"Hang that darky from a tree!"

The campaign released this statement in response to questions about encounters with racism: "After campaigning for 15 months in nearly all 50 states, Barack Obama and our entire campaign have been nothing but impressed and encouraged by the core decency, kindness, and generosity of Americans from all walks of life. The last year has only reinforced Senator Obama's view that this country is not as divided as our politics suggest."

I'm curious, Softail, what are you saying? All right wingers are racists, or all racists are right wingers?

...the race is not over yet.

Tue May 13, 1:31 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's wave of superdelegate endorsements puts him within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination by the end of the primary season on June 3 -- even if he loses half of the remaining six contests.

The Illinois senator has picked up 26 superdelegates in the past week. At that pace, he will reach the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination -- 2,025 -- in the next three weeks, when delegates from the remaining primaries are included.

It's not "if" but "when" and "how" she can exit gracefully (and still get some of her money back.)

The only implication was in regard to a previous post where someone had stated that blacks hung in trees have been "pushing up daisies now for generations."

I'd like to see where a statement of this nature was made, Softail.

You know, those pics are of incidents committed by people who have been pushing up daisies now for generations.

whether it's the ones who committed the crimes or the ones who were the victims of the crimes, the fact that they're pushing up daises, reparation aside, makes it all less significant and therefore not applicable to this day and age?

In what way is it 'applicable' to this day and age other than to foment discord and further divide people by bringing it up?

People making statements such as "hang darky by the tree," deserves some analysis.

Continued progress requires acknowledging both how far we've come and how far is left to go.

"Fomenting discord" is a term could be applied just as successfully towards the likes of Rush Limbaugh

...not to mention the other below-the-belt tactics employed by the right wing

Obama, who only wants a chance to change what is broken in this country.

While the focus has been on Obama's "character," you have to ask yourself if he would be under as much scrutiny if he was a white man.

Where is the justice in assassinating the character of one black man and not the characters of the other candidates, who just happen to be white?

There is plenty of dirt there to play in.

At least Obama has the decency to not shoot below the belt in response to everything that has been thrown at him.

...many Americans have sniffed out the underlying tones of racism.

Well, now, you can only base that statement on what he has said he wants to do. None of us know what he will do, or what he will be allowed to do, once he is in office.

It's not a tea party, it's a fight to the death.