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The McCain-Palin campaign is taking aim at Gov. David Paterson for his suggestion this morning that Republicans are making a "racist appeal" in their denegration of Barack Obama's days as a community organizer.
"I think that there are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign," Paterson said during the Crain's Business Forum breakfast.
"...I think the Republican party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life - which I noticed they did at the Republican convention -- a 'community organizer.'
They kept saying it, they kept laughing, like what does this mean? It means that an individual who could have gone to Wall Street and made a lot of money and then run for office because he could buy media time chose to go back and work in programs in a neighborhood where he thought he could make a difference and became an elected official based on his involvement right in his own community."
McCain-Palin spokesman Peter Feldman fired back, calling Paterson's comments "disappointing" and accusing him of following Barack Obama's lead in "playing the race card" (an accusation initially levied at Obama by McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis).
Labels: David Patterson, racism, Republicans
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