of a person of color being the president of the United States. Probably the saddest part was watching these two clowns in this video laugh and joke and defend themselves as being anything but racist. They are completely oblivious to what it means to be a victim of racism. It is further evidence of how out of touch many people to the right of the political spectrum are with the economy, the housing crisis, taxes and race relations (just to begin with). This is what happens when people are not exposed to diversity and are unaware of how hurtful language and images that mock another race and try to portray people of a different race as caricatures that are too ugly an to reminiscent of offensive images of the man from the Cream of Wheat Box, Aunt Jemima or other images that are designed to degrade a whole race of people. This video and movement represent a continuation of racist attacks, including trying to link Obama to Muslims (racism against Muslim people) and that is disgusting enough. When will the good people of the Republican party stand up and say enough is enough. Sen. John McCain has waffled on issues as much as any politician on the planet. But, the bigger point is that these are the kinds of racial politics that Republicans are trying to use to divide the American people along racial lines in an effort to create an us-vs.-them mentality to bring whites to the side of McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin. I hope that good people will see through the racism and not buy in. As a side note, pay particular attention to the comment attributed to CNN's Lou Dobbs.ThinkProgress on story I could hardly believe when I first saw it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/13/obama-waffles-featuring-racist-stereotyped-images-sold-at-values-voter-summit/
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