The AP has a story that manages to insult an awful lot of people:

The U.S. presidential election presents a sharp contrast between two types of patriotism: John McCain stands as a war hero. His rival Barack Obama calls Americans back to the can-do spirit of the nation’s founders…Democratic candidate Obama has made patriotism a core theme of his campaign, seeking to inspire voters to overcome divisions of race and party and using his own story as a child of a Kenyan father and Kansas mother as an example of opportunities available only in America…

Obama grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, an island far from the U.S. mainland. As a result, he could be vulnerable to the charge that his background and values are unfamiliar. One possible method of exploiting this emerged last week in a memo by campaign strategist Mark Penn for one-time Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton, which suggested she could defeat Obama by running an explicitly patriotic campaign. Obama should be presented as someone not “fundamentally American,” said the memo in advice Clinton did not adopt…

Obama would be the country’s first black president and as such faces an extra hurdle as he attempts to persuade voters. “There is a historic suspicion that African Americans are less patriotic,” Kohn said…”Conservative whites look at them (blacks) as unpatriotic…

Question: what cliche or insult, if any, did the authors somehow manage to omit from the piece?

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