this week alone Republican Senator Tom Coburn opined that Obama’s policy preferences were influenced by the alleged fact that “as an African-American male,” he got a “tremendous advantage” from them.

And, in the same week, Rush Limbaugh, having previously penned ditties about “Barack the Magic Negro”, went on about how Obama was an “oreo”.

Now, are you still blowing that “For the record, the only important figures to use race language directly against Obama” smoke out your sphincter?

Attempts by the Left to paint criticisms of Obama as the product of racism among voters is going to alienate everyone who already thinks Obama’s economic policies have failed, because they know that they do not harbor racist feelings toward him. They will resent the false accusation by Obama’s supporters, and will correctly see this accusation as an attempt to create a red herring to distract the national dialogue away from the substance of Obama’sd failures.

In other words, the tactic is going to backfire, because most Americans are, unlike those on the Left, not plagued with a constant sense that any success they enjoy has been at the expense of downtrodden minorities. And that will be especially true among critics of Obama who are also members of minority groups, who are confident of their own lack of prejudice. Accusing their opposition of “racism” instead of defending the substance of Obama’s programs will simplify solidify the opinion of most Americans that Obama cannot even honestly articulate a rational defense for his policies.

It will just confirm for most people that Obama hypocritically claims immunity from the same standards of performance and accountability that most of us expect of ourselves, in the same way that he accepted a Nobel Peace Prize before he had made any major decisions affecting war and peace, and then proceeded to increase troops in Afghanistan and assassinate Osama bin Laden.

I’d title your post “The Democrat who Cried Racism, part 74,924.”

And I’d say that this race-card move has been continually employed by Obama-promoters. In my judgment, it’s only been for the past eleven months, when it began to dawn on various MSM and Democrat leaders that the Tea Party was a) not going to be squelched by calling them names(“racists” included) and was b) quite broad and electorally significant, that we’ve seen a temporary let-up in the race-card rhetoric.

And we all know that if Obama loses or comes close to losing, we are going to see it played endlessly.

Problem with most “conservatives” (white or otherwise) is that they tend to ignore or deny this country’s long and sordid history of white supremacy. They refuse to acknowledge that that history accounts for much of the obvious and glaring racial disparities in income, incarceration rates, wealth accumlation, etc., ad nausem between “whites” and everybody else.

Sheila Jackson Lee is also correct in her analysis of the opposition to Obama. Although he is obviously nobody’s “flaming liberal,” most white conservatives simply cannot accept, refuse to accept that “their” country is in the hands of the “other”, that is someone who does not look like them.