Chris Matthews: McCain Has Refused to Play the Race Card

[rubymcfadden]

mccain refused to play the race card? ''bullcrap'' on a debate, on national tv, you refuse to look at your oponent, ''that saying you're a noboby'' matter of fact he called obama ''that one'' HOW MANY MORE CARD DID HE NEEDED?

[mrspogadaeus]

WOW. Did Chris "Thrill up my leg" Matthews just COMPLIMENT John McCain? WOW.

[Boomer1947]

Richard Cranium

[stubbynuggs]

Chris Matthews openly said his job is to do everything he can to make this presidency successful. Wow. I could have sworn his job was to report the news. I guess that's only if the news hurts Republicans. I can see this will be an entertaining 4 years.

[luilun]

Chris Matthews you can remove Obama's cock from your mouth,election's over

[lezxotic]

Regarless of whether Prop 8 Passes, we've already taken over open your eyes. Stop fighting it you KNOW you're Gay.  We need to protect the children from YOU!

[VBackseatRomeoV]

Calm down about prop 8. It's going to get overturned in a few years anyway.

[lezxotic]

U don't even know who I'm responding 2 so mind your fucking business. I KNOW it's going to be challenged asshole.

[VBackseatRomeoV]

First off, I think I can easily see the discussion you've had with the other person.

Secondly, this is a public forum.

Third, you are disrespectful.

[lezxotic]

"First off, I think I can easily see the discussion you've had with the other person. Secondly, this is a public forum. Third, you are disrespectful."

Fourth: Who gives a shit?

[VBackseatRomeoV]

Fifth: You, because you responded.

[lezxotic]

Sixth: Stop acting like a fucking emotionally needy bitch and go away I don't want to play with you.

[lezxotic]

"You're the reason I voted yes on prop 8, we need to protect our children from people like you! "

Good for you. I'm happy that you took part in the politicL PROCESS BUT THAT STILL DOESN'T MAKE YOU STRAIGHT SO STOP FIGHTING THE FEELING IT'S CLEAR THAT YOUR GAY AND HOT FOR ME AND THAT IS WHY YOU'RE STALKING ME.

[lezxotic]

we've already taken over open your eyes.

[lezxotic]

Jesus Chri9st will you fucking Grow Up! I have NEVER encountered someone as stupid as you on YouTube. Your mother should have aborted you and married her lesbian lover, like she wanted to.

You just ramble between Republicans being racist and trying to get me angry by writing Vote Yes of Prop 8. How do you know I believe in gay marriage? Look what it has done to straight people, marriage has made you a bunch of dumbasses.

[lezxotic]

Look I am NOT interested in debating anything with you, get nthat through your head! I am NOT interested in you!

"Exotic" has never meant "N*gger" but I see your stupid ass doesn't pick up subleties.

If it is not a blatant insult then it flies right over your head. Shows the limits of your education.

Now I don't want an online relationship with you so after thIs I WILL NOT RESPOND TO ANY MORE OF YOUR COMMENTS, YOU ARE WASTING MY TIME!

[lezxotic]

WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO REPEAT THE SAME GODDAMN THING OVER AND OVER WHEN YOUR BIGOTED ASS WAS PROBABLY AT THOSE McCAIN/PALIN RALLIES CALLING OBAMA A MUSLIM.

[lezxotic]

""There going to say he has a funny name". "I don't look like the other guys on the currency". Checkmate! "

Look this isn't a fucking game asshole, Obama admitted the truth. The majority of Republicans play the race card with that "muslim" crap just look at the videos on You Tube alone! The McCain/Palin rallies!

Pat Buchanan calling Obama "exotic".

I don't want to play checkmate with your dumb ass! Stop WASTING MY TIME and fuck off.

[lezxotic]

"By the way, I just voted yes on prop 8 in California"

Of course you did what else would an uneducated homophobe do? A person who can't even articulate a cogent argument to support their position. Must be easy nto0 alwaysn rely on Knee jerk reactions.

I mean seriously I don't live in California and I already know you're an asshole so what do I care?

[lezxotic]

"I see you didn't defend Obama not to be a liar!"

OMG you are so stupid that YOU CAN'T EVEN ARTICULATE what I lied about. I don't even know how I am supposed to defend an intelligent honest man WHEN YOU DON'T GIVE FACTS SO GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY FACE YOU MOTHERFUCKING IDIOT.

[lezxotic]

Stop wasting my time. I have explained myself and haven't lied about anything. You are so stupid that you can't even tell me what I am lying about or how what I wrote proves that I am a liar so shut the fuck up asshole.

