Posted by Jed Lewison on Tue Sep 2, 2008 at 1:01 AM Pacific

First We Were Racists...Now We Are Chauvinists?

Who'd have guessed that in the middle of the first presidential election to feature an African-American nominee, the guy making accusations of racism and sexism would be the old white dude?

Take, for example, McCain's flack Nancy Pfotenahauer. On the opinion page of today's Wall Street Journal, she calls critics of John McCain's VP selection process "chauvinists."

As James Carville made clear last night, that's an obvious load of bull, but it's nothing new for Pfotenahauer who has made similar attacks before, including a ludicrous accusation of reverse racism against the Obama campaign.

In early August, she said Barack Obama was playing the race card when he pointed out that John McCain was mocking the idea of his face on U.S. currency -- even though John McCain was mocking the idea of Obama's face on U.S. currency.

Here's audio:

And here's a screenshot of McCain's ad mocking Obama on U.S. currency:

The moral of this story is pretty clear: you just can't take anything the McCain campaign says seriously.

They are a complete joke.