To be clear, this is not pointed directly at Obama, nor even necessarily his campaign, though one instance does feature Biden.

This is more pointed to his hidden campaign team, the media, who have taken over his campaign’s early race baiting.  He doesn’t have to do it any more, he has many willing accomplices.

First, USA Today has a piece on White Supremists, and inserts a slight twist:

USA Today Story on White Supremacists Subtly Suggests GOP Home to Bigots

In her October 21 article, “White supremacists target middle America,” USA Today’s Marisol Bello took a look at how hate groups are trying to go more “mainstream” by ditching Nazi armbands, brown shirts and white sheets and going for a more “middle class” look. While there is merit in covering such a story, Bello and/or her editors unfortunately chose to color the piece in a way that reflected negatively on the GOP by featuring with the article the photo shown at right with this caption:

Derek Black, left, gets help from his father, Don, on his Internet radio show Sunday in Lake Worth Fla. Don Black is a former Ku Klux Klan leader, and Derek holds a seat on the Palm Beach County, Fla., GOP committee.

The photo and caption appear above the headline on USA Today’s online edition. Yet the Blacks were just two of numerous white supremacists featured in the story and it took Bello until paragraph 26 out of 28 to note that the Palm Beach GOP is “trying to unseat him [Derek Black] after learning of his white supremacist ties.” 

Next, check out the latest racist word:

Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black

The word?  Socialist.  Yes, Socialist is a racist implication.  It has nothing to with the fact that Obama advocates policies and ideas that actually, you know, socialist…

 Next, The New York Times plays a little double standard:

NYT: OK for AFL-CIO to Bash McCain, But Anti-Obama Mail Racially Suspect

The presidential race this year has brought out polling as never before, and the numbers are all over the board.

It brings back to mind the Governors race in California a few years back where Contender Bradley was leading in the polls, then lost the election anyway.  This resulted in the creation of “The Bradley Effect”.

It suggests, in essence, that in a racially divided contest, that when white voters are polled they will claim to vote for the minority candidate so as to not appear racist.

It is hardly out of the realm of possibility, as many people use the stigma of racism to influence anything they can.  The Obama campaign and supporters have dropped the race card every chance they can, including this recent attempt by Joe Biden (via Sister Toldjah)  and the popular perception has already been put forward that if Obama loses, race is the reason.

Ann Coulter has a few things to say about it:

EIGHTY-FOUR PERCENT SAY THEY’D NEVER LIE TO A POLLSTER

With an African-American running for president this year, there has been a lot of chatter about the “Bradley effect,” allowing the media to wail about institutional racism in America.

Named after Tom Bradley, who lost his election for California governor in 1982 despite a substantial lead in the polls, the Bradley effect says that black candidates will poll much stronger than the actual election results.

First of all, if true, this is the opposite of racism: It is fear of being accused of racism. For most Americans, there is nothing more terrifying than the prospect of being called a racist. It’s scarier than flood or famine, terrorist attacks or flesh-eating bacteria. To some, it’s even scarier than “food insecurity.”

Political correctness has taught people to lie to pollsters rather than be forced to explain why they’re not voting for the African-American.

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In addition to the social pressure to constantly prove you’re not a racist, apparently there is massive social pressure to prove you’re not a Republican. No one is lying about voting for McCain just to sound cool.

Apparently they do not think so.

I don’t have to replay all the past drops by the Obama campaign and all the other various uses.  Prime examples are as in the recent events file.

One was when Palin took the gloves off and attacked Obama over his association to unrepentant domestic terrorist, William Ayers. 

As this RNC faq sheet shows, he did have a close association, and Ayers has never recanted his terrorism.

And almost immediately, the race card was dropped on her.  Not by Obama, ironically, but by the Associated Press¹:

Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge

By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign. 
 
And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.

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“Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,” Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain’s ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.

“This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America,” she said. “We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism.”

Her reference to Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground, was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.

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The larger purpose behind Palin’s broadside is to reintroduce the question of Obama’s associations. Millions of voters, many of them open to being swayed to one side or the other, are starting to pay attention to an election a month away.

If you connect the dots between racism, sexism and democrats you end up with one word:

Hijacked.

