I can't decide which side Timothy Egan is on. In Stranger in a Stadium he presents pretty much every Republican-crafted doubt about Obama in a rather sympathetic sounding framework. Many of the commenters seem to accept the framework as indicative of his message.
Me, I see things like this
Obama’s central dilemma — strange in this age of media saturation — is that so many voters still don’t know him.
“My story is your story,” Obama tells crowds. But it’s not.
“Do we know if he ever sold drugs?” Sean Hannity, ever eager to inject a lie that fits a stereotype in the national bloodstream, asked Jerome R. Corsi, the professional character assassin and author of “Obama Nation.”
The Texas Republican Party targets Obama with a Web video that shows pictures of an African who lives in a shack, identified as Obama’s half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama. Hint, hint.
And at a Washington state fair this week, the Republican booth distributed $3 bills depicting Barack Obama with Arab headgear and a camel.
But it speaks to one of two big issues that Democrats are trying to resolve during this week’s convention: Can a majority of voters get comfortable with the son of a Kenyan of the Luo tribe?
His father, Obama writes in his memoir, “was black as pitch” and thus “looked nothing like the people around me.” He also abandoned his American family before Barack ever got to know him. On Obama’s mother’s side are ancestors of Scottish and English stock, and Obama writes of staring at an old sepia-toned photograph from a Kansas homestead. “Theirs were the faces of American Gothic, the WASP bloodline’s poorer cousins.”
...and it makes this
This is just the stuff on the surface. McCain will not bring it out directly. He has others — legions — to do it for him.
...take on a meaning the author may not have intended.
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