Reply #38: I don't think it was about race as soon as Obama announced, as was mentioned above...

[bridgit]

Many were waiting to see what Barack Obama had to say to them, and the people they care for.

Many Americans voters understood clearly enough why his support has been so solid within the AA community of voters across the nation. It must be nice to have a candidate you can relate to on so personal, so societal, so religious, and philosophical a level as Obama offers to some. I know I'm still waiting for that candidate. And it furthers no point to assert that because I am white, I therefore have already "had my candidate", still...

My read is that this primary has become too much about race. Yes, others would contribute; but as well and in no small measure in that Obama supporters have been insinuating that people that are not voting for BHO are racist by default. Leaving out all but the 'you are a racist', some of the insinuations even here at DU are not so veiled. Or too mysterious to understand.

These non-mysterious, not so veiled insinuations have been propagating through the body politic of America for months now. It is folly to believe/think that only one (1) group has chickens out there just waiting to come home to roost. And that that group just happens to be your opposition, or enemy. Never including yourself, or the people around you. Folly to believe that such insinuations will not gather import causing others to turn their heads at more than was intended. And now it is about race when many were waiting for issues instead,

HRC spoke on issues & solutions very early on, and in mind-numbing detail; while BHO stood amidst cheer-leading university pom-poms again for months on end offering the re-appropriation of war funding for college tuition & scholarships to lingering, tumultuous cheers all round. A twin spin/double two-fer. The rooms fell more silent when he mentioned "work" and, "building things". But Obama understood his audience as being somewhat cloistered. He had yet to come out and speak to the land.

In the absence of issues, America, it is my further sense; her attention being short & easily drifted...the one thing America will entertain for certain is a good old fashioned smack-down. Like the kind we see here at DU, or on WWF. A back/forth, up/down, push/pull, right/left, salt/pepper, good guy/bad guy, good cop/bad cop, white...black smack-down congratulations!

The racist insinuations have worked, the race baiting has worked; it is now all about race. What is not clear is why so many did not see this coming, when they've been actively rolling into the belly of this cul-de-sac for months now.