Saint Barack Obama, the post-racial candidate sent from on high to redeem the racist American nation, is now engaging in the healing politics of Hope and Change by preemptively accusing his opponents of racism:

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.

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“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”

I admired Barack Obama back when he was the first black presidential candidate not to play the race card. But after learning about Reverend Wright and witnessing Obama’s feeble efforts to explain why he spent 20 years eagerly lapping up sermons from Chicago’s version of Al Sharpton, it became clear that Obama wasn’t some new kind of post-racial healer. He’s just better at hiding who he really is.

And now that he’s saying Republicans will attack his race before it has even happened, Obama shows that he’s not above playing the race card whenever it suits him.

What a phony this guy is.