McCain Flip Flopped On Affirmative Action

It’s absolutely extraordinary to me how the McCain campaign so easily played the media this week when it came to the issue of Obama’s so-called playing of the race card. John McCain’s properly displayed forged indigence finally put a stop to the beating he was taking from Obama’s well-run campaign in recent weeks. Immediately the media ran to cover the offended republican nominee. Perfectly played use of the race card (I really hate that term) John McCain. As tasteless as it was, it was a highly effective move on his part.

What makes it so absolutely extraordinary is how the media completely missed it when it came to John McCain’s use of the race baiting code word ‘quotas’ in his flip flopped stance on affirmative action. In the past, McCain has clearly supported affirmative action programs as long as they did not include quotas. He is now opposed to all affirmative action and uses quotas as his new found reasoning.

My friends, allow me to make this plain for this unaware of the facts. Affirmative action is not about quotas. If there is an affirmative action program that includes quotas then it is an erroneously run program that needs to be restored. Proponents of affirmative action know full well that quotas should not be a component of any such policy. Instead of amending improperly run policy, that include quotas, they attach the dastardly scary code word ‘quotas’ to each and every affirmative action program whether it includes such a stratagem or not. It is the classic bait and switch game used to flimflam the American public.

By engaging in this kind of trickery, John McCain sent a message to those who falsely see affirmative action as a form of reverse racism that seeks to give jobs and opportunities to less qualified minorities. The reality is that affirmative action favors white women more than any other group. So when Ward Connaly, America’s preeminent affirmative action adversary – who John McCain endorsed this week, ask questions like ‘what about poor white children’ they are purposely overlooking the gains that those poor white children get when these programs assist the mothers of these children in providing with better educational and occupational opportunities.

The press aids this kind of duplicity when they ignore it, when they go along with such fiction and don’t correct such falsehoods. Be that as it may, John McCain's camp and supporters still choose to display the media as being on the side of Obama.