BTW I am voting for Obama yet I think that to discount these recent media spectacles as mere coincidence is “beyond stupid”. They are clearly meant to appeal to white voters. It is indeed racist but to win the presidency in a white-dominated country you must appeal to the majority and distance yourself from things less appealing to the mainstream. I think it is a great strategy to clinch the election. White people (and other races) are going to feel more comfortable voting for a black man who has taken a stand against the unsavory aspects of the black community. All the more convincing that Jackson is lashing out at Obama, conveniently on the air. This is an old-school technique, you can even see it in Hitchcock’s North By Northwest.

As my good friend (who is black) puts it: Southern white people aren’t going to vote for a half-black son-of-a-nigger-lovin’ mother and a muslim father.

Go ahead, be offended, pull the race card, I don’t care.