It looks like the democrats are looking for a distraction from the beating they are taking over issues like the economy, the unemployment rates, and the health care issue. They seem to think that they have found it by invoking the race card into the political debate. The democrats have a history of bringing up the issue of race when they feel it forwards their agenda. This time they may have overplayed their hand.

    Starting with the tea party protestors and their recent march on Washington DC, the participants have been referred to as racists and right wing radicals. Then, we have Congressman Joe Wilson who erupted and called President Obama a liar during his joint congressional speech. He was immediately deemed a racist and the charge for digging into his past to find evidence to support the claim. Everyone agreed on both sides of the aisle that this was unacceptable behavior and the man apologized twice to the White House, not that this was enough for Congress. They felt the need for more grandstanding and to get as much traction out of it as they could, again, to deflect from the real issues at hand. They called for formal censure of Wilson. The interesting issue here, is that Wilson shouted out what many Americans were thinking. Obama was lying through his teeth by stating that illegal aliens would not be able to get health coverage under their plan. Obama called people liars all through his speech that was speaking ill of his health care plan. Evidence that there was some truth to Wilson’s claim came when the Senate rushed to make changes to their bill to remedy the illegal alien issue.

    The democrats have become race baters in the political debate. Their premise states that if you dare disagree with Obama’s policies, then you are a racist. Who but the worst president in American history brought this all to the fore front than Jimmy Carter? He stated that most of the people that criticized Obama were racially intolerant and could not tolerate the fact that a black man is president. Then he went on to insult the entire southern region by reminding us that he was from the south, therefore, he is an expert on recognizing bigotry. This is ironic coming from one of the biggest anti-semites around. During his failure of a presidency, he undermined the State of Israel at every turn and continues to do so today with his visits to Gaza, his embracing of Hamas, and the Palestinian cause. Mr. Carter should know about racism and should spend more time looking in the mirror and less time trying to stay in the lime light. He should fade off into irrelevance from whence he came. Then we have the likes of Maureen Dowd who wrote an article about Congressman Wilson. In all of her infinite wisdom, she  assessed the situation and decided that racism was Wilson’s motivation. She hoped to encite further by stating that, with her selective hearing, she heard Wilson shout, “You lie boy!” She was the only one to hear this. Dowd is a disgrace to journalism and is at the center of what is wrong with the so called mainstream media today which doesn’t objectively report news anymore, but selects sides and ideologies, hence slanted news.

    Democrats are overplaying their hand this time using race to distract. They are opening Pandora’s box and are not prepared to deal with the consequences of this. It was liberals that stated that America had turned a corner by electing the first black man to the highest office in the land and hailed that racism was becoming a thing of the past. Wasn’t it democrats who stated that debate and dissent was the height of patriotism as liberals pounded George W. bush and the Iraq War? What happened? The same black man is still the president. We have dissent and debate going on. The problem is, that many Americans are discovering that Obama is not the centrist he ran his candidacy on. Instead he is radically far left. He was smart enough to know that no one wins the White House too far left of center, so he “lied!” Obama is trying to transform this country into something unrecognizable and the people are no longer sitting back and accepting it. So now we are all racists. I am a black conservative so therefore, I am a racist and a race trader, as so many of my fellow black brethren have referred to me, who are hopelessly enslaved to the Democratic Party. The democrats have overplayed their hand because the people are not going to be silenced and have debate shut down because of the accusation of racism. Why should we? The opposition is gaining the upper hand, the Obama Administration is failing miserably. Unemployment is still rising. It looks like health care is facing defeat and the irony here, is that this is occurring at the hands of Obama’s own party. The democrats have no excuses and no one to blame for their situation because they rule the White House and Capitol Hill.

    The lesson to be learned here is that racism is a two way street. There are whites that dislike blacks but there are also blacks who dislike whites as well.  Recently, on the Mike Gallagher Radio Show, a black man called in and told Mike that he hated all republicans. Mike asked him why?  He responded by saying that, “because all of them are white.” This shows how ignorant people are that hate because of race on all sides. If this black guy had done his homework, he would realize that there are blacks that are republicans as well, such as myself. The Republican Party has a black man at the helm of leadership, Michael Steele. President Obama’s candidacy was supposed to transcend race and bring change. Obama needs to take leadership on this issue and put the issue of “dissent equals racism” to rest before his own party sets back race relations by decades and lights a powder keg that won’t be pretty for any of us when it explodes.