Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times
- The McCain campaign’s accusation that Senator Barack Obama is “playing the race card” brings the race issue out in the open while allowing the McCain team to say it has not made the first move — a strategy we saw to some degree in the Democratic primaries.
Whether that works or not, this will mark the day that race officially became an issue in the 2008 general election.
The McCain camp no doubt watched the evolution of race as in issue during the primaries, when the Clinton campaign also suggested that the Obama camp made it an issue after the Clintons made some indirect comments that angered many black voters and politicians.
