Of course they have to bring race into it! I don't give a flying rats' ass what 1/2 of his skin color is. They have no defense for their candidate so they trot out their go to excuse. 0bama is Jimmy Carter on steroids. I didn't like him or his policies either...I thought he was an arrogant jerk but he's got nothing on 0bama...and he's a white peanut farmer from the south.
Note to DUmmies: the man is only half black. He had 2 Muslim fathers. His biological father and the tribe he belonged to consider themselves Arab, NOT black African. He has absolutely no idea what it's like to be poor. His ADOPTIVE Indonesian father had a very good job and they lived in a rather upscale neighborhood. When he lived with his mother he lived almost exclusively in other countries.
When she sent him back to live with his grandparents, his grandmother was vice president of a bank, making more money than the "99%". She was part of the 1%, doubly evil because she was a banking executive ripping off the poor & middle class. His grandparents were lily white so, again, he had no concept of what it was like to be poor & black. He went to an exclusive private school that the majority of us couldn't afford. At college he evidently decided to abandon his white/Arab half for reasons known only to him.
While in college this pampered & indulged child of privilege had to manufacture his "black experience" by choosing to hang out with radicals. Most were angry rich kids, pretending to be poor minorities. Probably because they had a guilty conscience because they were living off of mommy & daddy. Well, that and it was super cool to be radical whiners. They spent their time throwing temper tantrums. Here they were attending damned expensive private college protesting because the decided they weren't getting everything they thought they deserved just because they happened to be breathing in America. The majority of them haven't grown out of that stage.
When he graduated, after attending Columbia & Harvard law (not necessarily schools for the masses) he moved to Chicago and started attending Reverend Wright's (another angry black man who, ironically, is rich enough to live in an exclusive neighborhood) church. While he worked with ACORN agitating (instead of truly helping) the poor, he was buying a fancy house in a rich neighborhood with the help of a slum lord (he seems to know a lot of these, including his closest adviser, Valerie Jarrett) who has now been convicted for a number of crimes. His black experience has been lived vicariously through others. Like his fake styrofoam Greek columns he's a fraud, an empty suit who has to pretend to be something he's not.
But all you see is his skin tone. Typical. I'd just love to have one of you come over here and explain why you aren't racist even though all you see is his skin color. Bet none of you will. You don't have the guts and probably can't justify it at all. Racists asshats!
Cindie