No, Senator McCain, it's YOUR campaign that's playing the race card

As one of our readers pointed out, "community organizer" is simply Karl Rove-speak for "n***er". And if you watched any of the speechifying at the Republican National Convention, the way speaker after speaker spat out the words "community organizer" as if it were spoiled meat, the implication was clear.

New York's increasingly awesome governor, David Patterson, called it this morning:

The McCain-Palin campaign is taking aim at Gov. David Paterson for his suggestion this morning that Republicans are making a "racist appeal" in their denegration of Barack Obama's days as a community organizer.

"I think that there are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign," Paterson said during the Crain's Business Forum breakfast.

"...I think the Republican party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life - which I noticed they did at the Republican convention -- a 'community organizer.'

They kept saying it, they kept laughing, like what does this mean? It means that an individual who could have gone to Wall Street and made a lot of money and then run for office because he could buy media time chose to go back and work in programs in a neighborhood where he thought he could make a difference and became an elected official based on his involvement right in his own community."

McCain-Palin spokesman Peter Feldman fired back, calling Paterson's comments "disappointing" and accusing him of following Barack Obama's lead in "playing the race card" (an accusation initially levied at Obama by McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis).

I think it's hilarious that a campaign that is crying "sexism" every time someone dares ask Sarah Palin a question about the increasing number of lies she's telling about her views and her experience out on the campaign trail...

...a campaign that's demanding "deference" as if Palin were a queen instead of the "hockey mom" they also want her to be known as, is crying foul when a representative for Barack Obama calls them out on their obvious racism.