I’m nearing a breaking point regarding the incessant race-baiting coming from liberals. Is it really true that anyone sharing an anti-Obama opinion is racist? I’m pretty sure not. Wasn’t it Obama himself who said “they’ll try to tell you that I don’t look like all the other men on the dollar bills?” Up to that point, and after that point, I never heard McCain/Palin, or any respectable Republican, call attention to Obama’s skin color. And still haven’t.

Just today Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) equated Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) outburst during Obama’s joint session as klan-like. What? Wilson called Obama a liar not a (insert non-PC term here).

Maureen Dowd wrote that Wilson “clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber.” What?

Derrick Jackson provided the Boston Globe a glowing expose linking the GOPs choice of Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) for post-address comments as part of a polarization strategy in play since 1969. Jackson writes “You do not have to wonder why, when Louisiana was one of the most polarized states in the presidential election. Eighty-four percent of white voters voted for Republican John McCain, despite the disastrous economy and two wars handed them by McCain’s standard-bearer, President Bush.” Hear that Louisiana? Start believing the bad economy was Bush’s fault and middle eastern freedom isn’t worth our time or you will be branded a racist. Well, too late, you already have been.

Does Jackson know that approximately 95% of blacks in North Carolina voted for Obama? Aren’t those blacks equally racist in supporting a 140-day Senator with no executive experience charged with fixing a bad economy and fighting two wars? 

And over the week-end, on a local message board, a poster listed several facts regarding Obama’s policies and affiliations (which are not flattering by any sense of the word). A responder all but called him/her a racist.

So allow me to pon-pon-pon-pon-pontifinicate on the matter.

Obama supporters, whether black, white, Democrat, independent, etc, have erected a persona of a man that simply does not exist. Sure, he is educated and a good orator. He is a visionary, good father and probably a pretty nice guy with which to drink a beer. But he is also a politician and like all politicians before him, he is only as honest as he needs to be to fulfill his administration/party’s agenda.

He has not been transparent as he had promised. He has not been bipartisan as he had promised. He has not been fiscally fugal as he had promised. He has not turned his back to lobbyists and special interests as he had promised.

Many plain ole Americans simply do not like the fact that he interjected himself into GM’s bankruptcy. They don’t like GE’s CEO Jeffery Immelt sitting on the board of New York’s Federal Reserve. They’re not comfortable that a radical like Anthony Van Jones was appointed to any post in the administration. They don’t like our foreign policy appearing weak in the knees. Oddly enough, some don’t want the federal government messing in healthcare, not ensuring enforcement of illegal immigrant’s non-participation until being called a liar during a joint session.