Well, when we're throwing the word "nigger" around, it says more about the tone of the conversation and the backwards ideals of the speaker than I care to comment on. Though the article mentions Obama once with the hurricane example (not even specifically, just in a generic list) and again in the last two paragraphs. It uses the story of the M.J. kid juxtaposed with Obama's "Anger" to illicit a response. Clever writing for sure on the part of the author. Interesting how he misrepresents Obama's speech at the end as well. Very little of this article has anything to do with Barack Obama and it entertains me how it is painted to be otherwise.

Though I'm curious who the Vietnamese voice is in the media, the voice for these people who chose NOT to speak about their hardships. I can't think of one, can you? I don't even see how the comparison can be drawn with Katrina when you consider that around 2.0% of the population in New Orleans are catagorized as "Asian" (let alone Vietnamese!) whereas 36.7% are identified as "Black."

In any case, Obama hasn't pulled the race card to do his thing (until his hand was forced) any more than Hillary has pulled the gender card. Others have been pulling it for them. It should ALWAYS be about the issues. This speech never would have occured if it wasn't for Obama's reverand and it was even put up on Fox news as an incredible move that stifled most of the negative conversation. It is the media who has controlled the conversation about race. As he said in his speech, various outlets pegged him as "too black" or "not black enough" to win.

Also, "Irregardless" is not a word and is, indeed, a redundancy.

On the other hand, if you'd like to put on the rose-colored glasses and pretend that we have no racial issues lingering, then you have no further to look than the use of the word "nigger" one post above yours Dy. Hillary is interested in nothing but polarizing things. McCain is less so but does it nonetheless. At least in a race between Obama

Its no wonder to ME that Limbaugh and other conservatives lambast Obama and put up Hillary. Aside from Limbaugh's drug problems, They know that McCain stands a MUCH better chance against Hillary because of the amount of Democrats who would turn and vote for McCain in a race between those two.

Lets look at some particularly "divisive" comments regarding race and Rev. Wright from his recent speech:

"But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country - a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam."

Well, other than the mentioning of radical Islam being possibly racial, I don't see any problems here...

"...problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all."

Ouch, problems we face that are colorblind? That face America as a WHOLE? What a divisive figure that Obama is!

Oh, I get it. It must be the picture that he paints of America when segregation was present and Blacks were not allowed to amass wealth - except that his whole point in saying it was that "This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up." It was giving Wright's comments a context.

"That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change."

Sounds to me like he's CONDEMNING anger here. Interesting. What else does he say?

"But I have asserted a firm conviction - a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people - that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice is we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union."

Move BEYOND RACIAL WOUNDS? Working TOGETHER? A MORE PERFECT UNION? Oh, the HATE!

"For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words."

Or, he says, we can talk about the things that are important for all Americans - uniting to fight injustices that we all face. What a divider. What an angry man.

But to Ed Kaitz, the writer of that article, I have to say, its very easy to take one snippit of a 40 minute speech COMPLETELY out of context and put it somewhere in order to paint a person in a specific way, as you did with Obama. To the writer of the article and to anyone who thinks that it holds a grain of salt, I say this: READ THE FREAKING SPEECH! Obama NEVER expresses his own anger. I call this sort of inability to comprehend "selective illiteracy." This is a perfect demonstration of that.