Does he really think people are that stupid? I mean, really?

Yesterday in Missouri, Obama predicted McCain and the GOP would use racially-tinged attacks against him.

“What they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama said. “You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

An Obama spokesman denied that the line about “dollar bills” was related to the Democrat’s race.

If it wasn’t about his race, what the hell was “look like all of the other presidents” about? As far as I can recall, this country has yet to have a long string of identical twins in office. He’s talking about the big ears, isn’t he? Yup. Republicans are attempting to scare you away from voting for him because he’s got big ears.

Seriously, though, here’s the full quote of what the spokesman said:

“What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn’t get here after spending decades in Washington,” Gibbs said Thursday. “There is nothing more to this than the fact that he was describing that he was new to the political scene. He was referring to the fact that he didn’t come into the race with the history of others. It is not about race.”

He’s so full of crap I can smell him from here. What does Obama not spending decades in Washington have to do with “look(s)”? And how many decades did George Washington spend in D.C.? Abraham Lincoln? Thomas Jefferson?

Last month he was more specific when he played the race card:

“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”

And now they’re denying that his recent remark has nothing to do with his race? Seriously?