The American Spectator

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br> Dark, very troubling days loom on the national horizon. br> -- C. Kenna Amos br> Princeton, West Virginia

I am not sure race is the issue that has confounded Senator Obama's campaign. The case could be better put that hatred is the storm that has made his waves.

Reverend Wright's constant verbal stream of hatred, anger and invective towards the white race is the not the issue. The issue is the shock that a Presidential candidate sat through it for 20 years. That a candidate apparently acquiesced in Wright's vilification and intense dislike of the Nation he seeks to lead.

Mr. Obama says Mr. Wright's rantings are not who he is. But his wife has provided us an insight into whether that is political desquamation or a sincere statement. Ms. Obama shed some light: she has only been proud of America only "this time."

I think it absolutely just and proper that the Senator's judgment and character be the subject of intense and serious debate. This is a man who spent 20 years sitting in this hate-filled place. This is a man who subjected his children to this most vile of speech; race based demonizing.

p>It is not too much to wonder whether he was one of the masses whom, every Sunday stood up a cheered for the triumph of hatred towards his American brothers. br> -- Jay Molyneaux br> North Carolina /p>

I think that Mr. Tyrrell is misreading the part that race is playing in this election cycle, and is being a bit unfair to the Clinton camp as it pertains to race. While Bill Clinton did invoke Jesse Jackson during the South Carolina primary, it has now been proven that staffers from the Obama campaign had been instructed to look for any comments that could be construed as "racially insensitive" to be highlighted to the detriment of the other candidates. So while the Clinton camp may have actually uttered the first word about race in the campaign, the Obama camp was more than ready to begin playing the race card when it would be to their benefit. Obama is not exactly clean on this issue.

Also, there has to be a mention of the ole the media has played in race becoming a factor here as well. It has been the media that has rushed to characterize any criticism of Obama and his ideas as race based. The media has chosen sides in this race and have used cries of racism to explain away any criticism and to paper over any of Obama's gaffes on the trail. With the media so willing to focus on Obama's race as a positive factor in his candidacy, how can you be surprised that race is a factor? Remember how little attention the media gave to Joe Biden's statement about how Obama was the first "clean" and "articulate" black to run for President, yet they were the first to basically call Bill Clinton a racist for saying that even Jesse Jackson was able to win in South Carolina (which was true, by the way).

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