The Race Card Jar Overfloweth
By PaganPower on June 24, 2008 at 5:28 AM in Barack Obama, Democratic Party, John McCain, Race Card, Racism, Washington Post
Obama has wasted no time whatsoever making this election about race. At a recent fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida Obama stated that the Republicans are going to try to scare voters away from him by mentioning that he is black.
Obama at Florida fund-raiser says GOP will go after him because he is black.
We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
This patently offensive claim demonstrates exactly what we should expect from the Obama campaign and the Democratic party for the next several months. Tragically, it wasn’t always like this. Obama began his quest for the presidency wearing the mantle of the post racial candidate. He was supposed to be someone whose candidacy transcended the hate of the past.
But that was before Obama and his minions discovered how beneficial it was for him to become the racial candidate. After all, if Obama can make it seem as if people aren’t supporting him because of his race then “white guilt” will take over and people will vote for him out of common decency. Talk about your hoodwinking.
And the Washington Post aka The Obama Shiller weighed in supporting their candidate’s position.
3 in 10 Americans Admit to Race Bias
As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
And wouldn’t ya know it, the poll informs us that blacks feel that racial relations in the country are worse than before, now that Obama is the presumed candidate.
More than six in 10 African Americans now rate race relations as “not so good” or “poor,” while 53 percent of whites hold more positive views. Opinions are also divided along racial lines, though less so, on whether blacks face discrimination. There is more similarity on feelings of personal racial prejudice: Thirty percent of whites and 34 percent of blacks admit such sentiments.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I smell bullshit. Or is that donkeyshit? I agree that racial relations in this country have worsened. What they leave out is the fact that they have only begun getting worse since Obama began his campaign of race baiting. And the statistics, while troubling, really matter very little when it comes to explaining why Obama isn’t gaining traction.
Most people couldn’t care less about your name and your color, Senator Obama. They fear being lead by you because you have no substantive legislative record, you’re a chronic liar and, after explicitly stating that you choose your friends carefully, you have repeatedly and systematically made friends with people who hate this country.
This is the real reason so many people are opposed to Obama. But that doesn’t get attention in the press. It isn’t sensational and it doesn’t divide us. So that isn’t the message Obama tries to sell.
Way back in 2000, George W. Bush used racist claims about McCain to smear him. It’s more than a little ironic that the supposed agent of the new politics of hope resorts to these same tired, divisive politics to smear McCain too. But that is what we have come to expect from Obama. Words, just words.
The problem with those words is that Obama’s constant claims of racism only make the word itself meaningless. And thus when real racism occurs it is ignored or overlooked. Damn tragic if you ask me.
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1st. It appears after all these months the only person playing the race card is barry. The sad part of it is that people are falling for it with “white” guilt .He just doesn’t get touched he is teflon.
american sawbuck — the American people are sick of Obama the victim. We have enough problems to deal with without Obama’s perpetual moaning. He doesn’t give a damn about the rest of us however, we should all worry 24/7 about him. His statement the other day I don’t need voters I need checks says it all. I don’t care whether Obama is green with pink stripes–its not the color of his skin its the content of his character that turns me off.
I agree completely. What is sad is that Obama has set back race relations with his cynical ploy and that some AA’s can’t see that he doesn’t care one iota about their rights and well-being. The prime example of this is buying his mansion with the help of a man who owned tenements in Obama’s own district. What a guy!
A noble man will stand on his own merits proudly.
Sadly, this Pied Piper cries afoul when his modus operandi is exposed, and not all follow suit. Noble he is NOT. The kid that cried wolf too many times.
Fools will be fools.
And this was planned from the start. Saint Obama and Axelrod have too long a history of cynical opportunistic political moves to buy the idea that they only discovered the race card’s power during the primaries.
Of course there’s racial bias - 95% of Blacks support Obama.
Even Kerry said to vote for Obama because he’s a Black man.
Actually, I’d prefer Denzel - if race is the only criteria.
I’d actually prefer Tavis Smiley.
it’s scary and sad! I’ve just read that some fool in FLA just put up a semi sized confederate flag that has neighbors mad but they won’t lower it!
