Oh, Did I Mention...

Senator Obama giving his "Race in America" speech in Pennsylvania, a speech given rise from the controversial statements made by his one time Pastor and Spiritual Mentor.

Like a great many of these claims or a great many of these tactics, it doesn't have to be based on fact or even on empirical evidence, there doesn't have to be proof, it just has to be presented as fact in a way that appeals to the basic and base fears of people who generally want to believe that. There, if people want to believe it they will believe it and perception becomes reality.

By Citizen Correspondent Wyatt McIntyre

Date Posted: 06/21/08

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Well it's quite the move...

Once more the race card has been played, tossed out amidst the political landscape of the 2008 race for the White House, and once more it is a Democrat using it to draw a distinction between his campaign and the other campaign. Most remember the statements by the supporters and surrogates of New York Senator Hillary Clinton, the one time contender for the Democratic Nomination for President, and their use of it. It was all oer the Democratic Primary.

Former President Bill Clinton tops that list with his statement that his wife has no chance of winning South Carolina because people will vote based on race and gender as an expression of who they are, or then there was Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and his comments that were more telling of his thought patterns than those he was trying to cast dispersions on saying that Democrats should not support the candidacy of Illinois Senator and Clinton Rival Barack Obama because conservative voters are not ready for a African American President, or, of course, former Congresswoman and 1984 Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro, a principle Clinton fundraiser, and her assessment that if Senator Obama were another race he would not be as strong as he was in the primary. There just didn't seem like their was any escaping it.

Yesterday though it wasn't Clinton or her supporters, now faded off into the palpably obscure, Senator Clinton only coming out now and then to occasionally campaign with her one time rival This time it was Senator Obama tossing the race card on the table at a fundraiser in Florida. There he told supporters that a principle Republican tactic this race will be saying "He's young, he's inexperienced, and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black."

It's not the first time that race has come up in conjunction with the Obama campaign.