So much for that “decades in Washington” nonsense. Here’s David Axelrod on Good Morning America (via Greg Pollowitz at NRO - Media Blog, emphasis added):
Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod was asked by Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America just what Obama was driving at with his comments that “McCain and the Republicans” would make an issue out of the fact that “he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills.”
This is how Ax answered: “He’s not from central casting when it comes to presidents of the United States, he’s young, he’s new to Washington, yes, he’s African American.”
In other words, of course he played the race card!
The only real surprise is the initial attempt at deflection. After all, it’s not as if the Audacity of Hype had never done this before.