And on my regular “bumpersticker” tour (as I run errands) I am NOW seeing confederate flags on vehicles more than I’m seeing candidates bumper stickers!
I RARELY ever saw one of those nasty flags unless we drove through SC (honestly) Asheville is NOT Greenville. OR it didn’t USED to be.
argh
For me its never been about Race, but Barry always wants to draw attention to himself, so he uses it like a flag…
http://nocache.homestead.com/nativeamericansagainstobama/index.html
I think we should start playing the “incompetent boob” card.
Hi, I have a weird question or comment or something for yall to discuss. I was just doing research for my morning blog post and came across this at the BBC:
“Barack Obama’s cousin Raila Odingo (a radical Muslim African Arab) planned and executed the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Kenya’s Rift Valley.”
Which leads me to a question: If Obama is supposedly a Black American, why is Odingo, his cousin doing ethnic cleansing on native Africans? This only makes sense if Odingo is ethnically an Arab which would implies that Obama isn’t actually a Black American but an Arab American. I frankly don’t care what his ethnicity because I’ve had it with identity politics, but it brings up a larger question of why Obama would pose as an African American if he’s an Arab American. This just seems completely odd to me. This also leads me to question how he can play the race card and do black americans know this? I mean I’d read some where his family had been in the slave trade which would tie into this but it seems odd that black americans wouldn’t pick up on this.
The Obamas are Luos. The political party in power in Kenya are Kikuyus. Ethnic cleansing took place after the recent election on the part of both groups. (The recent election in which Barack Obama campaigned for Raila Odinga and sent Dick Morris to Kenya to advise the Odinga campaign).
Luos were forced out of Kikuyu areas where they had lived for many years and the same thing happened to Kikuyus living in Luo areas. It is called tribalism.
Isn’t it ironic that Michelle Obama hates Bill Clinton because he, in her opinion, allowed the genocide in Rwanda to happen? Couldn’t it be charged that her husband’s direct meddling in the Kenya election makes Obama responsible for the ethnic cleansing that took place afterwards? The hypocrisy reeks but is standard operating procedure for the Obama crowd.
Thanks for the info; I didn’t know all of that.
Female Barry is such an idiot. Susan Rice and Zbig Brezinski were instrumental in advising Bill Clinton to ignore the Rwanda genocide. Guess who they are advising now?
I have watched his new “I am American and so can you” ad three times. I don’t see one non-white face in it except for the picture of his organizing in Chicago. I would say that the intent is pretty clear. I wonder how AA audiences see it. Would be interesting …
Yes. And he implies his values are actually based on his “midwestern Kansas” white grandparents.
He never lived in Kansas.
His values are exemplified in his own CHOICES, and that means 20 years in Wright’s church and Chicago machine politics.
Does he think Americans are stupid?
mary — yes Obama thinks Americans are stupid–otherwise why would he be the nominee.
But WE THE PEOPLE didn’t choose Obamarrhoid to be our candidate…the DNC did. So, WE really aren’t stupid, the DC elites are.:)
How did the DNC “choose” Senator Obama?
Even had they given Hillary 100% it still wouldn’t have been enough. They were nice to give her any, or either candidate any for that matter, after the agreed upon rules were broken. What’s so hard for you people to understand about that??! It’s like a non-stop fucking epidsode of the Twilight Zone.
You are just plain stupid — which means you have had too much of Obama koolaid
Stupid Gen X — do some research.
Hillary wasn’t “given” anything –
Hillary Clinton — WON — W O N —
She has the popular vote and she has won the electoral vote in the states necessary to WIN the General Election.
Barry — BOBO — lost all the major states. He can only win caucus states where he sent idiots like you to steal the votes.
Anyway — Barry Barky will LOSE — and thus he will join the ranks of other losers — Kerry, Gore, Dukakis etc. Dodd, Edwards etc.
YOU Gen X are a loser for supporting a lying, bull shit artist named Barry.
Even his name is made up — who knows what his real name is on his real birth certificate.
The majority of Americans are either stupid or insane, otherwise Obama would have been gone long ago.
You are correct! Fabricated values, convieniently presented in an enticing package, to the poorly informed and unwilling to vet masses, with ostrich-like heads stuck in the sand - speak highly to the followers.
