YUP, THEY'LL PLAY THE RACE CARD ONCE AGAIN

The fact that racism is alive and well in America was again brought home to me by the despicable comments on AOL about the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. The recent flap over Pastor Wright has encouraged the racists again. First, Jonathan Martin of the Politico notes that the GOP is salivating over the opportunities to swift-boat Obama:

In their view, the inflammatory sermons by Obama’s pastor offer the party a pathway to victory if Obama emerges as the Democratic nominee. Not only will the video clips enable some elements of the party to define him as unpatriotic, they will also serve as a powerful motivating force for the conservative base.

Not surprisingly, one of the Noise Machine tenders has contributed a video:

"Is Obama Wright" splices together the most inflammatory language of Jeremiah Wright with a series of other issues that have arisen in the campaign, all of which have been fodder for a series of emails that question Obama's loyalty to the country.
Rather the incendiary video -- which also includes footage of Malcolm X, the U.S. Olympians who raised their hand in the black power salute and the song "Fight the Power" -- is in part the amateur work of Lee Habeeb.

A co-founder and former producer of the Laura Ingraham Show, Habeeb is the director of strategic content at Salem Radio Network, the conservative talk radio powerhouse that airs programs hosted by figures such as Bill Bennett and Hugh Hewitt.

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