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There was little new on the campaign trail. NBC's Where They Stand series saw Andrea Mitchell fact check each of the candidate's claims to be qualified to be Commander in Chief. John McCain, she predicted, will "be judged in part by Iraq, a war he still supports." Hillary Rodham Clinton was criticized for exaggerating her own role in her husband's diplomacy in Northern Ireland and Bosnia. Barack Obama earned demerits for his failure to conduct oversight hearings on Afghanistan.
ABC's Jake Tapper (embargoed link) offered a vague follow-up on Geraldine Ferraro's demeaning comments about the racial factor in Barack Obama's success by reporting that unidentified Democratic leaders are worrying about "a party polarized by race." He noted that Ferraro's remark "was not the first" comment emanating from Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign "seen as trying to marginalize Obama as the black candidate," but, again, he did not identify those doing the "seeing." Tapper also played a soundbite from Obama's pastor, the Rev Jeremiah White, observing that we are "living in a country and a culture that is controled by rich white people." Tapper said that White has been "accused of playing the race card"--but again did not name the people doing the accusing.
Tapper should know better than to throw around such passive verbs and unattributed slurs.
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