During a swing through Missouri this week, Sen. Obama said:
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. 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.
And now McCain is trying to claim that Sen. Obama is playing "the race card". Phooey!
It was just several weeks ago that McSame thought it was quite a good idea to mock Sen. Obama in his very own ad by placing him on a hundred bill.
And feel free to view the McCain ad mocking Sen. Obama on YouTube as embedded right here:
Transcript for the hearing impaired community:
NARRATOR: As Barack Obama talks about change let’s take a look at what he’s changed so far.
He’s changed the Presidential Seal.
What will he change next?
The Statue of Liberty?
Mt. Rushmore?
The $100 bill?
For Barack Obama, it’s change you can make in Photoshop
TEXT: Paid for by John McCain 2008
Here's a link to the ad from the McCain site itself (I didn't want to give them the hits, so I'm just putting it as a link)
And it probably surprises no one that the Washington Post was quite OK with it.