Obama said McCain's campaign had been taken over by former aides to President George W. Bush who were clearly planning a negative campaign.
"They are very good at negative campaigns. They are not so good at governing," he said of McCain's team. "We have seen this movie before."
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This is the sort of response we need to hear, loud and clear and every day.
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"In no way do I think that John McCain's campaign was being racist. I think they are cynical," the Illinois senator told reporters in Cape Canaveral, Florida. "I think they want to distract people from talking about the real issues."
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Obama, 46, said race was just one of the factors the McCain campaign was using to stir up fears about him. "I don't come out of central casting, he said, listing his youth, name, birth in Hawaii and childhood in Indonesia as things voters might not be used to.
"What that means is that I'm sort of unfamiliar. People are still trying to get a fix on who I am, where I come from, what my values are," he said. "So what I think has been an approach of the McCain campaign is to say 'he's risky."'
Obama said McCain's campaign had been taken over by former aides to President George W. Bush who were clearly planning a negative campaign.
"They are very good at negative campaigns. They are not so good at governing," he said of McCain's team. "We have seen this movie before."