“My momma told me:” Actions speak louder than words.
I don’t think he cares what anybody thinks or needs, as long as he gets the money, the power, and the votes.
He has done this all along. The only difference now is that he is actually saying it and not one of his cronies.
OMG! Kos ((and moveon.org) are ‘upset’ about Obama LMAO! “Not much choice” see the link
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/moveon-kos-impotent-frustration-karma-is-a-bitch/
Poor whiny progressives. Karma’s a bi**h sometimes.
At least the truth about Nobama is breaking through.
Well, they have no one to blame but themselves. WE WARNED THEM! Then they called us every name in the book. ASSHOLES.
yea, the moveon crowd would be loving them some “folk hero” hillary right now. LOL!!!
Obama is aware he can play the race card and get away with it. He has already been exposed - sitting in a racist black liberation theology church for 20 years, having announced Wright, Phleger, and Meeks as he 3 spiritual advisors, his own book with anti-white statements, and his wife’s thesis with racial rubbish.
None of Obama’s racist attitudes or his mentors have stuck. He is beating McCain and the MSM, blacks, and guilty whites still enthusiastically support him.
Obama is a slick Chicago politican. We saw how easily he switched on public funds because it was to his advantage to do so. He will throw anyone under the bus if he feels that will suit him - even if he praises them the day before and says he could never disown them.
he has fooled many, it is a shame. He is a good salesman. He changes his mind to suit whoever he is speaking to, this won’t change….
http://nocache.homestead.com/nativeamericansagainstobama/index.html
Bottom line is that no one running for president, should use a victim line to garner support. A President is going to need to have more resilence than that. Do the soldiers on the front line scream, “I’m not going in there, they hate me cause I’m American.” This shows his character. If he makes it into office, what excuses will he make on why he can’t accomplish things? What solutions will he come up with? I suggest, that when things really start to get tought, he will throw in the towel, just like he is doing now. Attributing his lack of fortitude to something that he can not control. So rather than working around it, he gives in and calls foul. Not a very good sign of leadership, and definately not something I look for in a President.
I couldn’t agree more
I don’t see Obama coming up with any solutions all he does is criticize Bush and McCain. He has repeatedly said there are no good solutions in Iraq. If Obama does not have any good solutions then he needs to drop out.
I imagine if Obama gets elected he will continue to blame Bush when anything goes wrong.
I think his plan is to get a list of every non-supporter and blame one of us daily. Hell, he could probably blame one of us every hour and still have names left over at the end of a 4 year term…
No, he’ll fall in line and blame either Bill or Hillary.
I agree - look at the Hillary crocodile tears during the election, or the I was a War Prisoner, vote for me ad of McCain.
What would we expect during difficult trade negotiations? Hillary bursting in to tears or McCain suffering some rage inspired by post traumatic stress disorder, where he calls his wife a c*nt again? Oh well that is why Obama will be President in January 09.
I agree, UK, or a president who instead of taking responsibility for his/her vote to authorize the invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation blames it on “faulty intelligence” and a crazed cowboy’s “good word” that my then 7 year old knew was bullshit??!!?? If they gave a bonafide madman their vote, makes me shiver to think what diabolical thing they’d do in the driver’s seat.
Oh, and by the way, doesn’t he sound just a wee bit like his spiritual mentor Rev. Wright.
When the Wright video first appeared, I thought Obama should have come out and said Racism is wrong - no matter who is doing it. Instead he tried to justify it by giving examples of white racism. WTF? This to me is not the action of a man who wants to improve race relations.
As a side note, my Mother-in-law is a Bajan New Yorker and said at the time that Black America should stop representing itself publicly through all these religious figures.
“There was a time when the only leadership roles for Black people were through Church and Religion, this is no longer the case. They should be representing themselves as equally able Americans.”
I was disappointed in Obama’s explanations of his knowledge of the Wright rantings once it broke. He kept tripping over himself. The speech was worse, I expected an explanation of why he joined a black liberation theology church, exactly what he heard and why he did not oppose it, an apology, and him dropping out of the race. Instead he blamed everyone else while he hovered above it all.
