A few weeks ago, US Congressman and Libeler Jack Murtha said that “his racist constituents” were going to cost Barack Obama 4 points in the Keystone state. He later apologized for those remarks most likely because he is in a competitive campaign for re-election.

Well good old Baghdad Jack went and tried to clarify his remarks. He noted that “5 to 10 years ago the area was really redneck”, but that now the Western PA has became only “partially redneck” and that even the racist are changing their minds thanks to the Economic crisis. Of course, what makes this the much funnier is that Murtha supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries. So is Murtha then a converted Redneck because he had the nerve to oppose the Obamamessiah in the Primary?

This ranting from Obama and his backers claiming that anyone who opposes Obama is a racist, is going to serve as a self-fulling prophecy, that “The One” will lose because he is black. As Election Day nears and I am sure that the “a vote for McCain is a racist vote” chorus will grow louder, people who were inclined to vote Obama are going to be turned off because they will come to fear that the President’s disapproval rating under an Obama Presidency will instead become the National Racism Index, to coin a phrase from Jim Geraghty at NRO online.

By having his surrogates go out and say things as Murtha has and not go out publicly to denounce it is a defacto endorsement of Murtha’s rhetoric by Obama and shows that he is not this “post racial figure” (of course you could learn that from reading his book) he claims to be. Also if Powell wants to go on and on about how race had no role in his choice for President, why isn’t he defending white Democrats who have decided to cross party lines because they think the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Democratic Party has betrayed the Truman-Kennedy-Lieberman Democratic Party? Is a high ranking Democrat openly calling any white person votes against Obama a redneck as offensive as a high ranking Republican allegedly calling Obama a terrorist or Muslim? I want to know General.

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