Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
Er, all those other presidents? Isn't there just one President on the dollar bill?
And have you noticed that it's always Obama who's actually injecting race into the campaign, under the guise of warning about what those Evil Republicans will do? And is it really likely that John McCain would be out there saying "don't vote for Obama, he's black?" [...] And another reader emails: "Isn't the gaffe '*other* presidents'; again he thinks he's already president." [...]
MORE: Okay, what's really weird is that Obama just said the same thing about himself, in Berlin: "I know that I don't look like the other Americans who've previously spoken in this great city."
So who's the one raising these racial issues, again?
Obama is trying to scare white Americans about being called "racists" if they don't vote for him. I doubt that tactic will win him many votes, but it might provoke an over-reaction from the McCain camp. Obama has the media on his side, so they can push his message gently, but McCain will have to make provocative statements to get mentioned in the press. We're getting to the point that any criticism of Obama is considered "racist", which is exactly why Rush Limbaugh's official Obama criticizer is certifiably black "with slave blood" (unlike Obama).
I'm disappointed in Obama. He had the personality and charisma to win without playing the race card. In time, he could have been the next Martin Luther King Jr., but now he's looking more and more like the next Jimmy Carter.
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