It’s not racist to oppose Obama
Ed Morrissey covers a fund-raiser Obama attended in San Francisco over the weekend where he continued to use the race card to smear the GOP. Morrissey’s write-up ends thus:
Unfortunately for Obama, risk assessment has to play a role in every presidential election. LBJ made it an issue with Barry Goldwater with the “Daisy” ad. Democrats painted Ronald Reagan as a man who would go cowboy and start a nuclear war, while Republicans questioned whether a draft dodger like Bill Clinton could lead the American military when needed. Every presidential contest since World War II has highlighted the choices required in a dangerous world. None of this risk assessment had anything to do with racism then, and has nothing to do with it now.
Just this past week, we got a glimpse of how both candidates would handle a major international crisis. John McCain talked constantly to the press, giving analysis steeped in his personal experience with Georgia and Russia and explaining the stakes involved for the US and the West, as well as how to address the sudden example of Russian imperialism. Barack Obama issued contradictory statements and refused to take questions while secluding himself in Hawaii.
It’s not racist to wonder whether an untested, inexperienced Senator with no legislative track record and no military record presents a risk as President. Instead of addressing these legitimate concerns, Obama wants to paint them as somehow racist to even consider. If that’s how he plans to govern as well as campaign, then perhaps Obama’s even riskier than we think now.
I’m not quite sure why Obama and his supporters in both the Democrat Party and mainstream press insist on smearing Obama opponents as racists, other than the fact that they’ve played the race card so often for so long that they don’t know how to do anything else. Some of these leftists honestly believe that if Obama were simply white, he’d be getting 100% of the vote, not understanding that we conservatives don’t oppose Obama because he is black. We oppose him for the same reason we opposed John Kerry in 2004 and Al Gore in 2000. He’s a flaming liberal, and we don’t support liberals of any color.
