At a time when even members of the left are acknowledging Barack Obama’s pitiful move of using the race card to deflect criticism, the Obama campaign is digging in and continuing to accuse John McCain of injecting race into the election.

David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist, appeared on MSNBC this morning to repeat the accusation and their excuse that Obama wasn’t alluding to race in his “dollar bills” remark.

Again, bullcrap. “I haven’t spent my life in Washington”? How many of the presidents on the “dollar bills” have? Washington never lived in DC because it didn’t exist. Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Thomas Jefferson didn’t spend their lives in Washington. Their excuse doesn’t even make sense.

Furthermore, Team Obama insists it hasn’t gone negative. Really? Here is an energy ad from them several weeks ago, in which they attack John McCain and compare him with Bush. Is an ad that attacks your opponent no longer considered “negative”?

Finally, I find it funny that Barack Obama objects to being compared to Paris Hilton. Especially since he compared himself to the starlet back in 2004. That wasn’t apparently offensive then.

The Obama campaign realizes that it’s gotten itself into a rut here. They played the race card to deflect criticism and they damn-well know it. Like Allahpundit says:

What you’re seeing here is a campaign so desperately worried about their guy having exposed his scummier race-baiting tendencies that they’re willing to lie as shamelessly as they need to in order to try to defuse it. And it’s capped, of course, by the rapidly coalescing talking point that McCain’s the one who introduced race by daring to defend himself.

Indeed.

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