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Graham: It's A "lie" To Say Obama Not Injecting Race Into Campaign
Aug 3, 2008
(The Politico) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Barack Obama is "absolutely" injecting the issue of race into the presidential campaign on Sunday morning, and twice calling it "a lie" for the Democratic presidential nominee to claim otherwise.
“To say that Barack Obama did not intentionally inject the idea of his name and his race is a lie,” Graham said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
“There is no doubt in my mind that Sen. Obama is trying to suggest that he is the victim of something,”
The issue of race exploded onto the campaign trail this week after Obama delivered a speech in which he said he was being attacked for “not looking like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
The McCain campaign later accused Obama of "playing the race card," a charge the Obama camp angrily denied.
“To say that that is not trying to inject the idea that you are a victim of John McCain trying to make fun of your name and your racial background is a lie," said Graham. "That needs to be admitted to.”
Appearing on Fox with Graham, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) defended Obama's comments."What he was saying all along is that he has a different kind of resume," said Daschle. "What he was saying is that he is a different kind of candidate, a different kind of leader."
UPDATE: Asked about Graham's comments, Obama spokesman Bill Burton told Politico's Amie Parnes, “The McCain campaign seems to sink more and more into the gutter every day.”
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When Obama is on stage and he says that he looks different, when he is on stage and says that it was historic that a woman and an African American ... he has injected race, and to deny that, is a lie.
McCain has never mentioned the word, nor did his campaign, until the issue of race was turned - that Obama could use it, but no one else could or they were injecting race. Then you began to hear the McCain campaign mention it.
Sad Obama. You are not the politics of new, you are still the old divisive politics, you claim to oppose.
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