Mama, we're all racists, now?

Bookworm has decided that since it appears that over the next few months he/she will be called a de facto racist for not voting for Obama, it’s time to beat them to the smackdown…or…smackdown their planned beating:

As for me, because I’m preemptively being defined as a racist (since I most certainly won’t vote for Obama), I’ve decided to step up to the plate and embrace that definition. From here on in, I’ve got my mantra.

When I vote against Obama on November 4, 2008:

* It won’t be because Obama wants to withdraw from Iraq, which I think will weaken America’s interests beyond repair, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama thinks that a nuclear Iran is no threat to the Western World, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because I think it’s an incredibly stupid idea for the most powerful nation in the world to approach evil totalitarian dictators as a supplicant, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because I hate the idea of a President who will subordinate America’s interests to the UN (as he inevitably will), it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama has the thinnest resume ever in the history of Presidential candidates, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because I think Obama’s Leftist connections (Ayres, Dohrn, Soros, Pfleger, Wright, etc.) show him to be either stupid about or complicit with an agenda antithetical to basic American values, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama consistently chooses as advisers people who have opted for the wrong side in the completely binary debate about Israel’s right to exist, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama wants to socialize American medicine, which I believe will destroy the high quality of medical care available to most Americans, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama wants to gut the military and reduce us to a nation with a big target painted on our collective backside, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama wants to gut the Second Amendment and destroy Americans’ Constitutional right to protect themselves from foreign and domestic enemies, it will be because I’m a racist.
* It won’t be because Obama has already announced loud and clear that he will support activist judges who place their “feelings” above the law, it will be because I’m a racist.

That’s only about the half of it. Comes of being fed up with having legitimate concerns reduced to a conversation-stopping charge of “racism.” I don’t think the “racism” narrative has been too overt yet – Comedy Clubs aside, but hey – nothing like heading a posse off at the pass.

Paragraph Farmer has Impertinent Questions for Team Obama

Prairie Pundit responds to Andrew Greeley’s race fixation. He makes the observation – made before – that if you’re certain this election is all about race, you’re probably a Democrat.