In both cases we had serious social issues.  We had serious social revolution.  We had real change and social enlightenment.

And we ended up with both issues being hijacked by the democrat party for political gain, with many of the advances and changes being lost in the betrayal.

In both cases equality and empowerment were traded for victim hood and entitlement.

I am no social expert on either topic.  But I can speak to change because I have seen change.

I have seen peoples attitudes shift and their determination to be fair and to ignore race and sex.

But I have also seen opportunists.  People who stir the flames of distrust to gain power and prestige.

I have seen racism and sexism offered as default explanations to imaginary problems.

I have seen white males herded into an atavistic corner, and told they are racists and sexists and that they can never change because of institutional discrimination and white male privilege.

I have seen well meaning people trashed for nothing.  For using a word that sounds like something bad but isn’t.  For being respectful.  For being honest about common sense issues.

And yes, I have also seen hold outs of a lesser enlightened era, and such people are sad parodies of humanity.  People who do indeed hold onto baseless stereotypes and beliefs.

And when you take those people and ram them headfirst into the opportunists and baiters, you might almost believe that nothing good has changed.

The real truth if liberals were honest, is that race and gender relations are much much better than they used to be.

But to hear some liberal talking heads speak, nothing has changed.

Where it is the saddest and where it exposes the real liberal agenda, is when you couple these two topics with conservatives.  Michael Steele was lampooned in black face  by black liberals.  Clarance Thomas has been castigated as not really being black.  Sarah Palin is undergoing a fierce roasting by liberal feminists, and Condi Rice has always been treated as a side show freak by liberal blacks and women both.

I am getting more and more puzzled by the use of race in this election and more and more disheartened by what that shows about America.

I feel like a lone voice in America protesting the use of race as a polarizing and defining characteristic.

While Biden can say how much of a transformative thing it will be to elect a black man, Ferraro is blasted for noting that Obama’s race was an obvious factor in his candidacy. 

In fact several high profile mentions of race have been made late, both here and internationally, all pointing fingers to how good it will be to elect a black man, and more importantly, how bad it will be if we don’t.

The fact is that if Obama is not elected president, the only aspect of his candidacy that will matter will be that of race.

We may not have the race riots and such that people like Al Sharpton have warned of, but we will certainly have a national debate about race, and about how we are still stuck in the days of Jim Crow because those racist white folk will not break their racial fears and hatred long enough to elect a black man.

We will be subject to (highly paid) expert after expert trotted out in a line all with woeful dour faces bemoaning our loss of progress in equality.

We will have white shills to run apologies for the rest of the poor unenlightened racists.

And little will be said about the fact that maybe some people believe that McCain might be a better choice for president.

It doesn’t matter that Obama’s policies are nothing special despite his claims to be the candidate of change and hope.  It certainly won’t matter that he himself noted in 2004 that he would not run in 2008 because he would not be ready.  Nor will it matter that his years of legislative service have left little signs of innovation or leadership.  In fact little of anything.

Race.

Deal em up, here comes the race card.

First up is Joe Biden who finally says what everyone is thinking:  Vote for Obama because he is back:¹

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.

Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.

“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”

So, why is this necessary?

North Carolina last voted for a Democrat in 1976, when Jimmy Carter won much of the South. But the state has a large population of blacks galvanized by Obama’s candidacy, and the Illinois senator has competed aggressively here for months.

Oh, yea, that.  If they won’t vote for you for your failed policies, go for something more elemental.

Now, I posted this in a forum, and was taken to task by a friend who pointed out that Biden never explicitly said to vote for him because he is black.

Here is how I responded:

Context matters <name>. 

If you want to stand on the exact words, fine. I will assume you are a literalist then, and cannot be trusted to look at hyperbole, idioms and metaphors.

A speech is a method (of) communication, and the communication process has four key elements, a sender (biden), a receiver (the audience), a message and feedback.

If you look at what he said, who he said it to, where he was when he said it and the circumstances of why he said it, it makes sense.

A brief moment away from the campaign, as Clarence Thomas provides a little common sense about affirmative action and other race based programs.¹

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action.

Thomas, addressing leaders of historically black colleges, said affirmative action “has become this mantra and there almost has become this secular religiosity about it. I think it almost trumps thinking.”

