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• Sunday, March 30, 2008 08:44 PM

  KateTex

  Thanks for that link to the race card article. I have felt all along that everything the Clintons and their surrogates have said, most of which has been both benign and true, has been completely and intentionally distorted by Obama supporters, and then repeated ad nauseum until the distortion becomes commonly accepted fact among those who haven't been following events closely.

  And, to those of you who are about to call me a racist Republican Clinton-shill hope-killer, you can bite me. I don't have to agree with lolcait's bizarre laundry list or be a Klanner to see the obvious, that Obama has been playing the race card to his benefit from the start.

  Anyone who thinks this Ivy-educated, book-writing rich kid from the sunny suburbs of Hawaii, this guy who attended a church he must now distance himself from in order to be "black enough" for Chicago, this kid who was raised by his white mother and grandmother but nevertheless romanticizes his father to the tune of a spectacular book deal, is actually more interested in hope than he is in power is absolutely stupid. The Clintons are interested in power, but at least they're honest about it. Obama is so disappointing because he is just like everyone else, but lies about it.

  If you want to see a man who could very well be in Obama's shoes right now, but has chosen to do some real, tangible good in the world instead, just look up Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey. Here's a guy who not only has ideas about hope, but a track record of action and responsibility. It's clear from the way he lives his life that people like Obama have no idea what real change looks like or how to possibly bring it about.

  —Rosenkavalier Read Rosenkavalier's other letters
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