McCain-Palin Trainwreck Excuse du Jour

12th in a series on the best
excuses for the GOP disaster

Conservative pundit Patrick Buchanan, who has made a cottage industry out pretzel logic, is concerned that those uppity Negroes are banding together to pick on poor John McCain:

"[I]n hailing Barack as a 'transformational figure' whose election would 'electrify our country . . . and the world,' [Colin] Powell seems to testify to the centrality of Barack's ethnicity to his decision.

"For what else is there about this freshman senator, who has no significant legislative accomplishment, to transform our politics and to electrify the world, other than the fact that he would be the nation’s first African-American president?"

That's Mister Obama to you, Pat.

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