I haven't seen a diary referring back to this, but remember back on July 30th when Senator Obama said:
"So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Mr. Obama said Wednesday in Springfield, Mo., in remarks that he echoed throughout the day. "You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. That's essentially the argument they're making."
A firestorm in a furnace followed the next day with Slick Rick Davis:
"Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck," Rick Davis, Mr. McCain's campaign manager, said in a statement. "It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."
And remember this response McCain so angrily gave to John King when asked about Rick Davis's "race card" comment:
Well here we are about 9 weeks later and Obama was precisely correct. It's no surprise to most of us as we saw what Obama saw coming, but the pundits are acting like they didn't see this racist, Manchurian candidate smear campaign coming at all, and they are "dismayed and shocked" that Palin/McCain are doing exactly what Obama predicted.
Yet when he predicted it, he was out of line and it was acceptable to say that he was "playing the race card."
Nonsense. Obama saw back then that the only cards McCain had left to play were the hatred card and the smear card.
And now that Obama's prediction is playing itself out and failing miserably (other than dangerously fomenting violent hatred amongst some sectors of the GOP base), we can add Obama's prescient and strategic July comments to the good judgement and smart campaign tally.
President-elect Obama called the hatred early. It would be really nice to have the MSM remind its viewers and readers of this. Oh, and that Slick Rick Davis was playing the fake outrage card.