Racism, Plain and Simple

I am an old white guy who has been knocking heads (figuratively speaking) over racism and other justice issues for years. So I think I know one when I see one.

People can yell about "socialism", "don't want a president filling my kids' heads with Orwellian (some pinhead actually used the word, and I doubt seriously if he has ever read Orwell) thought," all they want, but I am convinced that at the root of most of this is Obama's differentness, i.e. color. It's not all race, I know that. But an awful lot of it is.

What else could it be? He's not as left as some other democrats. He knows how to wage a war -- has shown that he is willing to defend the country and seems to know how to go about it. He can speak in paragraphs, and, up to now, has halted Bush's economic downturn, and will have to go some to match Bush's drunken sailor spending habits, albeit aided and abetted by a rubber stamp Congress.

So, for now at least, I think that the fear being pedalled about President Obama has a tad more than a whiff of racism about it.