No one honest can accuse Obama of playing the race card. Klintons have always played race cards and tried here and fell on their faces. Even yesterday when they circulated the Somali-Elder picture, it was another attempt to play race-card and it backfired again as even Conservatives called that campaign ridiculous.
Really? Did you read the article? Did you note Drudge's source for that photo -- an anonymous private email between Clinton campaign staffers, not meant for public consumption. I imagine a lot of senders of Freepmail don't mean for their correspondence to appear on Drudge, either.
The author is obviously a Clinton supporter, but the Clintons are too damn politically savvy to intentionally stir the race pot. The problem with Republicans is that they've wallowed in Clinton-bashing so long, and are so positively ecstatic to see Hillary go down, that they can't see that the alternative, Obama, is a potential national disaster.
I loathe the Clintons, but Obama has played and will continue to play the race card, with superbly crafted plausible deniability. McCain is next on the radar. You can bet on it, and if he's true to form, he will groveling at the media's feet, begging forgiveness for some Obama-concocted racial slur that wasn't.