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Title: NY's Paterson: McCain campaign insinuates race into criticism of Obama's community organizing
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Published: Sep 10, 2008
Author: VALERIE BAUMAN
Post Date: 2008-09-10 09:54:15 by Jethro Tull
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NY's Paterson: McCain campaign insinuates race into criticism of Obama's community organizing By VALERIE BAUMAN ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ New York Gov. David Paterson said Tuesday that there were racial overtones in the Republican presidential ticket's criticism of Democrat Barack Obama's work as a community organizer. "There are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign," Paterson said at an event in New York City. Paterson said that while Republican candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin haven't directly talked about race, it's strongly implied in comments Alaska Gov. Palin and others have made about Obama. McCain's camp said Paterson's claim is false. "The Republican party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative," Paterson said. "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," said Paterson, a Democrat who is the state's first black governor. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, often talks about the three years he spent working as a community organizer in Chicago. Peter Feldman, a spokesman for Sen. McCain, said Paterson's accusation is untrue. "This is a tactic that the Obama campaign has used before, and which McCain campaign manager Rick Davis correctly called divisive, shameful, and wrong," Feldman said. "Gov. Palin's remark about Barack Obama's work as a community organizer was in response to the Obama campaign's belittling of her executive experience." At the Republican National Convention last week, Palin compared her work as a small-town mayor to Obama's as a community organizer. "Since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities," she said then. Feldman says Palin's comments were a response to insults about her own political experience.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Of course. Impossible to avoid, when there were racial overtones in the organizing.
You bought The Battle of New Orleans.New York Gov. David Paterson said Tuesday that there were racial overtones in the Republican presidential ticket's criticism of Democrat Barack Obama's work as a community organizer.
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