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p>And as much as we try to pretend it is otherwise, race is a factor in all of our lives. It is a part of whom we are, and for blacks it is maybe a bigger factor than it is for whites. As a black man, while I cannot support Obama because of his liberal views, there is still a small sense of pride that we have finally gotten to the point where one of our own has a legitimate chance to be President. For whites it may not seem like such a big deal, mainly because every President and major candidate has been a white man, but for blacks it is a huge deal. So in that sense race was always going to be a factor once Obama became a truly viable candidate. br> -- Eric Edwards br> Walnut Cove, North Carolina /p>

The tragedy of campaign '08 is the presidential choices facing the American people:

p>(a) A dishonest, untrustworthy, race-bating, deceitful, congenitally lying female. br> (b) A slow on the uptake (20 year) pew sitting, prevaricating, unaccomplished tarnished messiah. br> (c) A bitter, angry, imperious (listen to me), confused (I am conservative), anti-free speech, yes tax-no tax RINO. /p> p>Everyone in favor of a do-over, including brokered conventions, raise your hands. br> -- Wolf Terner /p>

R. Emmett Tyrrell is missing the point. Obama doesn't have a racial problem. That is merely a symptom of the larger disease: the man who was supposed to be "above it all" has been revealed as just another ambitious hack -- whose claim that he "didn't know" who Rev. Wright really was strains credibility.

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