Obama Race Card

Paying Republicans a backhanded compliment, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday that the McCain campaign had succeeded in ...

What astounds me about the "race card" -- which either did or didn't get played in the presidential race recently -- is its thinness.

The Jed Report catches John McCain taking a very long pause when asked why he accused Barack Obama of 'playing the race card' -- and what he was refer...

Andrew Sullivan, Chris Bodenner, and Eli Sanders all note that the McCain campaign's strategy on race is to (a) play the race card and then (b) accuse...

Barack Obama responds to John McCain campaign charges that he's using the race card in an interview with the St. Petersburg Times: "I was in union,...

The accusation that blacks "play the race card" taps into working-class white resentment. It says that black people receive special treatment while the politically-correct crowd jumps all over you for pointing it out.

When Obama said he doesn't look like previous commanders-in-chief, I felt alternating waves of relief and anxiety. "Cat out of bag," I noted to self.

John McCain's campaign felt they had to respond to Barack Obama's comment about not looking like other presidents. Campaign manager Rick Davis said Ob...

Quietly, the storm over the hateful views expressed by Sen. Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has blown away the most insidious myth of...