[Sanz2115]

Obama is dangerous....to everyone. From infants to the old. This is man feels that a women should not feel burden with a baby so therefore why not have an abortion. Especially a later term abortion. Obama real nice guy.

[obm1412]

You're absolutely wrong. Obama believes that women should have the right to CHOOSE (he's not imposing jack shit!!!). He stated MANY times that he was not a proponent of late term abortion UNLESS there was a real risk to the mother's health. What anti-choice people want is to IMPOSE their own beliefs on others and that's just unacceptable.

[lezxotic]

"Obama is dangerous....to everyone. From infants to the old."

How so? because he wants a woman to have a choice about her own bodyu? Youm guys are rerally scared that you are going to lose aren't you. So you're really ratcheting up the lies eh?

[julianhpike]

Republicans are not simply "going to lose", but be decimated. This election isn't just about the Executive Branch, but also the Legislative and State elections as well. Republican Ron Paul said in a presidential debate that unless the party reevalutes their polices that they were going down and cited the 2006 election as proof of the oncoming trend. Once again Dr. No will be proven right and the GOP is going to take a long hard look in the mirror or face the same fate as England's Conservatives

[Wizard364]

Just as with alcoholism once a corporate whore always a corporate whore. Isn't that right Chris?

[lezxotic]

What doi myou mean I can't handle the truth? I juust TOLD your DUMB Ass the truth stupid!

No One cares except you dumb ass Republicans. I told you the truth this is a 20 year old rumor that was NOT invented by Rev Wright. So what if he repeated it? I repeated it, many people have repeated it so what the fuck is there not to handle? Ur comment doesn't even make sense grow up!

[lezxotic]

"Looks like you can't handle the truth, checkmate cocksucker! "

Hey asshole READ The screenname jerk wad! I don't suck cock and I just signed back on so what the fuck are you ranting about moyherfucker!

[lezxotic]

"That doesn't mean Rev Wright didn't say it!"

Oh you stupid little bitch/bastard, SO WHAT HE SAID IT!

He's not the first one whose said it and he won't be the last. Shit I'VE said it so what?!

Look don't bother me you fucking simpleton. I am sick to death of stupid goddamn teenagers/oldsters contacting me with simple shit.

[lezxotic]

Listen I am old enough to remember when the Goddamn rumor started motherfucker. Just nbecause your young ignorant ass is just now hearing about it doesn't mean the rumor isn't twenty years old! See my ass Go watch it.

[lezxotic]

"The goverment invented AIDS to kill the black man." Is that what you call the truth?"

NOBAMA!"

Neither Barack Obama nor I SAID THE GOVERNMENT INVENTED AIDS TO KILL THE BLACK MAN so shut the fuck up.

Even Rev Wright did not invent that rumor so get your facts straight asshole! That rumor has been going on for over 20 years U dumb fuck! Don't reply to my comments I am tired of repeating the same things to moronic Republicans.

[medaa25]

Matthews always like Mccain... Mccain himself didn t say anything I can remember being too racial but his campaign surely did... Isn t it as good as?

[lezxotic]

"Obama is linked to Rev Wright!!!! Thats not playing the race card, it's telling the fucking truth!"

NO ONE CARES! Obama hasn't played any race card unlike the commentors on You Tube. As far as Rev. Wright is concerned, many people black and white agree with him, so what's your point? Can't stand hearing the truth?

OBAMA/BIDEN 08!

[jopaddy81]

I get the feeling that the two of them made a deal in the senate not to thread in certain areas.

They actually do get along contrary to popular beliefs

[Shryce]

McCain has refused to play the race card just as much as Obama has refused to play the senility card.

They were too bloody obvious and didn't need to be mentioned by either of them.

I can live with a black president, but not with a senile one so the choice for me is easy.

[jayraskin]

McCain opposed a national holiday for Martin Luther King. He found that he lost a lot of support and in the end, it did not help him. He knows that white racists make up only about 5% of the population, and they were all going to vote for him anyway, so there was no point going there. It would only alienate many voters. It was a practical matter, not one of principle.

[lezxotic]

"McCain knows that white racists make up only about 5% of the population, so there was no point going there. It would only alienate many voters. It was a practical matter, not one of principle."

Some fucking principle considering that he is airing Rev Wright commercials as we type.

[awesomerepublican]

In person maybe McCain has not brought up Wright as much as his campaign, but look at his ads, look at the GOP ads, listen to the conservative opinion-based radio, listen to all the republicans in office that support McCain, listen to the Palin rallies, read their hate signs.

You take all this in can anyone tell me that McCain has run an "honorable" campaign? That's laughable if it weren't so sad.

