Of course not. That is reserved for people of a different color.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
To paraphrase my response in the other thread you refer to, I don’t think that they are racist so much as culturally incompetent, and that failure to be saavy about and sensitive to cultural minefields is inexcusable in the enterprise which they are embarking on, and in this particular day and age.
Both McCain and Palin as individuals may be forgiven the occasional remark that may be misinterpreted, but their continued use of tactics that are intended to convert Obama into an “other” are the same that have been used for centuries to create an “us” vs. "them mentality that places one culture or individual as paternalistically/racially/spiritually/morally above the other.
To ignore this dynamic, to claim ignorance of it as a person is one thing, but the campaign is a finely honed machine running against the first ever African-American candidate in our history. To overlook, much less fail to condemn anything that could be constructed as racism is frankly inexcusable, dangerous, and just plain lazy.
My dear little man, I wasn’t aware I was being condescending to “black libertations”–please believe me that I don’t even know what such quaint people might be. I’m sure in your own befuddled way, you viewed fiscal policies as much more important to your own interests than the blatant racist policies as practiced by Republicans openly during the time that I (and you?) have had the vote. I apologize for exaggerating the time period I felt blacks should recognize the clear harm intended to them by racist Republicans–I was trying to be comical, and I’m not very good at that. In fact, it’s only since the late 1960s that Republicans were openly racist and Democrats were nearly uniformly progressive in their support of black people. Perhaps you’ve been voting for longer than I have, you may even be a genuine 160-year-old Lincoln Republican for all I know, and so your retrograde former alliances may have some merit.
No, it doesn’t count as a parallel because unfounded accusations of racism happen with mind-bogglilng frequency, and are clearly used to intimidate whites, whereas unsubstantiated accusations of terrorism don’t happen nearly as often, and don’t do nearly as much damage to the lives of ordinary people.
You’ve switched the present tense for the past tense. They worked on the board of a charity foundation together. You know damn well that that’s far short of the implications McCain’s people have tried to make.
McCain’s campaign a “finely honed machine?” Give me a break. At this point they’re running a 20-year-old jalopy against a Porsche.
I admit that whoever first raised the point that any race-based attacks would deliberately be vague, since that’s how racism is generally discussed in the U.S. anyway (unless the discussion is in an email) and people don’t need very strong hints. That some of the ads and remarks play on a fear of “the other,” I can believe.
Still, I see very little reason to believe McCain might call Obama “boy” during Wednesday’s debate.
Perhaps you could be bothered to make some sort of definite statement, rather than try to impress the rubes with faux erudition.
Ptooey. If McCain had a similar relationship with a Klansman, the lefties would make a very big deal out of it indeed. Trying to shrug off Obama’s connection with Ayers as somehow trivial or unimportant is profoundly dishonest.
I’m assuming this irony was unintentional.
Have you any idea how to engage in a civil adult discussion?
I think you’re thinking of the Clinton campaign. 
I don’t think anyone thinks this would happen. It would be way too overt. That doesn’t mean they don’t carry some responsibility for when overt racism is expressed on their behalf, though, as even McCain himselfseems to acknowledge(although not publicly enough for my taste).
Nope. The most ubiquitous form of racism today is anti-white racism, and the left routinely encourages and exploits it.
I don’t give a good damn what anybody would do, I’m interested in what is actually going on. This has been debated in who knows how many threads to this point, and I’m still hoping I can get some answers (yea or nay, or maybe, and why) to my questions before the inevitable hijacking.
You say “nope,” but then follow it with a sentence missing the irony entirely. When you say “no one goes around accusing white people of being terrorists at the drop of a hat,” why do you think that is? Why do you think painting Obama as a terrorist has particular resonance among McCain supporters?
Well, I thought about it, but I tried to make the sarcasm clear enough not to have to.
I’d like to see a cite for a single example of this.
You’re right. As a white person I am frequently the victim of anti-white racism.
Oh, no, wait. I’m not, because it actually doesn’t exist at all in most people’s daily lives, whereas for minorities racism is a frequent unwelcome visitor.
I’m white, and I can’t say I remember ever being accused of being a racist. Is this something that happens to you a lot?
Pride, foolish pride!
I’m sorry to say that in mixed neighborhoods like mine, it happens more than you might think.