H. keeps making statements that suggest the Republicans are going to play the race card, but he continually is the one who is playing it himself. The typical liberal tactic of demonizing your opponent is evident in his statements. Is he saying that McCain is racist? That doesn't seem to be the case, but he is suggesting that, in general, Republicans are racist. Meanwhile, the Republicans haven't brought up his race at all, other than to respond to him bringing it up. That's a bit ironic, dontcha' think?

In addition, he claims the Republicans are going to try to make people afraid of voting for him, because "he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." Well, here's some news for Barack Hussein Obama: many of us are afraid of him being the president, but not because of anything having to do with his race.

I'm afraid that if he's president he will:

• weaken our national security by cutting the budget for the military;
  
• weaken our national security by treating terrorists and their acts as criminal cases, rather than acts of war, which is what they are;
  
• weaken our national security by being a naive player on the world stage who thinks that if we could just make other countries like us, our problems will go away;
  
• weaken our national security by appeasing our enemies rather than by standing up to them;
  
• weaken our economy by raising taxes and redistributing the money to the "less fortunate," or in other words, take money from responsible people who create wealth and move it into the hands of irresponsible and/or lazy people who create no wealth or benefit to society;
  
• punish those who create jobs, via the aforementioned raising of taxes;
  
• and institute reforms that make people more dependent on the government rather than on their own self-reliance.
  

Other reasons to fear his presidency include:

• he is completely inexperienced for the job;
  
• he claims to be embarrased by his own country-men;
  
• he associates with very questionable people and/or known terrorists, such as Reverend Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Ali Abunimah, William Ayers, Hatem El-Hady, Tony Rezko, and Ludacris, just to name a few;
  
• and his complete misunderstanding of the values of Middle America.
  

And that's only a partial list. So you see, Mr. Obama, we have many reasons to fear you being president that have nothing to do with race. So perhaps you should stop playing that card and address the very real issues that we are afraid of.

Will he do it? I doubt it; the race card is easier.