Black GOP Group (NBRA) Running Ads Calling Obama "Elitist".
As an AA women, I find this pathetic, and I'm embarassed for them. As one TPM commenter put it..
I can also tell you that if the Black Republicans confront Black owned radio stations with this ad they will have their asses kicked back to Africa!! Have these people had their heads in the sand for the past 6 months? Obama has about 95% of the Black vote during the Primary!! Attack Obama or Michelle and we will come in in droves come November to vote for Obama. We will stand back and allow anybody, black or white unfairly attack them.
What have the GOP done for Black people recently. Or poor people. They are nowhere near nominating a black person to be nominated for the Presidency!! They should be supporting Obama. Benedict Arnolds, all of them!!!!
A group called the National Black Republican Association -- which previously achieved minor infamy for some really inflammatory and historically-inaccurate radio ads in the Maryland Senate race -- has set a new goal: Turn African-American voters against Barack Obama.
Among the ads' more subtle pronouncements: "The Democratic Party is a racist party"; "Today racist Democrats will not vote for Obama, a black man"; "Obama is an arrogant elitist who turned his back on poor blacks and his own country"; "Look beyond Barack Obama's skin color and soaring rhetoric and you will see an arrogant, elitist millionaire"; and "Obama's mentor for 20-years was Rev. Jeremiah Wright who said innocent Americans deserved to die on September 11th."
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reports that the NBRA has unveiled a new set of radio ads that it plans to run in battleground states on black radio stations, but they haven't yet clarified exactly when or how big their buy will be. The ads manage the neat trick of sliming both the Democratic Party as racist and Obama as elitist.
It's unlikely that the NBRA could actually succeed at getting a great number of black voters to choose John McCain -- the ads don't even attempt to positively advocate on McCain's behalf. The ads are probably a last-ditch effort to suppress black enthusiasm for Obama's candidacy and dampen turnout.
