Obama & the race card......

The Republican primary race is finally down to one man; Mitt Romney. The dogma driven Rick Santorum bailed. Take you pick of the reasons why: family reasons relating to an ill and mentally challenged young daughter,  a seriously dwindling campaign chest, high  probability Rick would lose to Romney in Rick's home state of Pennsylvania.

Ron Paul remains in the race. The reasons for his staying on are about as vague as his political philosophy and chances of winning more than 10% of the vote.

The historical revisionist with all four feet in his mouth, Newton Leroy Gingrich, also remains. He is happy as a pig in a hog wallow and is already counting future primary votes for himself that would have otherwise gone to Santorum. Newt has one big enemy that, try as he might, he cannot defeat. Namely, himself. Claiming the title of the 'last remaining Conservative" with a rhetoric more befitting to the "Last of the Mohicans" our steadfast lad is so cocooned in himself that he knows not whether it is sunny or raining. Romney will be the nominee failing any major disaster and, as you well know, disasters in politics are as frequent as drought in Texas.

The sad truth for the Republicans is they are disunited, suffering a schismatic rift between their moderates and far right Tea Party Conservatives and have failed to produce a candidate capable of capturing the allegiance of the American public. Sadder still, were the presidential vote held today, Obama would win.

Predictions are that this presidential race will be down and dirty. I take that to mean vicious attacks by anonymous backers such as Political Action Committees against the vulnerable underbelly of each candidate. In Mitts case it is his religion and in O's case it is his race. O got a racial pass when he was elected the first time, but I doubt he will get another given his silence over growing racial incidents and issues.

One glaring example is the offer of a $10,000 reward  by the Black Panther Party for George Zimmerman dead or alive. George, a Hispanic American, is accused of murdering a young black person. The vigilante character of this offer is not consistent with our dedication to rule of law, yet has not been challenged by the President or his Attorney General. There are numerous other examples of black inspired crime, discontent and threats that have transpired without White House comment.

There is also a growing feeling that minorities, including black people, are taking advantage of expanding welfare benefits to the point where we now have large segments of society dependent upon entitlements. The media is playing this up big time as are right wing talk show hosts and political commentators. One could write a compelling sociological thesis on this subject and its antecedents. Bookstores are full of previous efforts in this direction and generally play on white guilt over slavery and abuses against blacks during and after that period and continuing up to the present day.

In short, many blacks in America believe they have a good excuse to live off of society. Efforts by other black and white citizens to inspire socially-dependent blacks to become employed, be responsible, and become part of mainstream American society have largely failed. My call is that this issue will be placed in O's lap during the campaign and it may get out of hand as blacks could well take umbrage for a variety of reasons.

Let's hope not.