Icarus's Blog tag:www.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk/blogs/icarus//2471 2008-08-03T06:22:16Z Movable Type Pro 4.21-en Is McCain Iago? tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk//17.206801 2008-08-03T06:22:16Z 2008-08-03T06:22:16Z Icarus By juxtaposing images of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Obama, McCain easily resurrects the ancient white fear of sex between a black man and a white woman.  The McCain campaign will spend more on the ad, whose subtext is: look out, look out, a black man is running for President.  Why did Rove say that Obama reminds him of the cool guy at a cocktail party with an attractive woman on his arm?  Bush conservatives are as hung up on sex as Iago. (Check out MediaMatters' posts on Rush Limbaugh, if you want to see a twisted personality.)  Othello dies as the result of Iago's machinations.  Will our very own Iago prevail over Obama?
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