Fear and Loathing

I don't think he's accusing all Republicans of anything, as opposed to McCain's allies.

At Right Wing Nuthouse, Rick Moran says the media are complicit:

"We expected it, of course. It is his greatest political weapon and he will use it again and again, shamelessly accusing the GOP of bringing up his race (even, as this proves, when they don't) in order to deflect criticism away from he and his wife for anything they say or any associations in their past.

"The press will let him get away with it because they are terrified of being accused of racism themselves.

"What makes Obama's race card such an effective weapon is that it is virtually impossible to accuse him of using it. He is the oppressed minority. You don't question oppressed minorities in this country. Anything they define as racism is accepted almost without question."

More on the perversion of justice at the Justice Department:

"The blocking of applicants with liberal credentials appeared to be a particular problem in the Justice Department's civil rights division, which has seen an exodus of career employees in recent years as the department has pursued a more conservative agenda in deciding what types of cases to bring.

"Applications that contained what were seen as 'leftist commentary' or 'buzz words' like environmental and social justice were often grounds for rejecting applicants, according to e-mails reviewed by the inspector general's office. Membership in liberal organizations like the American Constitution Society, Greenpeace, or the Poverty and Race Research Action Council were also seen as negative marks. Affiliation with the Federalist Society, a prominent conservative group, was viewed positively."

Of course.

Having lived through the media's Elian furor, I never thought I'd have to revisit it. But Politico is causing some buzz with this analysis:

"Eight years after the furor over the repatriation of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba possibly cost Al Gore the state of Florida in his 537-vote loss to George W. Bush, the international custody saga has returned to haunt another Democratic presidential nominee: Barack Obama. Having two top advisers who played key roles in the episode -- Greg Craig, who represented Gonzalez's father in Cuba, and Eric Holder, then a Clinton administration deputy attorney general when federal agents stormed the Miami home of Gonzalez's relatives to remove the then-6-year-old and return him to Cuba -- Obama now finds himself on the wrong side of an emotional issue in a battleground state.

"The wound reopened again last week after Gonzalez returned to the headlines in South Florida following a report in a Cuban communist youth newspaper that he has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union."