Democrats demean the President with their charges of phantom racisim

Jonah Goldberg:

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I know some people take this 'birther' stuff very seriously. But I find the whole thing ludicrous. Apparently, if Romney jokes about Obama's birth certificate, white Americans will suddenly notice the president is black. But when Obama jokes about his birth certificate — or even hawks birther-themed swag on his campaign website, it's all in good fun. 

Unfortunately, the claim that Romney is trafficking in racism has proliferated. His ads attacking Obama for unwinding the 1996 welfare reform are being denounced as not simply inaccurate, but racially loaded. 

For instance, in a piece titled "Making the Election About Race," Columbia University journalism school professor Thomas Edsall writes, "The racial overtones of Romney's welfare ads are relatively explicit" — an interesting analysis given that the ads explicitly don't mention race, which you'd expect to be a minimum requirement of "explicit" racial overtones. 

However, Edsall concedes that the racial overtones of Romney's Medicare ads are "a bit more subtle." Those ads charge that Obama raided Medicare to pay for Obamacare. Then Edsall notes that Medicare recipients are "overwhelmingly white." He conveniently leaves out the fact that American seniors are overwhelmingly white as well and, if anything, under-enrolled in Medicare. 

Odd how Democrats have been "mediscaring" for nearly half a century, yet only Republicans are racist for appealing to "overwhelmingly" white Medicare recipients. 

Here in Tampa, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told BuzzFeed that the Democrats are playing "the race card" in order to gin up black turnout. I'm sure that's true, but they're also trying to transform Romney into the ultimate unacceptable other in American politics — a bigot (and a Mormon one to boot). Still, I also have no doubt that Dyson, Edsall and others in the media eagerly hyping the race angle are sincere in their beliefs; I just think they're wrong. 

But I think both the cynical and the sincere race-obsessives fail to fully appreciate the damage they're doing to their own cause. In 2008, the hope for many was that Obama would transcend race, moving the nation beyond the exhausting topic. Instead of a post-racial politics, our politics are saturated with ridiculous charges of racism. "No drama Obama" is instead a source of constant drama, often hyped in the most ludicrous ways.

The umbrage  comes across as phony to me.  Democrats have become the most race obsessed people in this country and they find normal discourse to be racist if it is a way to shut down a debate they are losing.  that is what all this talk of racism is really about.  they don't want to talk about Obama's policies and try to construe any objection to them as off limits and racist.  They are beclowning themselves and demeaning the President.

Back when Democrats were racist they used the same tactics to shut off debate accusing their opposition of loving blacks.  It is all from the same old playbook just coming from the opposite side of the field.  It is another reason I have so little respect for them.