http://townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2008/03/14/playing_by_obamas_rules

I was thinking about the situation with the statements given by Geraldine Ferraro:

"If Obama was a white man he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up with the concept."

Obama, said about the remarks:

"I don't think Geraldine Ferraro's comments have any place in our politics or in the Democratic Party. They are divisive. I think anybody who understands the history of this country knows they are patently absurd," he told the Allentown Morning Call. "And I would expect that the same way those comments don't have a place in my campaign they shouldn't have a place in Senator Clinton's either."

People got all upset, said she's injecting race (which is injected anyways), and people generally weren't happy. But, why? I guess I couldn't understand what the hubbub is about this. He is where he is because he's black, isn't he? Black voters are out in force voting for him, because he's black. Romney won Utah because he's Mormon, Huckabee won the bible belt because he's evangelical. Clinton gets some female voters because she a woman. Obviously, Obama gets votes because he's black.

Don't get me wrong, I think Obama is a fantastic speaker (if I said he's articulate, then I too may be called racist). He's someone who can pump people up, and he seems like someone people would want to follow. I do believe this has indeed helped him as well. However, being that his support has grown while having no real policy to speak of, it can't all be that he's a great orator (there are some great orators in history who ended up having some pretty bad policies).

Anyways, I have to say I agree with Buchanan on this one. I don't think what Ferraro said was "wrong". In a sense, it's hard to say it's not right. I don't really care, but I do care that you can't seem to say anything negative about Obama without then being called a racist. But, I'll wager if he lost to McCain, people would be all about saying it's because he's black.

For me, white, black, male, female.. I don't care. I just want someone who's not going to tax me to death, and take the country in a good direction.