MT: <<I guess some people have never heard of surrogates. McCain doesn't have to do the dirty work, there are plenty of his supporters to do it for him. >>
sirs: <<How convenient....yet again, lack of facts/proof, is proof positive.>>
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No, it isn't lack of fact or lack of proof that is proof positive. It is simple common sense which every individual (except, apparently, right-wing extremists) is blessed with. Why on earth would McCain want to dirty his hands with playing the race card himself or through his campaign staffers, when there are so many of his supporters ready, willing and able to do his work for him?
McCain had nothing to do with the racist attacks on Obama. Nothing that we will ever be able to prove, anyway. But the fact remains, that he is the kind of person who attracts these racist sleazeballs to his side, so that they will do what he no longer has to do. When your surrogates are willing to do it all for you, you don't have to lift a finger and you are able to say "I had nothing to do with it." But what is it about him that would draw all this racist sleazeball support?
Bottom line, the race card HAS been played, and it was played by the opponents of Obama. McCain methinks doth clearly protest too much.