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Thursday, July 31, 2008 06:33 PM
Original article: Who's playing the race card?

Uppity

I consider the whole "arrogant/presumptuous" charge by McCain to be a racist wolfwhistle. When has supposed (or real) arrogance ever been a major campaign theme? Racists hear "uppity n-----" when they hear those words applied to Obama. So yeah, I think McCain's campaign has played the race card.

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