Well apparently DEMOCRATS are stupid, because this pathetically inept pile of shit is to all appearances gonna be the nominee. Won’t it be a Bizzaro world turn of events when the DEMOCRATS will run all of the race adds and the repugnantklan will run all the adds talking about issues and characters?!? I guess if you live long enough you’ll see everything!!!
no doubt!
it’s bizzaro world
Bizzaro world. Yes, that explains it all. Thanks.
What did MO mean by “the AA community will wake up”?
They are the bigots. They played the race card on the Clinton’s immediately. The Clinton’s are not racists - the Obama camp is.
F*ck them. Get them out of here.
I was surprised how the Democratics knocked the Clintons and kept on jumping over endorsing Obama. After Wright, Ayers, Meeks, and Phlefer fell out of Obama’s closet they had good reasons to dump Obama. I was told numerous times that they did not want to upset the black base. Anyone outside the black base is expected to just fall in line.
Al Sharpton threatened to take his Minions to the streets of Denver in August if Obamarrhoid wasn’t anointed as the Dem nominee. The DC elites fell for it…… Freakin’ spineless cowards that they are.
And don’t forget Donna Brazile’s comment regarding the nomination - if he didn’t get it, “There will be blood.”
Posted this a while ago, but it still has some punch, given his latest race baiting:
http://theheyjudeblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/will-real-racist-please-stand-up-barack.html
I think she meant that they should “wake up and vote for Barrak because he’s black”…..
http://nocache.homestead.com/nativeamericansagainstobama/index.html
Obama can play the race card and get away with it as far as the MSM go, but the vast majority of the American people cannot be manipulated with it. Anyone who feels so guilty about his/her own racist feelings or who feels sorry for BO is already in his sway. It just shows how desperate he has become that he is already trying to pander with it, saying to voters that the GOP will tell them he is black–something they can clearly see, along with the fact that he trucks with white-hating race-baiters and anti-American terrorists. And he has certainly made race relations worse. You can listen to the call-in shows and hear the animosity on both sides. I, as a white, am irked by black callers who declare that he will surely win because “it’s our time”. Their assurance sometimes sounds like a threat. And just how is he supposed to win if about 1/3 of Americans have reservations about race–and that’s the ones who would admit it! Believe me, these people cannot be “guilted” into voting for BO simply because he’s black!
Obama is absolutely right. The wingnuts are already gearing up to run Muslim smear ads against him, and FOX News is busy painting Michelle Obama as a terrorist because of a fist bump. That’s because they, like Larry and his team of PUMA Loser All-Stars, have nothing on Obama.
The guy you swear can’t win an election has already handily dispatched the once-fabled Clinton machine, and now he’s on to a 40+ state victory in November. It will be such a joyous occasion, and I will celebrate by revisiting this site and rubbing all of your noses in your abject stupidity.
Hyperbole……thy name is Obama and his supporters.
What blather. Barf.
Unless, of course, Doom V is released that day…
lol lol!!!!!!! Make it so!
#1
He didn’t dispatch her. She had about equal pledged delegates. And since when is an election about “taking out the clintons”. You are so full of hate, that you ooze it from your very being. You aren’t voting for Obama, you are voting against Hillary. You didn’t give one good reason WHY you hate the clintons so much. YOU JUST HATE.
Doesn’t matter.
Obama won’t win November based on hating the Clintons.
He’ll have to stand on his own merit, and win her voters on his stands on issues, not on hate.
His supporters haven’t figured that out yet.
Exactly, and I hate to say this, but Hillary needs to get out of there and let him sink. She is playing the “fool’s advocate”. He is using her as a reminder to all his supporters that this elections was about their hate for Hillary. Everytime she shows her face at a rally, they will boo her, I promise you. This speech that they are giving this week, watch it. I bet you a million dollars that you will hear boos when she gets up to speak. Why anyone would subject themselves to that, is beyond me.
Every boo from Obama’s audience drives another Democrat or Independent to McCain.
Hide and watch.
