A white candidate (Joe Biden, for example) probably could have gotten away with that comment. But to hear it from a guy whose own life has been nothing more than a race-based diatribe is just too much. The Obama campaign knows this all too well -- which is why that bigfoot-looking creature Michelle has been kept out of public view for the last few weeks.
By the time Wednesday rolls around, I predict that a lot of moderate people in the media are going to start referring to Barack Obama as "President Dinkins."
“I think it has everything to do with the color of Barack Obama...”
I think Americans of all colors are fed up with his incompetence to one degree or another. People are not voting against him because he’s black or they wouldn’t have elected him in the first place. This whole “revenge” thing just solidifies the point in people’s minds - we need jobs not political revenge.