So, are you still a racist?

If you aren't going to vote for Obama, you'll need to be prepared for that question. I've said all along that many people are going to vote for Obama merely under the false assumption that it will end racism. They will be dead wrong. The Democrats will never allow racism to end. My view is an over simplistic version of what the actual deal is though.

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News covers it much better as he explains The Faustian Bargain At The Heart Of Obama's Campaign

• People who are honest will admit that race is a double edged sword for Barack Obama. Yes, there are certainly racist Democrats and independents out there who will not vote for Barack Obama because he's black. On the other hand, if Barack Obama weren't black, he could have never gotten this far. A white man with his experience and abilities wouldn't have even been considered qualified to run for the presidency, much less actually become the party's nominee.

TheSophist over at Redstate explains that the Democrats are already laying the groundwork with his Dems Already Making Preemptive Excuses

• Tell me if you've had this happen to you recently. You're conversing/debating with a known leftist friend or colleague, and the topic of Obama comes up. They spend several hours praising The One, how he's so brilliant, so articulate, so charming, so... everything this country needs.

  Then they say, "But I don't think he's going to be elected" with despair in their voice.

  Naturally, you ask, "Why would you say that?"

  The answer: Because the country is too racist to vote a black man for President.

Read both and you will clearly see that this is a question you will be presented with. In certain instances, they may even throw in the "are you still beating your wife?" one too.

Me? I'm not voting for Obama for many reasons and none have to do with race. If we would have followed his lead in January 2007 we would have had all our troops out of Iraq by March 2008. That was what he said we had to do. That would have left Iraq to Al Qaeda.

Yeah, but he has Joe Biden on the ticket now, so he has foreign policy expertise, you say? Right, Joe Biden's answer at the same time was not any better. He wanted to split Iraq into 3 pieces, pin a sheriffs badge on someone, then high tail it out of there. That leaves Iraq to Al Qaeda too, although they may have just settled for a third of Iraq. Not much of an improvement.

There are more, like the fact that Obama thinks $4.00 a gallon gas is a good thing, but it just went there too fast, and his wanting a bigger chunk out of any capital gains I might get.

I'll still be called racist though, you know...