[hdtwoodsman]

What is Matthews talking about? There are Wright ads being broadcast continuously in swing states.

[GretchenDawntreader]

Chris Matthews has in the end been proven wrong in this instance, as over this weekend I started hearing reports that there are new robocalls about Wright.

So yes, McCain in the end, did go there. The last shred of dignity has dropped and he's out to make Obama into some sort of monster to try to scare his way into the Oval Office.

[lezxotic]

"as over this weekend I started hearing reports that there are new robocalls about Wright."

Commercials also.

[cindyfromfalls]

come on chris........

[stafax]

you read my comment completely wrong, read it again

[Wizard364]

This only goes to prove that ALL TV and radio hosts are in on the Neocon agenda and NONE are to be trusted.

[Wizard364]

I just saw a McCain ad on MSNBC that specifically attacks Obama for his association with Reverend Wright so that means what Matthews says in this clip is a COMPLETE AND TOTAL FUCKING LIE.

[publicgood]

Matthews said this before the Wright ad came out.

[Wizard364]

The McCain campaign is the dirtiest and most divisive in history. The fact that Chris Matthews is trying to defend McCain and is once again acting as lapdog to the GOP proves he is in fact a Neocon shill and has been all along.

[Ender1zero1]

Why would Mccain need to go to the race card, especially when the 527's and Palin used everything but the actual word. I didn't kick any little old ladies when I stood in line at the store do I get credit for that? Not doing something vile and disgusting doesn't earn respect and neither does standing with people who do it for your benefit.

[trayvonking7]

yea he hasnt called him a nigger.

just an untrustworthy, secret socialist anti-american in support of terror.

The racism just ALLOWS it 2 be believed.

[Wizard364]

The mere fact that the government agents patrolling YouTube are defending Chris Matthews proves that he's in on the Neocon agenda.

[someperson111]

Chris doesn't realize what is behind the term "spreading the wealth" the way McCain is using it.

[clecnche]

I'm not american, but please, do everything you can to get people to vote. I've been looking at this election closely since the primaries, and for the last few weeks I've spent my entire freetime studying it and fighting false smears. The fear and hate politics McPalin are using, would be a complete suicide over here. We like to do politics on the issues.

From a foreigner's researched point of view, not buying into either side's lies, please, vote Obama. It's what you, and the world needs.

[Wizard364]

Now at the very last minute the elements of the media that were supposedly "liberal" or "progressive" or whatever dig the knife in deep as they stab anyone against the Neocon agenda in the back as they have many times before. Make no mistake they're ALL pulling for McCain even if they pretended not to for a short time and this is just the beginning of the damage control the Neocon media will run on the dirty racist campaign McCain has run.

[Wizard364]

Once again Chris Matthews has proven himself to be just another Neocon shill just like every single other TV or radio host all acting in coordinated fashion to get McCain in The White House.

[barnabus]

"Uh, he hasn't explicitly played the race card, but he's played the Muslim card, the alien card, the communist card, the liar card, the elitist card, the European card...

The only reason he hasn't played the Race card outright is he knows he'll get slammed for it. America is a different place than it once was, and he needs to speak in code, which he's been doing."

Amen to that. The "race card" is coded in their Acorn smear and their share-the-wealth smear.

[silverandblack68]

That witch Palin sure hasn't hid her racist views.

[tealish]

Nah, she's not a witch. She just doesn't know anything.

[baseballnolie34]

Uh, he hasn't explicitly played the race card, but he's played the Muslim card, the alien card, the communist card, the liar card, the elitist card, the European card...

The only reason he hasn't played the Race card outright is he knows he'll get slammed for it. America is a different place than it once was, and he needs to speak in code, which he's been doing.

[PearlofRocketland]

lmfao so true

[Doifebag]

Love that Kelly. ;P

[onlywinter]

Chris Matthews is a racist! Only Obama would be able to play the card, and he clearly hasn't. He's the one being called a Muslim! Hussein! So while McCain hasn't directly called Obama Hussein, a terrorist, Muslim, etc. the Republican National Party sent my grandmother a $3 bill with Obama's face and his head turbaned. Comments on this faux $3 insinuated that Obama is a terrorist and even called him "Hussein." The Republican Party are bigots!

[butters226]

You're a fucking retard. What Chris said in the video is truth. "Has he played the race card?" is the guestion and the answer is NO. I love how you liberals twist everything around to your favor.

[loov1]

This is disgusting. It shows this mans mindset. We have eyes we can see what color he is, the "race card" would not be mentioned if Obama was white. For him to suggest that the "race card" is important shows me his own arrogance and racist views towards anyone who is not white.