A longtime opponent of race-based preferences in hiring and school admissions, Thomas said, “Just from a constitutional standpoint, I think we’re going to run into problems if we say the Constitution says we can consider race sometimes.”

Thomas, 60, has voted on the court to outlaw the use of race in college admissions and in determining which public schools students will attend. He wrote with evident resentment in his autobiography “My Grandfather’s Son” that he felt he was allowed to attend Yale Law School in the 1970s because of his race and took a tough course load to prove he was as able as his white classmates.

“My suggestion would be to stop the buzz words and to focus more on the practical effect of what we’re doing,” he said Tuesday.

Here he is just speaking the obvious truth that the left refuses to accept, or that they cannot sell to the people who make a living pushing race based diversity programs.²

Racially based decisions and programs are racist.  Period. 

1. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D933CKDG1&amp;show_article=1 [back]
2. http://leaningstraightup.com/2007/11/20/seattle-schools-where-diversity-blame-whites-for-everything-and-make-some-money/ [back]

I read about this a few days ago and I really wasn’t sure I wanted to address it.

First of all, I am unconcerned about Elisabeth Hasselbeck being moved to tears by the bigotry and hypocrisy of her co stars.  She goes to work every day knowing that her fellow View ladies are ideologically opposed to her.  While I admire her refusal to quit, I have to hope she is strong enough to deal with what she deals with every week.  In fact, I have to say that she has sown incredible strength previously, so I know that she has it in her.

So my outrage is not that sweet Elisabeth cried.  It is that her co hosts are so pitifully racist.

The issue is of course the word Nigger.  After Jesse Jackson got caught muttering it over a hot mic, the topic has once again raged discussing who can say it, when they can say it, and who they can say it to.

The reality seems to be that if you are black, you can say it to a black person, as long as you mean it lovingly as a term of endearment.  At least that is how Goldberg and Shepperd of the view see it, in their racially nuanced position.

Hasselbeck sees it more fundamentally.  If it is wrong, and bad, then no one should feel comfortable saying it.  Period.  Walters seems to agree, though she is partially patronizing too, and she is shut down by Shepperd as well.

One would think that black co star Goldberg would applaud her, but no.  Poor white Elisabeth is deluded, apparently.

Here is the full transcript, with my comments in line.  I will follow this with two other reactions I thought worthy.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I don’t know whether you’ve been watching television last night or this morning, but new footage was leaked that apparently shows Jesse Jackson using the “n” word. Fox News says the tape was leaked. They didn’t have anything to do with it. So I ask you, is any of this a surprise?

I guess this proves that even after being caught being stupid on live TV, it never totally dies.

The fool is defending his stupid comments.

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is sticking to his comments that the term “black hole,” which a colleague used, is racist.Price also says language such as “angel food cake” and “devil’s food cake” are also racially insensitive.

Go to the link to see video of this buffoon.  He also objects to Black Sheep.

A friend of mine pointed out:

 Did you notice his own racism rear its head.  The Jew vs barter comment was a dead giveaway.

Here is the video of the original incident…you make the call.

You can’t make this stuff up, I swear.

So according to these angry idiots we should sanitize any use of the words black or dark that could possible have any negative meaning.

I am all for removing offensive euphemisms from our society, but please, let’s not be ridiculous.

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At least that seems to be the consensus in Texas.

I swear, I read this today and I honestly was looking to make sure this was not parody.

It wasn’t. 

Dallas County officials spar over ‘black hole’ comment

A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

Sure.  Using the proper technical term for a gravitational anomaly, where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape it including light, as an analogy to an office where paperwork enters and never reappears….that’s racism?

Seriously?

Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster’s, is perhaps “the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape.”

Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track.

Good for them  Obviously clear thinking people recognized that this was a snipe hunt, a foolish complaint…

Well, actually no.  It was because:

TV news cameras were rolling, after all.

Sure.  No sense in looking like idiots simple because you were acting like idiots.

Michelle Malkin takes this tomfoolery to its logical conclusion:

Next on the p.c. forbidden list: black box, Blackberry, blackjack, and blackout. Oh, and all black Crayola crayons, which shall henceforth be called “African-American.”