Obama's campaign is orchestrating the trumped-up racism brouhaha (see the Obama campaign memo that Taylor Marsh acquired).

Obama wants to guilt-trip every black voter into voting for him. He needs black voters in South Carolina, a state he desperately needs to win to stay viable after his New Hampshire loss. (Pundits say if Obama loses South Carolina, he's finished. So far, he's behind Clinton in the polls.) That's what is behind Michael Eric Dyson flapping his gums on every talk show and that Obama campaign memo that gives Obama-ites talking points to promote this fabricated issue.

On Wednesday, Obama warned us to expect a "Chicago smackdown" -- a reference to the shady, brutal, mobbed-up world of Chicago politics with which Obama is intimately familar. But now he and his campaign are resorting to low-brow, trumped-up racism?  (For a while, it seemed that Obama would avoid Al Sharpton-esque B.S., but the New Hampshire results shook him badly. His deflation was written all over his face and in his body language. It's a sad mark of decline to see such a smart, highly educated man resort to such tactics. Further, it harms the fight against real racism.)  

The Obama campaign started playing the race card immediately after Obama lost New Hampshire with Jackson Jr., then upped the dialogue with Dyson, going further with the above press release. Playing the race card before South Carolina? It fits right in with the ugly politics that is regularly seen in that state every time the presidential primaries roll around. (Taylor Marsh)

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