racial instability to do it. Maybe people are just getting tired of him. Maybe he isn't the messiah. Can he deal with it? David Gergen thinks the whole thing is "code" for John McCain getting away with calling Barack Obama "uppity". (can you believe it)? Is it possible voters will see Obama as the Racist?
Lindsey on Chris Wallace

"...GRAHAM: Absolutely, because in June, a month before — and he said, "And did I mention that they're going to say he's black?"

So to say that the Florida speech where he says, "They're going to scare you, I'm young, I'm inexperienced, I've got a funny name and did I mention he's black," well, John McCain doesn't have a racist bone in his body.

And there's no doubt in my mind that what Senator Obama is trying to suggest — that he's a victim of something.

And when he mentioned Bush and McCain have no real answers — if you really believe that you're running against a guy with no answers to America's challenges, why won't you debate him?

Why won't you go to a town hall, stand in front of normal people and answer their questions?

So the whole thing is very disturbing. Why won't you allow the American people to look under the hood and test your tires on your ideas, but you say your opponent has no ideas?

And you also suggest he's going to say the way he's going to get elected is to talk about your name, the way you look, and John McCain doesn't want to get elected on that. So the idea he's not interjecting race, quite frankly, is not credible.

We went through this in South Carolina. John has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh. On the right, they said John McCain had an illegitimate black daughter. Now, without John doing one thing, they're suggesting that Obama is a victim of John McCain interjecting, "He looks funny and sounds funny." We're not going to put up with this....Because Senator Obama did something no one has ever done that I know of — go overseas, and have a rally in front of 200,000 adoring fans, and talk like you're the embodiment of America, that — he is, in fact, living off celebrity, not ideas, and one of the campaign issues is credibility.

To say that Barack Obama did not intentionally inject the idea that he was going to be a victim of his name and his race is a lie. You do not go to Florida in June and say, "They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young. He's inexperienced. He's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black." Well, who the hell is "they"?

Later on in July, just a couple of days ago, three different times, he's going to say, "Bush," — he said, "Bush and McCain are going to make you afraid of me. He doesn't — he's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills."

To say that that's not trying to interject the idea that you're a victim of John McCain trying to make fun of your name and your racial background is a lie...."

We all know the reason Barack Obama is pulling the "racist" smear. He did it to Hillary Clinton when she was getting ready to pull ahead. Now he's doing it to John McCain.
From The Moderate Voice:

"...One fact: since these controversies burst on the scene McCain has pulled even with Obama in the Gallup Daily Tracking poll amid other indications that Obama’s candidacy is not gaining the kind of traction that many Democrats would wish at this early point in the campaign...."

THE POLLS
Obama's false tears are falling on deaf ears. The latest polls show us that McCain's new "racist" ads against Obama are far from "racist".

Rasmussen:

"...Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity just like them. Of those, just 22% say the ad was racist while 63% say it was not. However, Obama’s comment that his Republican opponent will try to scare people because Obama does not look like all the other presidents on dollar bills was seen as racist by 53%. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree...."

From The Politico

"...Barack Obama's campaign responded sharply to a new McCain webad depicting Obama as a parody of a biblical prophet.

"It’s downright sad that on a day when we learned that 51,000 Americans lost their jobs, a candidate for the presidency is spending all of his time and the powerful platform he has on these sorts of juvenile antics," said spokesman Hari Sevugan. "Senator McCain can keep telling everyone how ‘proud’ he is of these political stunts which even his Republican friends and advisors have called ‘childish’, but Barack Obama will continue talking about his plan to jumpstart our economy by giving working families $1,000 of immediate relief...."

H/T Chickenhawk Express
Memorandum

OFF BALANCE
We know Michelle Obama has been thrown under the bus, but interestingly she is still out there campaigning. The Obamassiah Media is simply not covering her appearences. If this keeps up, throwing people under the bus, I wonder when Barack will join them? The next question is simple. Why hasn't Obama responded to the McCain The One ad with one of his own? Is the Obama Campaign's response time a little off? If so, why?

UPDATE
Pink Flamingo reader Sally Vee just provided me with the photos of the BIG OBAMA RALLY in Central Park. This needs to be seen to be believed. - Trust me!