The McCain campaign has set its sights on Pennsylvania, even though they trail wildly in the polls there. To them, it’s a turnkey state.
I’ve heard Pennslyvania described as “Pittsburgh in the west, Philadelphia in the east, and Alabama in between. As John Murtha regrettably noted, parts of the in-between are “redneck” and “racist”.
So when Hillary campaigned in that state, she sacrificed Geraldine Ferraro up, having her make some racist comments about Obama, and then resign her post. The comments were most assuredly aimed at the in-between area.
So I’m a little bit curious about Ashley Todd’s venture into infamy this week – her claims that she was attacked by a six-foot-four black man who carved a ‘B’ on her face. It’s the kind of thing that would play well to racist sentiments. When it happened, the McCain people were all over it, beating the police to the media. And it turns out that Todd is a McCain volunteer.
Politics can be seamy. Obviously this is only speculation, but the Todd incident struck me as timely, and as something that would have dovetailed nicely with McCain’s efforts to pull Pennsylvania out of the Obama column.
Addendum: Well, I’m not the only curious one. According to this Raw Story item, the McCain people knew far too much about this attack far too soon.
Addendum: Read what Josh Marshall has to say.
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Well the fact that she owned up to her lie the next day seems to go against the theory that it was somehow organized by the McCain campaign.
They did run with it, though, even though the police questioned the validity of it from the beginning… and it’s good to see their feet being held to the fire as a result.
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It was Willie Horton whodunit. The backwards ‘B’ stands for ‘Bush’ not ‘Barack.’ It’s all secret code. Pay attention to the small print.
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She didn’t own up to her lie so much as the police wore her down. I’d be checking bank accounts.
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