Joe Biden doesn’t apparently think so. According to Asheville’s Citizen-Times:
“Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.
Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.
“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”
We have been told that criticizing The Obama is racist, even when criticizing him for his off-the-chart liberalism. It’s just like the Ford-Corker senate race here in Tennessee, when Ford’s defeat was attributed to racism. So I have to ask, if it’s racist to vote against The Obama because of his skin color, isn’t also racist to vote for him because of his skin color.
