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American Thinker: How Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the R-Bomb

There was a clever axiom floating around a few months ago that this year's presidential race would pit the only Republican capable of winning against the only Democrat capable of losing. And while bad choices by the McCain camp are largely responsible for dispelling the first half of that ephemeral adage, credit crunch anxiety actually shares tribute for destruction of the second with what can best be described as useful racism.

Sure, all GOP candidates seeking the White House are forced to deal with a national media so ensconced with de Facto Democratic campaign volunteers, it's amazing any ever get elected. But the skin color of their current candidate has created an irrational PC ecstasy amongst the fourth estate, one that finds them simultaneously agitating and exploiting racial divides to an extreme that borders slimy.

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