[Georgoking]

If He didn't play the race card then he sure winked at it.

[PersonalJesus348]

he hasn't referred to race openly. I doubt saying "that one" had no racial motivation.

[prayitsnotobama]

Chris Matthews is a fuckin' retard.

[dralavant]

You're absolutely right Saaaaarrrraaahhh. If McCain wins, the entire world will laugh at us.

[FuckNGod]

oh all hail McCain he didn't say the N word. Come on people is that the only reason to vote for him ???

[rmsolom]

Message to Chris Matthews:

"Be sure not to count your chickens before they hatch." Republicans have shown us they are willing to do anything, and everything dirty, to win this campaign.

[saaaaarrrraaahhh]

please look at my userprofile to see an important link and facts about sarah palin! i can't post it here, sorry, but it is really important!

If mccain dies, sarah palin will be president!!!!!

if sarah palin becomes a vp, no country in the world will take america seriously! sarah palin is a joke!!!

obama is the only man for being president!´

[corbaman]

He refused to play the Rev Wright card? His campaign spokesman was just on Rick Sanchez talking about Rev Wright like 2 days ago. He's accused Obama of everything under the sun, even anti-semitism.

Sure, he hasn't said "the other guy is a n-word!", but his supporters sure have - on a regular basis.

[dralavant]

I don't believe McCain can win, but I do believe that he can walk away from this with his dignity still in tact. Just lose gracefully and explain that it's been a hard fight, but I tip my hat to President Barack Obama. That would help him walk out of this election with some respect left for him. Atleast I would respect him for it.

Vote Obama 08

[depletable]

Fuck that walking corpse. Fuck him right in his tight gray ass.

[dralavant]

LMAO!! Tight Gray Ass. ROFL!!!

[valgehiir]

depletable, I second that

[MurasakiYugata]

I think McCain gave up his dignity when he defended the robo-calls. Which is not to say he can't still earn it back. He seems like a good guy at heart. Just lost.

[jameswp266]

THis is it for america. they have to choose obama or they realy are screwed

[jkerouac02]

Seriously. Electing John McCain at this point in time could very well lead to the downfall of the US. He is hawk, & we don't need a hawk when we're in 2 wars already & problematic relations with Pakistan, Iran, Syria, & Russia. McCain supports the same neoliberal policies as Bush & doesn't have a solution to the economic crisis. He won't really invest what we need in alternative energy, which we will really regret when oil production declines & prices skyrocket.

Vote Obama/Biden.

[UGOTDAJACK]

Well said. I totally agree with you.

[stafax]

refused to play the race card.... hmmm...

"He says he wants to redistribute the wealth"

that's McCain's code worded version of

"He wants to take money from whites and give it to blacks"

[yelobmx]

thats right, he has not 'played' the race card he just threw the deck(unwrapped).

[chumashfalcon]

Even Matthews can see that Schmidt is a nazi skinhead.

Steve Schmidt is a confederate solider and we all know it. Expose that sick fuck.

[animeownage86]

The republican strategy and what therere supporters love is not making there point and making it appealing while being truthful but to discredit and insult your opponent now that's just not right I'm voting for who can help this country not who's better at flinging dirt. Thats why if all democrats let it roll off there shoulder and call them on it instead of throwing mud back then the democrats would always win and the republicans would be seen for what they really are clueless and backward.

[annarboriter]

The talkingheads simply must make believe that there is equivalency because the ruling class must maintain the illusion that there are choices in the process.

[WKaliber1]

McCain played the terrorist card, the socialist card, the unpatriotic card, the gender card in favor of palin and yet he is so clean....

[islanbatman]

It is apprent from the post here that they didn't see his latest ad this morning which is running in Ohio. J. Wright stars. Also in a mailer.

[terrence0258]

When Obama said that he wasn't going to take public financing he said that he didn't want to have to rely of 527's and that he wanted to control his message. John McCain's own campaign and many 527's that have been given the heads up by his campaign have run some of the most vile ads i have ever seen. One commercial basically called him a pervert who wanted to teach children about sex, one called a guy who has dedicated his life to service a celebrity no different than Paris Hilton.

[bachrub]

He's done everything but use the word nigger. Every other permutation of the race card has been played, replayed and packaged with a stick of gum.

[eric3141k]

chris is so modest.

[weezescorcho]

I'm very glad that McCain didn't play that particular card. He gets bonus points for that.

[booboomonger]

"You're chuckling"....referring to the lady...

[lipservice0]

why'd you cut it off there? i wanted to hear the answer

[tdubtu]

The "Code Word" Card maybe?

