Over the last few weeks, the Democrats have been laying the foundation for their media strategy. They have assured the media that everything the Republicans say (whether it's honest criticism, common election rhetoric, or even respectful observation) is really a racist slur.

• Republicans are being slammed for racism, and we haven't even said anything yet.
• The only people who are talking race are fellow Democrats (the Clintons), who have the gall to blame their own plain racism on the GOP -- they claim they're just preparing Obama for what those racist Republicans will surely do in the fall! (By that same logic, Bonnie and Clyde were only robbing the bank to prepare the bank for bigger robberies.)

The public is becoming gradually more aware of how campaigns use the media to broadcast their own rhetoric. Obama is taking this cynicism to a new level. He simply wants to label all criticism as racist. These stories are simply preparing the ground. They're going to do everything they can to deflect any attempt to make Obama explain himself.

The key to Obama is simple. He's a lightweight. Expose him for what he is. He spent one year in the Senate, and decided that Washington was broken, so his solution is to become president? That logic doesn't work.

There's an old rule: don't play the devil's game with the devil. The GOP can't get sucked into how the Democrats are framing this debate (or more accurately, how they're trying to frame it away from true debate). Instead, the GOP has to stick doggedly to making Obama explain himself ... because Obama can't.

Well, well...looks like Burma's military junta is showing their caring side.

 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_re_as/myanmar

"They need to have a course in college called common sense and everyone should take it.  Problem is there isn't too many people that could pass or teach it."  -my grandfather

Which candidate has consistently polled 90% or above from a specific large ethnic voting bloc? Which bloc was that?

Does that 90%+ support constitute racism?

Hussein O (read his books) and his preacher brought racism to the forefront with the worst display of racism in 50 years, and set race relations back to 1865. They act surprised that it came back and bit them on the butt. No one with a brain can look at the Obama's and not see two street corner racist.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

Newsbusters asks: "Has WaPo taken a few disgusting incidents and turned them into a controversial yet exaggerated front-page story?"

"[A] few disgusting incidents"? No, Kevin Merida, the militantly leftist useful idiot who wrote this editorial for the Washington Post, has taken a few unsubstantiated allegations and turned them into "facts".

Obama will be painted a racist! And I mean "any" body.

If you are a black man or woman NOT voting for Obama you will not be called a racist, you will be called "uncle tom", or "sellout", or some other invective.

God forbid the 90% of black voters who voted for Obama should be called racist? anyone who thinks that should be spanked!

But are these 90% racist? I mean they did not vote for the white girl. Right?

This is going to be a tough race for the white man because he doesn't have a voter base form which to draw upon.

Count me racist.

I am not voting for him.

BECAUSE HE IS AN AMERICAN HATING SOCIALIST!!!

Not from the South, but spent a lot of time there as a young man in the '50's.  Saw all the colored fountains, public restrooms, movie balconies ("n" heaven), etc.

Worked part time in a shoe store, with instructions if a colored came in, throw a large cheap wingtip shoe on him, and pinch his toe to make the sale. 

Rode a Greyhound once from LA to Little Rock with returning black Korean war veterans with chests full of medals.  Upon crossing the Mason Dixon line (north to south for those who don't know what the line is), the black veterans had to move to the back, and couldn't eat at the food stops, and I had to bring them food.  They had to go out into the bushes if there was no colored restroom. 

 A lot of thanks for serving their nation.  Times were miserable for them and the hating whites, both in the South and the North in those times.

 The hating whites taught their children and their grandchildren this same hate and bigotry.  That takes us to the present.

 It will take a few more generations before this country can elect a black president.  The hate and bigotry still remain.

 Our media will never say any of the above out loud.

 "If a liberal didn't live it, it doesn't exist."

In my alone-time moments, I like to imagine that I am special, unique, waaaay off the bell-curve.  Chances are, though, that I am like many others.

In which case I will speak for those like me and say:  I am all for an African American president.  If he can lead and be a strong President, bring him on!  Just don't give me Obama. (Michael Steele, where are you!?)

And a corollary:  I am all for a woman president (I just wish we had a Margaret Thatcher clone available to run!) just please not Hillary. 

In my case (and the vast herd I speak for), it's not the race or the gender that bothers me, it's the individuals.  They are rotten and evil and destructive and toxic.  Being African American or female is incidental. 

When one of the victims of their phoning said that they "can't fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African-American president", maybe they had similar sentiments to me (and my herd).  Maybe they just don't like the man and don't give a fig for his race - whatever it is. 

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

That giant sucking sound you hear is Bill O'Reilly trying to get an interview with Barack Obama.

It seems many journalists working for agenda-setting media outlets are really starting to play hardball in an effort to make it unacceptable to criticize Obama.

The implication from this article is clear: if you don't support Obama, you must be a racist.

When I read the WashPost article I could almost picture the caricature being drawn of those who don’t support Obama:

Dang, you’d hafta be plum crazy to vote fer that city slicker.

Obama himself, according to the article, doesn't seem too concerned about the criteria that voters use to pick a candidate to support:

"Will there be some folks who probably won't vote for me because I am black? Of course," Obama said, "just like there may be somebody who won't vote for Hillary because she's a woman or wouldn't vote for John Edwards because they don't like his accent. But the question is, 'Can we get a majority of the American people to give us a fair hearing?' "

—Matthew Vadum is Editor of Organization Trends and Foundation Watch, two monthly newsletters published by Capital Research Center

 this? http://www.bobbarr2008.com/

Also, anybody heard from our ol' buddy Nader since he announced his running?

Maybe I'm wrong, but all I have to say is, "Let the vote siphoning begin." I like a lot of Bob Barr's ideas, but it just doesn't seem like a 3rd party candidate ever has a chance. I'm not a fan of McCain's but I'd rather have him than Obama or Clinton. I see Bob Barr getting votes from Conservatives and ultimately allowing the dems (ugh) to regain the White House. I'd like to vote for someone like Barr but I don't want my vote to help the Libs. Help!

"It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face."