…there is no doubt that racial bigotry will play a role in the final result and that multitudes of people will vote against him simply because he is an African-American. On the other hand, there are other multitudes who will vote for him precisely because of his race. Those positively inclined multitudes are composed of at least two major groups.

The first major group would be the blacks who view his candidacy as a vindication of centuries of abuse and as a matter of healing grievous wounds that still fester in the hearts and souls of the black experience in this country. The second major group is composed of whites, mainly liberals, who believe that this nation must demonstrate to the world that America has put its bigoted past behind it and welcomes with open arms its first nonwhite chief executive.

Those positively inclined voters greatly outnumber the bigots. If they did not, how did Obama create that tsunami of votes that swept him into the nomination? That tsunami of nonbigoted voters demonstrated something that is yet another elephant in the room that nobody wants to discuss.

If he fails to win the final election, this will not disprove my argument that this country is in a post-racial era. What would his defeat prove? It would demonstrate primarily that millions of people, for whatever their reasons, were convinced that he was not the best person for the job or that they liked the other candidates better.

I suspect that my own angst about voting for him is characteristic of many other voters who have not made up their minds. Never, in a long and happy life, have I ever, drunk or sober, voted for a Republican presidential candidate.

Yet, I am thinking of doing so now because I believe that the nation is in such danger from Islamic extremists and from national leaders who encourage them, especially Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and also the leaders of Saudi Arabia. I want a tough leader in the Oval Office to confront them and their ilk, such as Vladimir Putin of Russia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Moreover, I want an American leader committed to the survival of Israel, our major ally in the world.

John McCain seems the toughest of all four candidates. The Democrats and Obama leave me wondering if they have the guts to face the political monsters of the world. I suspect that McCain, even with a naïve vice president at his side, is more likely than Obama to courageously confront the great threats facing our nation. If I vote for McCain it will not be because of Obama’s race but for many other reasons based upon objective analysis. That, I assure, you is not racial bigotry.

Arnold S. Trebach, professor emeritus at American University, was a civil rights protester in the South and a federal civil rights official.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/380244_obamarace24.html

Obama is a fabrication of the MSM and on top of that, a pair of EXTREME left wing activists. Judging by the coverage of the “party” in Denver, it’s pretty safe to say that CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, etc…have already made up “our” minds as to whom will be the next president.  Why do we ignore ignore all evidence that this is an important issue that must be addressed?

Obama whines about McCain’s supposed lies, the purveyor of Hope and Change has been throwing mud at McCain ever since locking up the nomination.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/16/sebelius-say-did-you-know-republicans-are-racists/

Then there was this zinger from this Kathleen Sebelius:

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that a belief among some voters that Democrat Barack Obama is different from them is hindering his campaign for president. Asked at a brown-bag lunch at the local library why the campaign is neck-and-neck, Sebelius said “code language” raising doubts about Obama is invalid because his life experience “has a lot more to do with me and my family.”  “I think that the notion that, ‘By the way, have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African American?’ I think that is for a number of people difficult,” Sebelius said. “I think we need to talk about the fact that that is a real issue.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/689044.html

The Press also fabricates racism on behalf of Obama:

The article.  Black ‘issue’ hangs over presidential polls, by Adam C. Smith in the St. Petersburg Times on Monday, September 15, 2008.

A pollster calling Sandra Cichon, a 60-year-old Democrat from Spring Hill, would hear her identify herself as an undecided voter. But is she really?

“I can’t imagine having a black president, and I think he’s inexperienced,” she told a reporter recently, eventually acknowledging she was leaning unenthusiastically toward McCain.

Interestingly, Barbara Sowell’s Media Caught Fabricating White Racists? at Faultline USA and Digital Journal on September 21, 2008, found a rather interesting twist to this quote.

Sandra Cichon denies having said it.

In a phone interview Saturday, Sandra Cichon of Spring Hill, Florida denied that she ever spoke with any pollster or reporter concerning Obama or about anything regarding race. Cichon was taken by surprise when phoned by this reporter, and she was not aware that she had been quoted in any newspaper.

Interestingly, Cichon had been interviewed previously in August 2008 for two other St. Petersburg articles of which she was quoted.

Cichon explained that the only time she spoke with a reporter was in August when she went to vote in the county commission races. She said that he (the reporter) seemed nice and she gave him a catalogue for gift baskets.

DoubleTake White anti-racists blog paraphrased the same article, and also made the same initial direct quote as above from Cichon, with an addition however.

Sandra then asked the reporter if she would like a fresh batch of “Obama Waffles.”

Cinchon was upset about these purported quotes.  She denies ever talking to a reporter on the phone about Obama and about waffles.  Cinchon planned on asking for a retraction from the St. Petersburg Times.

Adam Smith of the St. Petersburg Times was also unaware of their reporter being offered “Obama waffles” at the interview.

Sowell goes on to additionally report,

I talked to the woman and actually took her by surprise. If you read the above article closely you can see that anything she said to the reporter was said in August regarding the county commission races. This matches up with what Times Editor, Adam Smith confirmed that John Frank was the reporter. Frank co-authored both those articles in August that had nothing to do with Obama.

What is so upsetting is how any blog can just add words at the end of a legitimate quote and few will bother to check. Just like the Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere – Los Angeles did to this woman.  …once they get your name, they can get you to say anything at all.

Let the article speak for itself. If read carefully it should raise a lot of questions.

http://quipster.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/fabricated-voter-quotes-by-media/

Maybe she thought the entire group was visually challenged and needed to have Obama’s skin color pointed out to them.  Shame on you Kathleen Sebelius, you are a racist.  Take your white guilt and pile it elsewhere.

“Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now,” Obama told those assembled at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center and a nationally televised audience in March.  His campaign, though, didn’t follow his lead.

Obama and his surrogates have been unable to go three weeks since the end of the primaries without race-baiting.  Team O has made the supposedly racist motives of his critics the main pushback against all criticisms, with the media’s complicity.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/22/the-discussion-obama-didnt-want-to-take-responsibility-for/