Because she is a POLITICIAN, Darryl, who has thrown her full support behind the other politician who defeated her. How do you all reconcile your blind devotion to Hillary with her public support of a man you detest down to the last atom on your pinky toe??! It MUST REALLY MAKE YOU UPSET. What’s that? Oh, the whole thing’s a PUT ON FOR HER OWN POLITICAL GAIN??!!?? GASP! You mean she doesn’t REALLY ENDORSE HIM??!!!? so much for integrity, huh? LOL
Plus once again, no reasons why we should vote for Obama beyond the hopey, changey bullshit.
“dispatched the Clinton machine” “clinched”
i wonder why they are using all these euphemisms? Ah, yes, because “WON” would be incorrect seeing that he got less votes and less pledged delegates than Hillary
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/a-stolen-election/
According to Obama, that would leave 17 more…
Make that 18 more, plus Kenya…
LMAO!
Like every other Obama achievement, he secured the nomination through the “Chicago way”, by gaming the system, playing the race card, having the DNC and the media manipulating the rules and the “topography” of the primary season (and watching his “six”.) Without the media at his back and the DNC actively bending (breaking) and manipulating the rules, he would have been one of the first candidates knocked out of the race. Obama rose through the system of Chicago politics, and that alone is sufficient reason to vote for someone else. You just don’t get where he has gone in Chicago politics by being a Boy Scout. Even the most diligent ward worker can only rise so far in the “Combine” through that kind of hard work. Like the mob, you must earn your bones. Obama is a “made man” in Chicago politics, and many of his supporters just don’t understand what that entails. His supporters and his lap dogs in the press continue to advance the lie that the Rezko trial had nothing to do with Obama, and though he was “mentioned” during the trial, that he was not connected with any wrongdoing. That is 100% unadorned BULLSHIT. The Rezko trial was based on the “pay to play” rules of the “combine”, and Governor Blagojevich used Obama’s State Senate position to advance the new law necessary to stack the various board with Rezko’s pals who would assure that anyone wanting to do business with the State of Illinois would have to come before one of these boards and make substantial payoffs to secure board approvals of their projects. While Blagojevich may be in jeopardy as a result of the shennanigans on those boards, the boards could not have been stacked with Rezko’s lackies without Obama’s help and full participation and cooperation.
Thanks for the warning.
Are you still whining about FOX because they are not in the tank for Obama like the other stations are. Typical Obama supporter, agrees with free speech as long as it is pro-Obama. Obama has a lot more in common with Hussein other than his name.
What is it about: Obama has nothing to offer, that you do not understand?
Your ranting would be so much more meaningful if you would add substance like:
Americans will support him because he defends defeating FISA and supporting their rights to privacy.
Americans will support him because he believes that the best way to ensure that Americans get back to work is to keep jobs in America. That means revisitng NAFTA and making changes that work for AMERICANS.
Americans will support him because he believes that the best way to change the broken electoral system in this country is not to desert it but to work from within its shattered system and point out its defincies.
He instead has DESERTED each of these positions that roped liberals, kids and elites into voting for him and clearing the field of the TRUE DEMOCRAT in the race. He is a FRAUD, a PHONEY, a THROW BACK to the WORST of the old machine with the twist the new CHICAGO STYLE OF TAKE NO PRISONERS style. You, he, and all of the people who support him deserve the THRASHING that you will see in November. The only ones profitting here are the MEDIA and AXELROD who will take every last DIME of the money being lavished on this WALKING FANTASY of CONTRADICTIONS and LIES to try to FOIST him on the AMERICAN ELECTORATE. Well. WE GET IT. And we aren’t buying.
Now. Crawl back to your parent’s basement and make sure it is nice and secure. It is going to be a bumpy election season and NOTHING is off limits. Barck started this.
HOLY SHIT….was that Kool-Aid laced with LSD? Are you fucking nuts? Obamarrhoid will be lucky to win Illinois, you fool.
Drink some more Kool-Aid and start your Meds now because you’re going to need them should Obamarrhoid be allowed to steal the nomination. The GOP will DESTROY him and I, for one, will enjoy every damn minute of it. I’ve got my popcorn ready.
Obama must be really proud for the first time in his adult life of the way he has used the race card to “guilt trap’ white folks.
Obama has with his campaign painted the Clintons as racist when the whole world knows they are not.
