Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Here is a fascinating blog post by Peter Wehner, who is always interesting. At some point during his popularity free fall, Barack Obama is going to play the race card. He is going to say, or at least imply, that his support is plummeting because Americans are racist. His sycophants in the media, such as Keith Olbermann, Eugene Robinson, and Frank Rich, will trumpet this charge, hoping thereby to (1) intimidate Obama's critics and (2) intensify white guilt, the latter of which was instrumental in getting Obama elected. The charge of racism will fail, however, for the simple reason that Obama has already been elected. Did Americans become racist between November 2008 and now? That's absurd. Either they were racist all along, which makes it hard to explain Obama's election, or they're not racist at all. Americans will resent having the race card played against them and will throw the Marxist bum out on his rather large ears, just as they did Jimmy Carter in 1980. Obama will go down in history as a fraud, someone who pretended to be something he was not. His name will become synonymous with "charlatanry."