re: #1 prairiefire

Groan, Biden! sigh

Yup.

The Obama camp knows from long experience that there’s no upside for them once the Right successfully drags the media into one of these “they played the racecard”-derp stories. They recoil when this sort of BS slips into the media cycle and they put a lot of effort into avoiding it. During the 2008 election it was a week long distraction when McCain was doing press avails accusing them of having “dealt the race card from the bottom of the deck.”

I’ve never seen the polling go their way once this sort of crap gets going, which is why the Romney folks are piling on and exploiting it for all it’s worth. Romney’s even now hitting it on the stump.

In any case, Biden needs to be much more careful and stick to his prepared remarks. You can’t afford to have the press chasing manufactured-race-outrage catnip for too many news cycles.