Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Haley on racial politics

Governor Haley Barbour interview with the The Washington Times, stating that he is still on "Hurricane Duty" (i.e., building ports with HUD money), and McCain should wait to pick his VP after the Democrats decide.

But what stuck out in the interview more was this portion:

Mr. Barbour, in an interview with editors and reporters at The Washington Times, also said he disagreed with Mr. McCain´s condemnation of the North Carolina Republican Party, which is vowing to run a television commercial attacking two Democratic gubernatorial candidates who have endorsed Sen. Barack Obama´s presidential bid. The ad uses some of the inflammatory racial rhetoric from the senator´s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

"These two Democrats endorsed Obama. Everything is fair game. In a presidential election, people consider all sorts of things in a presidential candidate's background. It's the most personal office in the world," Mr. Barbour said.


I guess Davis won't be getting in trouble by Papa Haley this time around.

4 comments:

  1. "Everything is fair game." - Barbour.

    Well this is the man who ushered in the deamonize your opponents strategy at the helm when Republicans began their slash and burn rise in the 1990s.

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  2. What John said. Haley and Newt are 2 of the architects of the "Slash and Burn" strategy.

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  3. No matter what a Republican says, liberals will condemn him as racist. I just don't understand how that commercial is racist.

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