Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:
Chris Wallace is a tool.
Gee wiz, he's pissed that Fox is spending two hours delving into the background of the presumptive Dem nominee for President. It's the mainstream media who has whitewashed Obama's ties to corruption and racism.
Can one imagine if at this moment, John McCain's oldest and most prolific financial backer was on trial in Federal court for bribery/corruption charges? And if Rezko had given McCain a sweetheart deal on a million dollar home?
Or if McCain not only attended religious services in a racist church but contributed vast sums of money to such an institution?
The most startling "racist" event in the campaign (by far) has not been Obamas inability to attract white support but rather the Black communities all out abandonment of the other white candidates including HC and Edwards.
It is Obama who has successfully used race as a life advantage.
He's no "blacker" than Jason Kidd and less a minority than Tiger Woods. Raised by the white half of his family in the extremely non-Black locales of Hawaii and Malaysia. Somehow he winds up on Chicago's South Side. Pretty smart politics. Illinoisans know in a harbinger of this campaign, it was Obamas "race" that best enabled him to beat a crowded white field to gain the nomination for Senate to begin with. It's not like his non-existent record in the Illinois legislature catapulted him into the public consciousness.
Obama and his supporters want the advantages of racial politics without the baggage of divisiveness vis a vis' Wright and Michelle Obama. So far they've preyed upon the white guilt of the media and on Dem primary voters. That will only get him so far.
Republican's are not racist. Even someone like me would enthusiastically support a Keyes or Rice or Powell or Watts for President. For they are not defined as Black Americans but they're just proud to call themselves American.
