Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much (Updated) 0
Ye bolt hath struck home.
Addendum, Later That Same Morning:
Chauncey Devega’s has his own typically trenchant analysis of this. A nugget:
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In all, the vast majority of references to chains have little to do with the horrors of slavery, the Middle Passage, and the Black Holocaust. That Romney’s campaign would play with such historically potent imagery–efforts made even more insincere given the Tea Party GOP presidential nominee’s blatantly racist Barack Obama is a lazy negro welfare king ads–is not surprising.