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A prominent leftwing Web site is questioning whether Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign is playing the race card – by darkening the tone of Barack Obama’s skin in a new TV attack ad.
The commercial, which began airing Monday in Texas, used footage from last week’s Ohio debate in which Obama admits that a Senate subcommittee he has led since early 2007 hasn’t held any hearings on Afghanistan because he’s been too busy campaigning.”Call me crazy, but it certainly appears to me that Sen. Obama’s skin tone is significantly darker in the Clinton campaign commercial” than it appeared in the debate, wrote J. Thomas Cronin, who blogs on the Daily Kos Web site.
Obama’s campaign had no comment on the ad – which some Kos posters compared to Time magazine’s deliberate darkening of O.J. Simpson’s skin on an infamous famous 1994 cover.
Darkening a black person’s skin is seen by many as a deliberate way of making them seem more menacing.
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