Rasmussen Reports found a majority of voters (53%), see Obama’s comments that he does not look like all the other presidents on dollar bills as racist.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters have seen news coverage of Senator McCain’s “Celeb” ad, which compares the Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests the Democrats’ presumptuous nominee is little more than a widely recognized media concoction.
There is of course both a racial and partisan divide about the ad:
Most African-American voters—58%–saw the McCain ad as racist. Just 18% of white voters and 14% of all other voters shared that view.As for Obama’s comment, 53% of white voters saw it as racist, as did 44% of African-Americans and 61% of all other voters.
There were also significant partisan divides. Democrats were evenly divided as to whether the McCain commercial was racist, and they were also evenly divided on the Obama comment. Republicans, by an 87% to 4% margin, rejected the notion that the McCain campaign ad was racist. But, by a 67% to 26% margin, GOP voters believe that Obama’s comment was racist.
Unaffiliated voters, by a five-to-one margin, said the McCain ad was not racist. By a much narrower 50% to 38% margin, unaffiliateds viewed Obama’s comment as racist.
Remember, Obama started this meme himself. Also remember that after initially denying the remark was a reference to Obama’s race, Obama’s campaign admitted that the Obama was referring to his ethnic background.

Yes, Obama is definitely a RACIST
OCA Monday, August 4th at 9:56AM EDT (link)*Well written and worth the time reading it. We whole heartedly agree and will do everything on part to advance this to the public.
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Umm
Jason_Wolf Monday, August 4th at 10:18AM EDT (link)Actually, McCain “started this meme”, with an ad featuring Barack Obama on a hundred dollar bill, Mt Rushmore, etc.
McCain Ad
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blooch Monday, August 4th at 10:34AM EDT (link)Yes. Right down to the Remedial English grammar.
“I have to admit that Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a smart man. He was, in many ways, a psychologist.”–drealoth
Umm, no.
Dan Spencer Monday, August 4th at 10:39AM EDT (link)Obama started it at the December 2004 Gridiron dinner.
California Yankee
Sorry, no more bang for your buck
blooch Monday, August 4th at 10:40AM EDT (link)with Jason inflation…but go ahead and try to stretch you dollar.
At least you provided a link.
“I have to admit that Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a smart man. He was, in many ways, a psychologist.”–drealoth
Nice try, Jaon_Wolf.
Moe Lane Monday, August 4th at 10:41AM EDT (link)But when a candidate says things like:
…that’s an open invitation to solicit a response like McCain’s.
Moe
PS: “Other,” forsooth.
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Worse than racist.
Steph C Monday, August 4th at 1:00PM EDT (link)He has megalomaniacal tendencies and they’re starting to show through the cracks in the facade his handlers have created for him.
What makes him believe he rates being put on a 1 or 5 dollar bill? Apparently he does believe it since he brought it up.
I found that more offensive than his comment alluding to race.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Two separate silly "issues"
Jason_Wolf Monday, August 4th at 2:35PM EDT (link)“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” then Senator-elect Obama said at a Gridiron dinner in December, 2004. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”
Obama’s comment above has nothing to do with the “dollar bill” issue, which McCain initiated with ad.
The unpopularity of Republican ideas at this point seems to be forcing McCain into making this election revolve around petty personality-based non-issues. Which judging from recent history, he may get away with.
petty personality based non-issues?
jdub19 Monday, August 4th at 2:44PM EDT (link)nice spin…we call those
“serious character flaws”
” Got to love the Lord for making things like that.”
Morally Compromised
Got it. White girls, big green girls, phallic monuments,
blooch Monday, August 4th at 3:30PM EDT (link)big rock heads and money are proscribed images in any McCain campaign ad, as thay will invite charges of racism.
I’m guessing “emasculation of the black man” for the Statue of Liberty photoshopping, but you’ll have to clue me in on the racial significance of Mt. Rushmore.
Don’t worry about the phallic monuments. Bob Herbert cleared that up for me:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/3677250#26008764
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Surely you don't expect him to admit...
Moe Lane Monday, August 4th at 3:34PM EDT (link)…that his beloved candidate was wrong, do you?
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