If Obama had been a white man belonging to a racists church for 20 years, was friends with a known terrorists, and anti americans..
he would have never been elected to the state senate, let alone the Us senate.
I will never vote for this lying, racist, anti american man.
4 years of McCain looks better all the time, at least we know McCain loves this country and will try his best to protect us.
yea, he “dispatched” them through cheating.
55 votes for “uncommitted”, “exit polls”, 4 delegates taken from Hillary…
3 states not penalized at all, while 2 states were penalized above and BEYOND written DNC roolz.
Shut your face, you’re a moron.
40+ plus states???? WOW. You must have trouble counting because there is no way Obama can win that many (there are still Republican left in this country you know).
oh, another baby possum scout working on his vero possum badge for the Grand Possum.
“Nothing on stinky”? Where the hell have you been Rip van Winkle?
stinky is a living breathing pile of contradictions, a total complete fraud.
Wake up and take a close look at your clown.
I think what he’s really afraid of is that the GOP won’t say he’s black, so he needed to say it for them.
They won’t need to mention “Black” or “Muslim.”
They’ll run on his inexperience, his large government programs requiring huge tax increases, his lack of any executive experience actually balancing a budget, his own flip-flops about NAFTA, FISA, and Iraq.
It’s only the Obama campaign whining about racism.
The GOP is focusing on his naivete and his flimsy resume.
As they should.
EXACTLY.
I think the GOP knows he’s NOT African-American. They know he’s really Arab-American. That’s why Zogby is so “fond” of him. The GOP is loaded with info on that idiot and they aren’t afraid to use it.
Every time a state with large black population primary was upcoming, B0 would Claim the Clintons are reminding voters he was black - official campaign memo to prove
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/trashing-clinton-the-b0-official-campaign-strategy/
The media was executing the memo point by point - then the campaign was echoing the media - the perfect Wurlitzer!
In NYC, we call what he did to the Clintons “Sharptonizing”
And for those who think it’s just campaigning stuff, his silence when entire states were labeled “racist” speaks volumes. Gene Lyons nails this:
“Many citizens who
would vote for an African American without a second thought are put off
by a candidate who makes race the central issue of his campaign. Winning
tactic, losing strategy.
The race memo link has been deleted from the Huffington Post Article. Does anyone have a link to the actual memo?
Censorship and Propaganda. From the far left no less. Who would have “thunk” it.
Even when they take it down, Google has it. It can’t be purged totally … you might try that.
I did google, but every return has an article linking to the huffington post article.
Anyone have a link to the real memo?
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-blackvote23-2008jun23,0,4641688.story
Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/12/obama-camps-memo-on-clin_n_81205.html
???? I had no problem getting it ….
I fear that we here are the only people who see barry for the liar and horror he is. The press will not touch his racism or anything negative about him. He is now getting the womens’ vote from Hillary according to FOX this morning. He is definitely not being challenged by the Republicans and I am loosing hope of ever getting rid of him…It is so sad. Where are the republican 527’s (that are so famous)…when you really need them????
They are waiting till October. Just like they did in the last election.
Don’t be fooled by the press. They do this every election. They seem to be in the tank for the Liberals, then do a 180 right before the election. Happens EVERY election. Although, this election, the Presumtive Nominee is in my opinion NOT a democrat at all. He has reversed almost every role now, taking side with Republicans. NAFTA, Amnesty for the Telecom. industry, Not pulling the troops out. Have you notice the pattern here. Seems to me, he is slowly turning into a Republican.
to use the 527, costs money
BO is free advertising with his gaffe on a daily basis. they r waiting for the right moment. till then BO does a good job against himself.
At the rate Obama’s going, the GOP should be able to save some serious cash this year.
American Sawbuck - don’t pay attention to the Obamatots. They’re never going to change, even after he loses. Watch the rest of America. Their reactions to the man behind the clear shower curtain are not good. The MSM can say what they want; when it comes to the privacy of the voting booth I am confident that this man scares far more people than he inspires.
I see McCain as a punching bag. Obama hammers him and McCain says he respects Obama and Obama does not share Wright’s views. McCain will not win the election with that approach, he continues to drop in the polls. People apparently are not voting for McCain because he is a nice guy.