Waaaaaah! RACIST!!

I guess it was only a matter of time. A matter of less than 24 hours in this case.

The Associated Press is carrying an article today titled “Analysis:  Palin’s words carry racial tinge.” (No link here; I’ll link at the bottom if you want to see it.  Wouldn’t want to accidentally give AP more traffic.)

The article itself, written by Douglass K. Daniel, an ‘Associated Press Writer,’ says of Palin’s attacks on Obama yesterday:

[T]hough she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.

The bulk of the article follows, whining about how unfair the attack is and how it changes the subject from the really important issues — mentioning McCain’s support for the unpopular bailout while neglecting to mention that Obama supported it as well.

Obama spokesman AP writer Daniel comes back to the charges of racism near the end.  Here are the last five paragraphs in their entirety (my emphasis):

In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers’ day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate.

Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.

Most troubling, however, is how allowing racism to creep into the discussion serves McCain’s purpose so well. As the fallout from Wright’s sermons showed earlier this year, forcing Obama to abandon issues to talk about race leads to unresolved arguments about America’s promise to treat all people equally.

John McCain occasionally looks back on decisions with regret. He has apologized for opposing a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He has apologized for refusing to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina’s Capitol.

When the 2008 campaign is over McCain might regret appeals such as Palin’s perhaps more so if he wins.

Golly.  Just another appeal to racism from the McCain camp.

How pathetic and shameless can you be?  (Hint: I’m not talking about McCain.)

Oh, and here’s a link to the article.