….apparently has tom toms in the background when it mentions his name.
PS: He just happens to be African-American.
This comes on the heels of a Republican ad widely condemned from non-lockstep Republicans and others for playing the race card.
If this ad (which you can listen to at the link) plays what many think it’s playing then it sounds as if The Powers That Be felt the race card is effective and it’s time to play another.
This is a VERY easy election in which to cast a vote for those of us who believe in a serious discussion of issues and national unity. There would have been other factors; this kind of thing makes it a slam-dunk.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.