Argh, maybe I should give Obama more benefit of the doubt than I gave him in my last comment. It is true that Obama hasn’t shouted down people as racists for opposing him. Others are doing it in support of him, but he is not. I can’t say that he even deliberately encourages such things since I don’t know in fact.

I think Obama has telegenic features and he can give a darn good speech. I think he has shallow socialistic policy proposals, but I don’t know if he’s purposely cultivated this and told his supporters and surrogates to deride his opposition as racists.

Whereas his predecessor, the good senator for Massachusetts, John F. Kerry, and his supporters waffled and accused President Bush and his supporters the last election of being ignorant buffoons, and whereas they doctored official documents (a felony), smashed his election offices around the country in overt brownshirt tactics (an obvious crime) and other lowdown dirty tricks, Senator Obama has only belittled, condescended and smeared his opposition through sly implications. That’s well short of the toxicity of the 2004 election.

Although I wish we aren’t hampered by considerations of racial sensitivities during this election and instead get to the where the rubber meets the road politically, who knows? Maybe we’ll eventually get to see our politicians delve into concrete ideas and proposals later on.

When I heard that McCain is going to run a “nice” campaign, I wanted to bury my face in my hands. It’s like fighting the war against the Islamic Radicals and the war in Iraq. You can’t name the enemy or what he’s doing. You’ve got to twist yourself into prezetels and employ bizarre circumlocutions that renders meaningful discussions on the subject nonexistent.

Again here with this election, Obama’s camp and his supporters and on a hair-trigger to call everyone and everything “racist”, that is, everything that disagrees with his stances. Even though Obama doesn’t say these things himself, he’s using the tried and true method perfected by the Clintons to get others to say it for him.

Let’s see here. We can’t talk about his record. He hasn’t got any.

We can’t talk about his policies. He hides much of it in a mesh of eloquent nothingness, even though it is there. If you do, you’re a part of the “old politics” and by the way, you’re racist for pointing it out.

We can’t talk about his friends; ie. Wright, Ayers, et all. If you do, you’re the racist.

We can’t talk about his past, ie. drug use. That’s racist.

We can’t talk about how he rarely attends his committees in the Senate. He’s got better things to do. Oh, that’s racist.

… my goodness. On so many threads, some many talking head discussions from the Left and on the blogosphere, if you oppose Obama in any way, others will call you a racist.

Then the question becomes, “What can you talk about? What can you criticize without that accusation being leveled at you?”

The only thing left would be Obama’s hope, change, hope, change mantra, and I don’t know about you, but it’s getting really, really old.

Inexperience: counter with Change and hope… to be against Obama is to have no hope

No Record of reaching out to Republicans in the Senate: redefine unity as liking Obama… not liking Obama is divisive.

Can a Black man win: charge racism at each opportunity

No Specifics: asking for specifics is “same old washington politics…

By keeping the campaign “nice” and on the very real differences between the candidates McCain counters Obama’s campaign of deception and deflection.