“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”–Barack Obama

Thus speaketh the “transcendent” candidate on June 20, claiming Republicans will use race to make Americans “afraid of him.” Memo to Sen. Obama: Americans have plenty to fear from you–and race has nothing to do with it.

You may be shocked to hear that there are still Americans who believe, among other things, in self-reliance, low taxes, limited government, integral borders, national security and increasing domestic energy supplies. There are many of us who intuitively understand that “yes we can”–the elevation of everyone–is impossible to achieve without “yes I can”–the accomplishment of individuals. Individuals you and your party see as little more than human ATMs necessary to finance your socialist ambitions.

There are still plenty of us “fearful” Americans who have lived long enough to know the phrase “government solutions” is nothing more than yet another attempt to confiscate greater amounts of what we earn to fund an over-bloated, largely ineffective ruling class with an ever-growing appetite for control and power.

As for the “race card,” who do you think you’re kidding? This is nothing more than a preemptive strategy designed to allow you, your party and your media sycophants–and no one else–to decide which criticism of your candidacy is “legitimate” and which is “racist.” And only a true Orwellain could actually play the race card in order to complain that someone else might play it.

But since you brought race up, let’s get into it. The term for a person born to one white parent and one black parent is “mulatto.” Yet you refer to yourself as black. That suggests you buy into one of most racist concepts ever perpetrated in the history of America: “one drop of black blood” equals blackness. For the “post-racial” candidate that’s quite a leap–backward.

Perhaps you’ve never contemplated such extrapolations regarding race. But I don’t doubt for a second you will exploit the subject for one over-riding reason: as of now you are the least-vetted presidential candidate in modern political history. Your preemptive injection of the race card into the general campaign is a rather ham-fisted attempt to keep it that way. Otherwise, the public might come to know exactly who you are. For a candidate whose campaign has been long on style and short on substance, that might be “problematic.”

Maybe it isn’t Americans who are afraid of you, Senator Obama. Maybe it’s the other way around.

atahlert@comcast.net

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