Monday, June 23, 2008

Stacking the (Race Card) Deck

Keep your decoder rings handy.

Obama adviser David Axelrod said the Democrat's campaign will be on high alert for code words or innuendo meant to play on voters' racial sentiments. "We're going to be aggressive about pushing back on anything that we feel is inappropriate or misleading," he said.


Here's a partial list of the words and phrases we can expect the Obama camp to define as racist "code words", in their attempt to have them removed from any conversations held between now and the first week of November.

Liberal
Socialist
Communist
Marxist
Collectivist
Naive
Inexperienced
Corrupt
Pretentious
Foolish
Weak
Appeasement
Gun Control
Rhetoric
Scandal
Preconditions
Raising taxes
Michelle Obama
Jeremiah Wright
Bill Ayers
Tony Rezko
Jimmy Carter
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro
Hamas
Flag pin
Flip-flop
527


And, for future reference, here's the partial list of approved, non-racist words and phrases bearing the Obama stamp of approval:

Hope
Change
Fluffy bunnies