Kathleen Parker: It's time for all the pre-election race-card politics to go away
If Obama loses, it will be his own un-doing. Meanwhile, no one questions why 95 percent of blacks support the president. Is it racial? Or is it simply that most African-Americans happen to be Democrats?
Sununu implied the former, hinting that Powell chose Obama out of racial loyalty. I wish Sununu hadn't gone there. Had Powell endorsed Romney, he'd be a GOP hero, just as he now is to Democrats who have managed to overlook his convincing support for the weapons of mass destruction hypothesis in Iraq.
So it goes. But even the netherworld of politics should have standards. To pre-emptively label people racist for favoring a candidate who happens to be white, and otherwise advancing a narrative that will create only racial animus should Obama lose, is implicitly biased, unfair and a breach of good faith. Stop it.
Kathleen Parker's email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.
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race card politics going away? HA! Right. This is THE main platform of team Obama and their lap dog media. Take away the race card and what are you left with? Issues and actual governing. OUCH!! The dem's want nothing of campaigning on their More..
The fact remains that racism (either explicit or implicit) is a factor in this election. The only question is the extent. The Southern Strategy of Richard Nixon continues to this day and Republican strategists take advantage of prejudice and More..
the AP already ran an article laying the groundwork to blame racism if BO loses. It ran in Sunday's print edition of the DN. I don't know when it ran on-line