"Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, 'he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name,' you know, 'he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
With these words, Barrack Obama gets to make an accusation about something that has yet to happen (and very well may not happen) without having to prove anything. "They're going to try" means they have not done it yet, but watch out because they will. Obama's inference here is about race, even though he and his spokespeople deny that. Bottom line, Obama is calling McCain and conservatives racist, and he doesn't have to prove anything because even he admits that it hasn't happened yet. I find it ironic that Obama here is using a very common scare tactic, trying to raise fear in his listeners to beware and avoid those nasty, intolerant, racist McCain followers. In other words, he is already doing the very thing that he is accusing his adversaries will do.
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