Obama Denies Race-Baiting Denial

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Sat Aug 2, 2008 at 11:38 am PDT • Views: 313

Barack Obama kinda-sorta admits that his “I don’t look like those other presidents” line just might be referring to his race.

I don’t think it’s accurate to say that my comments have nothing to do with race,” Obama said. “Here’s what I was saying and I think this should be undisputed: That I don’t come out of central casting, when it comes to presidential races. For a whole range of reasons. I’m young, I’m new to the national scene, my name is Barack Obama, I am African American, I was born in Hawaii, I spent time in Indonesia. I do not have the typical biography of a presidential candidate.”

Obama should have a word with his staff, then, so they don’t continue to reflexively deny things that are obvious to anyone with more than two brain cells.

An Obama spokesman denied that the line about “dollar bills” was related to the Democrat’s race…

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