I typically try to avoid race politics, but some occasions require comment. It angers me when people assume……

It’s too bad that its major premise is a rather large logical fallacy.

Regarding the very first quote you cited by Sen. Obama, you seem to have incorrectly paraphrased his comments as, “All Republicans are racist,” when what he really said was, “Racists are more likely to vote Republican”. An easily made semantic mistake, to be sure, but a rather large one in terms of meaning.

Also, if anyone else bothered to click the link to the second citation in your article, they’d read that Republicans as well as Democrats will vote for the other party’s candidate if they are of the same race. While you are correct in saying that some Democrats unfairly paint themselves as the “race-friendly” candidate, the Washington Post article merely says that there is still a long way to go in eliminating race as a factor in people’s political beliefs - a goal which should be held by both parties.

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