Playing cards with McCain

John McCain's campaign accused Barack Obama on Thursday of playing racial politics a day after the Democratic candidate predicted Republicans would try to scare voters by pointing out "he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

Obama "played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said in a statement. He called Obama's remarks "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

While Obama was meeting with victims of this summer's flooding here, his aides were initially dismissive of the McCain broadside. "We're not in the habit of reacting every time they put out a statement," spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

The first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, Obama argued while stumping in Missouri on Wednesday that President Bush and McCain will resort to scare tactics to maintain their hold on the White House because they have little else to offer voters.

In response to these accusations of Senator Obama playing racial politics, John McCain has launched his own ad campaign to show voters how much street cred the 71 year old Arizona Senator possesses.



This is just another sad and pathetic attempt for John McCain to try and take the spotlight away from Senator Obama. I find it interesting that none of the attacks by the McCain camp are sticking and Obama never seems to be phased by the ignorant statements that McCain is making.