Obama's Race Card playing tactic

A bit of belated news, but news nonetheless. Obama has once again played the race card. Oh, and ignore the part II in the title, since he's done it plenty of times before that.

Obama, in June, first said that the republicans where going to try to make you scared of him by talking about his name, and the fact that he is black.

In August, Obama used the exact same statement, with the exception of the "...and did I mention he's black" part, which he traded in for "...doesn't look like all the other presidents on the dollar bill".

So you have to ask: why is Obama doing this, and what will the voters think?

The reason why Obama is playing this card is simply because he does not wish to go through the vetting process, like Clinton and McCain had to do, and, well, ANY person running for office, let alone the highest office in the land, would have to go through. Basically, he is playing the card so that if anyone were to look back into Obama's rather messy past, or even challenge him on the issues, Obama and his goons would end up painting the person as a racist. It's exactly what happened to Hillary and Bill Clinton in the Democratic primaries, since the two had to fumble on their words at every moment to make sure that they could not be seen as racist, even by people so far left as Obama, Sharpton, or Jackson. Unfortunately, Obama's plan had worked. Now he is putting it into play against John McCain, who made sure that the moment it came out, he put out a statement showing how Obama played the card, and the Obama's campaign low road tactics.

But really, how does this resonate with voters? Obama basically has the hardcore liberals eating from the palm of his hand, but is having trouble with the Hillary voters, usually women over the age of 40, and blue-collar workers, also voters who came in large numbers to the Hillary campaign, and finally the Hispanic voters, who recent polls show may be going to Obama, but aren’t necessarily locked in as John McCain has a history with the Hispanic vote. Now, this does not work well wit any of the above. All three of the groups would see this for what it is, a racial move, and will be moved more towards McCain.

It really is a shame that in today's political climate, race still comes to the forefront by politicians trying to force people to vote for them, or else have those people be considered "racist" since they didn't share the same views. Really, American politics have come to a new low.