No John McCain made race an issue.

My statement is just about as substantive as yours.

Read Gene Robinson in WaPo and get back to me.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080401824.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Of course he did. By simply being black. What was he even thinking, being born with darker pigmented skin than the majority of Americans?

As Greg said, Obama was almost asking for it.

When the President of the dem party has to state he is not a racist, it is very obvious who played the race card.

The President of the dem party having to say he is not a racist is a new low for dem politics.

Disgusting and unforgivable.

right on.

this whole issue is such a piece of crap (jeez Lux getting vulgar) this is such a stretch, such a waste of our time.

Calling Obama "EXOTIC", that's a race card.

Calling Obama "Presumptuous" that's very close.

Showing Obama juxtaposed with some skank celebutards, that's very close.

pot calling the kettle "exotic"

Apparently only part of the original post made it. So here is full post. Sorry.

Obama is the One that made race the issue.

KNOXVILLE (8/5) - In a year when it may only be slight hyperbole to say that no Democratic candidate for President could lose, Obama may have made a fatal mistake that will hand the Republicans a victory.

On June 20th he made race an issue saying, “Did I mention he’s black.” Just last week he said three times in one day: “I want look like the others on the money.”

The McCain campaign fired back that Obama was making race an issue. Senator Lindsay Graham agreed. No secret campaign memo is necessary to prove this point.

These recent comments by Obama are just the tip of the iceberg.
From day one Barrack Obama made race an issue and has played identity politics to the hilt all the way.

Obama choose a date - on or about Abraham Lincoln’s birthday - to announce his run for president. He chose Springfield, Illinois – a home of Lincoln – as the place to announce. He even chose the very courthouse steps to make the announcement that Lincoln announced his run for the presidency. And, he spoke of Abraham Lincoln and slavery in his announcement speech.

His stump speech always mentioned Abraham Lincoln and slavery at least through the South Carolina primary. And, under a category called “hope” he made sure to revive the images of police beatings, the flailing batons and of the vicious dogs being unleashed upon blacks.

He rarely, if ever, missed the opportunity to add “and blacks died.” He said “and blacks died,” “and blacks died,” “and blacks died,” over and over again.

On the day of the South Carolina primary Obama, speaking before a primarily black audience, said, “You know how they are. The ole okie-dokie. The bamboozle.”

Spike Lee made clear in the movie Malcolm X that when Malcolm X said something similar that he was talking about “white” people.

Identity politics worked through the Democratic primaries. Donna Brazille (John Kerry’s campaign manager) threatened to leave the Democratic Party; Congressman Clyburn of South Carolina (third ranking democrat in Congress) threatened “irreparable” damage to the Democratic Party; Color of Change (boasting 400,000 black membership) made its threats; Al Sharpen threaten marches (code for riots); and certain super delegates like Diane Watson (a black Congresswoman from Los Angeles), among others, were threatened.

Obama never objected or even once said stop threatening his party; stop threatening America. He just rode the wave he set in motion and pretended it was others.

Is making race the issue a winning strategy for Obama?