I am Not a racist!

I don’t know about you but I am sick and tired of being called one just because I am a republican . For the last several weeks I’ve listened and read as the mainstream media has blasted on about how Kentucky, West Virginia, and other heartland states aren’t going well for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama because of his race. As a New Yorker and a former Kentuckian and a member of the latest two states to be accused of blanket hatred as an excuse for Obama’s losses here, I am becoming more than a bit agitated. Let’s be honest. If Obama were a white man and had won the state of Kentucky against Hillary Clinton, then all of us labeled as gun toting, God fearing, rednecks would have been accused of gender hatred for voting against a woman. According to the mainstream media, including the larger print outlets of this state, we’re all bigots of some sort. I am offended and I find this broad generalization of my voting habits to be both wrong and more than a bit ironic. The illustrious press and their bobble-headed intellectuals are having a heyday making the case that Barack Obama’’s poor performance here is a result of deep seeded racism by uneducated voters. For instance, the first exit poll question in West Virginia after their rimary was, "How many years of high school did you complete?" Not "who did you vote for" or "why did you choose the candidate you chose," but basically, "can you read and write?" How is this not bigoted on the part of the media funded research group to frame their poll with such questions? They appear never to have stopped to think that Obama’s double digit losses in areas like this could have more to do with an offense he committed against us rather than one we theoretically committed against him. Does anyone remember his small town America clinging to guns, God and bitterness comment? I’m not bitter –– I’m just mad. The mainstream media has assumed that Kentuckians, who chose another candidate over Obama by a wide margin, could only be doing so because of his race. It’s as if they are saying, "Don’’t those poor uneducated country bumpkins see the throngs of people fainting at Obama’s feet? There is no excuse for this because we know they all have satellite!" I propose some different reasons that many of us aren’t voting for Barack Obama. It may have something to do with his upbringing by a mother who was a member of the Communist anti-western movement. It may have something to do with one of his early mentors, Frank Marshall Davis, who was a card carrying member of the Moscow linked Communist Party of America. Or perhaps his later mentor, the infamous 60’’s radical Marxist agitator, Saul Alinsky. Or it could be Obama’’s "friendly" association with the former Weather Underground terrorist, William C. Ayers. Maybe it’’s that flag lapel pin thing. In and of itself, it’s not that big of a deal whether a candidate wears a flag lapel pin or not, but coupled with his other statements and with Obama’’s wife’’s recent declaration that for the first time in her "adult life" she was ""proud of America,"" it leaves a lot of us proud Americans with some big questions about this guy. Really, Mrs. Obama, the first time you can be proud of America?
You mean you couldn’t be proud when in 1955 Rosa Parks showed the true meaning of the American Spirit and chose not to give up her seat on the bus? Or when in 1964 the hideous Jim Crow laws were abolished by the civil rights act? Or in the 1980’’s when the iron curtain fell and democracy trumped communism? Are the Obamas so self-centered that they are blinded to all of the good things about America?