Race, Again

It's clear that there will be no let up in the charges of racism being constantly hurled by Barack Obama's surrogates. I do admit that it gets to me. It really pisses me off to be accused of racism. If it's to simply deflect criticism, it's infuriating.

But here's the deal. Supposedly all these racist Republican politicians use code words and dog whistle politics to remind racist voters that Barack Obama is in fact black. This has obviously escaped their attention for the past four years so some constant reminders are in order lest they forget again between now and election day. That's probably the only reason they voted for him four years ago. John McCain refused use words like "angry," "Chicago" and "golf." But now, a Romney aide points out that Obama seems to be running an angry campaign, and sure enough, everybody in the room has this look on their face that said, "Oh my god, he IS black, why didn't I notice?"