Ben Johnson,The White House Watch
The Democrats have unveiled Barack Obama’s re-election strategy. They’re going to insist all Republicans are —wait for it! —racists.
The most recent ad hominem attack comes after Mitt Romney released an advertisement underscoring Obama’s dismal economic record. Veteran Democratic strategist Tad Devine told the media last week the commercial is “clearly an attempt to bring back Rev. Wright and race.”
How precisely is that,Tad?
Devine claims the ad shows two scenes featuring only black people. One shows black women walking in the background,and another “appears to be a congregation of African-American people,” Devine claims. “In the first scene there are no white people at all,in the second…it is all African-Americans except possibly one person,[whose race] you can’t really tell.”
In fact,Devine assures us,“There is no other rational explanation for that scene other than to suggest a racial reference,and most likely invoke Jeremiah Wright.”
Other race-baiters have jumped on the bandwagon. Emory University professor Drew Westin claimed the spot’s racism is “subliminal,”as Romney’s scenes show him speaking to all-white crowds. “For Romney,there isn’t a black person in the background in any of the scenes he’s in,”Westin alleges. “It’s inconceivable that his team didn’t think to make sure there was at least some diversity in the crowds he was speaking to unless the goal was to juxtapose subliminal black people against white people for Romney.”
The only problem is these claims are thematically and factually fraudulent in the most obvious way. The ad is clearly about the nation’s deteriorating economy. Since this is a subject Obama’s handlers understandably wish to change,the Democrats predictably clutched the race card.
More to the point,both Devine and Westin’s comments are bald-faced lies.
The first “offending”scene may be seen in the video above at the 17-second mark. It lasts approximately 2.5 seconds. The second is a dizzying pan-shot of an indeterminate crowd at the 20-second mark that lasts less than one second. A video capture proves this scene includes at least one white person.
(There are “no white people”in this scene. Except the pale blonde woman. And possibly the woman in the foreground.)As to Westin’s allegations,in Romney’s speech at least one black woman is clearly visible behind him for five unbroken seconds,from:52 to:57. She appears to be sitting in front of a man of East Asian ethnicity.
Romney’s ad again features the requisite,coveted “diversity”during the voice-over,“I’m Mitt Romney,and I approve this message.”In its concluding scene,the background seems to contains a black woman and a black man in a hat.
Apparently to err is human,to lie Devine.
Devine’s comments raise an interesting question:What if the Obama campaign had released a 30-second ad about Jeremiah Wright? If Republicans should be considered “racist”for allegedly raising Obama’s membership in an all-black,Afro-centric church,how racist must Obama have been for belonging to it?
How racist is Obama for….
He is a racist and always has been and there is nothing he can do about but tell the truth as I have seen over and over again but you can't blame him because that was schooled in him all of his life.
The thing is he is that way because he hated what his white grandmother used to say about blacks over and over again so he grew to hate whites because of her but yet when she died he claimed to love her so much for what she did for him.
This man skin is black but he has white blood running through his veins and he hates the fact he does and he can't do anything about and I think that anger he feels is really directed to his mother and grandmother both being white.