“The snide tone of many of the comments here — perhaps it is apropo the fawning approval of Mrs. Palin, who has been described by some of her fellow Alaskans as racist, vindictive, and mean.”

Perhaps KD’s racial fixation is natural given its fawning approval of Obama, who by his own admission failed to confront admitted black supremacists for decades on end. Fascinating that, even though an Anchorage newspaper debunked the “Sambo” story, it’s PALIN’s racism that is the problem here. Maybe I’ve been hearing things wrong, and it is she who for 20 years was too complacent to stand up to the racism inherent in Black liberation theology.

We were supposed to be witnessing a post-racial political campaign. Instead, the first impulse of many Obama supporters is to accuse his critics and the opposing ticket of racism, instead of questioning whether his policies are really in the nation’s best interest.