Back Channels: Obama's lowball attacks | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/28/2008: "Back Channels: Obama's lowball attacks Suggesting that McCain is a bigot runs afoul of the high- minded 'unity' tripe.
By Kevin Ferris
Inquirer Columnist
What exactly is the change we're supposed to believe in this election year?
That Barack Obama represents a new kind of politics? Or is change tied to hope, as in we hope he re-morphs from typical negative-ad-slinging pol back to magical new Obamassiah once he's safely elected president?
Does Obama even know?
In his ad 'Plan for Change,' Obama decries the 'petty attacks and distractions' of the campaign. 'Bitter partisan fights' won't solve our problems, he says. What will?
'A new spirit of unity and shared responsibility.'
That ad is in English.
In Spanish, he has a very different message, one much closer to sleazy race-baiting than the spirit of la unidad..."
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