Just last week, McCain launched an ad trying to show ties between Obama and the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae institutions. That's certainly fair game but the face he chose to highlight those ties was Franklin Raines, a person with some of the weakest connections to the Obama campaign. Raines also happens to be black. In the ad, as we hear ominous music and the narration of a white woman, we see images of black men looming over the mortgage crisis followed by the image of an elderly white woman who represents us, the taxpayers.
Later, a Bush insider advised the McCain camp to paint Obama as "uppity."
Now, today, McCain launches another attack ad which features Franklin Raine's leering black face under the heading "STOP CEO RIP-OFFS" followed again by an elderly white woman representing the public which is in turn followed by Barack Obama's grinning black face.
Really, when is the mainstream media going to call out McCain for launching a new round of WIllie Horton salvos?