While watching the national news one evening, the evening anchor stated that a strategy Hilary Clinton was propositioned to do (but declined); John McCain was giving serious thought to doing. What was it?
It was to attack Barack Obama and his patriotism! Basically they wanted to place doubt about how American was he really? The premise behind this blatant racism attack stems from Barack spending time in Indonesia as a youth. This "logic" that seems to be pushing this foolishness stems from the fact that the senator has an African sir name. Also, the explanation of why he was in Indonesia as a youth is because his mother married an Indonesian man and of course his mother was not going to abandon her son after having had married. What loving mother would?
This just shows that even in 2008 race is an issue that needs to be dealt with and it is sad that Barack's opponent can't seem to put together an honorable campaign without attacks on his heritage and commitment to this great nation of ours. To me it is a sign of desperation because he probably thought he was a shoo in for the White House.
This type of rhetoric also feeds into the fears of some misinformed Americans that if a man or woman of African descent is blessed with an ethnic name they are dangerous, militant, un-American and not to be trusted.
If this is the strategy that will be used then my advice to him (McCain) would be to fire his advisor who approached him with this and it more than likely is the same person who came up with the "brilliant" idea of giving away those tire gauges.
With a last name like McCain which is Irish, he should be highly suspect (remember Timoty mcVeigh and the Oklahoma tragedy). He could be a member of the IRA (Irish Republic Army); a terrorist organization that bombed innocent British civilians for almost 50 years. I want him to prove that he is not a terrorist.