[dluviam]

You're chocolate??

Did Matthews actually say that?

[Peacenik]

how exactly would McCain play the race card anyway? "He's a socialist, possibly a Muslim... Oh, and did I mentioned he's Black!?"

[animeownage86]

These people disgust me it's like causing division and tearing this country apart is just one big game to them. While so many issues go unresolved, so many problems get worse and our lives become needlessly harder they like to fling insults filling the campaign trail with lies and baseless accusations all to play off on the paranoid and the deluded people who would believe anything as long as its insultive and news worthy.

[lezxotic]

Just this morning 11.02.08 there's an RNC Pac commercial linking Obama with Rev Wright so maybe McCain isn't directly playing the race card but he's tacitly allowing the race card to be played.

[hamsterpoop]

Why is this a good thing? It's like saying "I congratulate Obama for not killing babies". It's something any decent person would do, not something to be congratulated before.

And besides, McCain picked Palin so that she would play the card for him.

[HotLeper]

Well said poop. McCain has others doing it for him and even if he didn't, it's not something to be congratulated on.

[grenadianmed]

Yeah, Hillary played the race card, but John McCain, not so much.

McCain has instead played the terrorist card, communist card, and fear and paranoia card. But race card, not so much.

[GooseTarget]

Don't forget the anti-Christ card.

[animeownage86]

and here I thought Ms."War is a mission from god" was the antichrist "Yeah I'll do away with abortion and make your kids dumb as hell but I'll also mess up the planet spewing oil out of my ass while at the same time spreading the word of god with our ICMB's. because god loves mushroom clouds." Shes a joke shes a Christian extremist who twists the meaning of Christianity to do what she wants I love how thou shall not kill goes out the window for them when it comes to war.

[TheGodBen]

But that is playing the race card. If Hillary Clinton or John Edwards had won the nomination then something like the Bill Ayers connection wouldn't have been brought up.

But because Obama's father was Kenyan then there is something "exotic" about him so you can paint him as a terrorist supporter and ask dumb questions such as "Do we really know Barack Obama?"

They are playing the race card on a subconscious level.

[Waranle]

Bulshit, Mccain has already played the race card.. Rev Wright my ass. What was the woman in PA, saying a "big black man" attacked me?

THey played the race card, it just failedddddddddddd becouse people are paying atttention this election and they are fed up all these racist piece of shit.

[michaelrobert1974]

That deranged young woman had nothing to do with John McCain. John McCain really did not play the race card. Give him credit where it's due!

[dluviam]

michaelrobert1974:

"John McCain really did not play the race card. Give him credit where it's due!"

Mccain deserves credit for NOT playing the race card?

That would suggest that NOT playing the race card was a difficult thing to do.

Do you believe that?

Will you give Obama credit for not calling McCain a racist?

Both would be equally ridiculous.

[michaelrobert1974]

"That would suggest that NOT playing the race card was a difficult thing to do."

Yeah, it is difficult in a high stakes race like this one. All the conservative talk show hosts sure played the race card over and over. They also criticized John McCain for not playing the race card. John McCain stuck to his convictions the best he could. As I said, give the man credit for it!

[dluviam]

michaelrobert1974:

"Yeah, it is difficult in a high stakes race like this one...John McCain stuck to his convictions the best he could."

I know you'd like to make your point. But, you're are way off here.

Is it difficult for you to not use racial slurs? Not for me.

A candidate being respectful & not injecting race in a campaign is not going above & beyond.

It's not difficult if you're a decent person.

Did you expect McCain to inject race into this campaign?

What did you think of McCain?

[michaelrobert1974]

What I thought of McCain is that he was like the rest of the Republican presidential candidates who manage to tap into the racial fears of this country to secure a winning election and then apologise later for it..if at all! That's what I thought of McCain!

[michaelrobert1974]

BTW, he may win this election and I'd like to look at a president whose hands are relatively clean of dirty politics. I can not say the same of the Bush dynasty. McCain is misguided, but, I think he has a good heart. That goes far with me. I like John McCain even though I'm supporting Barack Obama.

[kem0sabe]

Ashley Todd isn't a part of the McCain campaign you idiot. She was some volunteer.

[LastPosterStanding]

She actually wasn't a volunteer, that was a lie from the campaign. She was a paid employee of the College Republican National Committee .

[kem0sabe]

And how exactly does that detail change anything? Her actions do not speak on behalf of the McCain campaign. Saying that what she did equates to McCain playing the race card is simply foolish and untrue.

[BionicleRaider]

obama '08

[pauLLLde]

he's so right