Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Saturday called rival John McCain's campaign cynical, but said he did not believe comments by the candidate and his aides were based on racism.
The McCain campaign charged this week that Obama had injected racial politics into the race by accusing McCain and other Republicans of planning to scare voters by pointing out that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills" _ all of whom are white men.
In the ensuing debate, a McCain spokesman suggested the Arizona senator was being painted as a racist. Obama denied the charge, saying only that the campaign's comments were part …
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