Time's Beinart: Republicans Hate Obama For His Kenyan Father, it's 'Racism'

publiusforum.com ^ | 10/11/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

This furious beating of the racism drum by the left shows how worried they are that Barack Obama might lose this election. Time Magazine's Peter Beinart once again charges "racism" against anyone that won't support Barack Obama. But, Beinart adds a twist to his accusation. It isn't just his race that is being held against him, in Beinart's eyes it is the fact that Obama has "foreign roots" that causes "whites" to mistrust him. But, like everyone blinded by the flash of the race card he doesn't see that it isn't racism that causes moderates and conservatives to shy from Obama. No, it isn't his relative blackness that people are against, it's his redness. Beinart misunderstands the simple fact that it's Obama's unAmerican ideals makes him not "American enough" to get the support of millions of Americans.

As the Time headline asks "is he American enough," Beinart delves into what he sees as the "Racist" claim that Barack's foreign father is offputting to "white" Americans. He posits that this is the main reason why people cannot warm to Obama. Then Beinart claims that the strategy of the McCain campaign is one of "using race to make Obama seem anti-American." Beinart says these "attacks" are hurting Obama in the polls with "working-class whites." He also seems to say that the whole campaign is filled with code words such as questioning what "kind of person" he is. These all culminate into a racist attack that undermines Obama.

Beinart thinks he knows why it works so well against Obama, too...

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[IndianPrincessOK]

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I just saw on Fox Obama saying that McCain is being racist .....yep, there are starting the drumbeat...so that when Corsi is on Hannity next week with proof about Obama/Odinga that he can say...yep, racism!! Unbelievable what con artist the Dem party is. Amazing. I truly think this will backfire as it is a reminder to voters that THIS guy is not only black, but a radical with strong ties to Kenyan/muslim/radical Odinga that HE ignored his counsins call for genocide....when he lost his election. Sound familar????

[driftless2]

The whole racism thing propagated by the left is a crock, and they know it. What they're really afraid of is more Americans being exposed to Obama's radical and scandal-plagued past. No other candidate would have gotten as far as Obama has with the same resume of radical leftist, anti-American haters, and outright crooks.

The fact that neither McCain or Palin have ever mentioned his skin color must drive these leftist scribblers mad. They've been predicting since the Anointed One has been nominated that the Pubbies would use race as a vehicle to defeat him. Instead they're the ones using race to try to get him across the finish line. The sorriest example of this is their rotten attempts to equate criticizing Obama's strong relationship with Ayers as being racist because many terrorists are Muslims. That's so laughably inane and insipid only a brain-dead lib like Beinart would believe it.

[dforest]

Where do these people come up with this?

How about asking republicans if this is true.

A POS like this is the real racist.