Liberals: everything's racist

  The predicted race card is being played by the Obama-ites at the New York Times and the Washington Post, oddly, in the same timeframe, right on schedule.
  Over at the NYT, Andrew Rosenthal complains that Republicans are being mean to POTUS, trying to hold him accountable; that Dems would never be as mean to a Republican POTUS; that calling Michelle Obama's rear end big is racist and disrespectful and wouldn't have happened to a white Republican FLOTUS; that anyone who talks about POTUS's missing grades, medical records or birth certificate is racist.

Talking about race in American politics is uncomfortable and awkward. But it has to be said: There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks leveled against President Obama for the last three years, and in this dawning presidential campaign. 

You can detect this undertone in the level of disrespect for this president that would be unthinkable were he not an African-American. Some earlier examples include: Rep. Joe Wilson shouting “you lie” at one of Mr. Obama’s first appearances before Congress, and House Speaker John Boehner rejecting Mr. Obama’s request to speak to a joint session of Congress—the first such denial in the history of our republic.

  Rosenthal doesn't bother to mention that what Joe Wilson said was true; that Obama was highly offensive to the SCOTUS in a first; that Boehner offered the next day instead because of security concerns. That Michelle Obama's ass is big.
 Chris Matthews viciously slams the Republican party as having picked up the "droppings" of the Democrat party (presumably their racism from past years), that like the segregationists have closed their minds about civil rights.
  
  Probably the most disturbing racist card that is being currently played today is in the WaPo, where sanctified Black writer Courtland Malloy observes that the Iowa caucuses had white people in them. That many Republicans are white.  

Looks to me like those who call themselves Republicans have coalesced around nothing more than their whiteness. What else could it be? Certainly not economic self-interest. 

Thomas Edsall, a journalism professor at Columbia University, observes that Republican strategists are trying to unify white voters by creating an “us vs. them” racial conflict. 

“While the subject of race and of the overwhelmingly white Republican primary electorate are never explicitly discussed by Republican candidates, the issue is subsumed in blatant anti-immigration rhetoric,” Edsall wrote in the New York Times in November. 

And, of course, there is that black guy in the White House to blame.

  Well, see, I thought that the Republicans were the 1% who coalesced around economic self interests.
  Have we dropped that spin already?
  And who is more divisive than the class warfare warrior himself, but Barack Obama,whose class warfare warrior AG Holder claims that people don't like him because of the color of his skin,which is why whites also don't like POTUS.
  Did you ever look at the racial demographics of a Democrat convention? Pretty rich and white. 
  Not to mention the overwhelmingly white Occupy crowd.
  As far as "that black guy in the White House."
  He is to blame. The buck stops there. He's at fault. He's the one blowing money and redistributing wealth, regulating businesses and preventing jobs from being created.
  The problem with all this finger pointing at whites is that, if we are to be fair, "colorblind," or at least ignore race, then we have to criticize along with praise. 
  But wait.
  If you're "colorblind," you're also a racist, because you're supposed to make allowances for people's, um, race.

However, colorblindness alone is not sufficient to heal racial wounds on a national or personal level. It is only a half-measure that in the end operates as a form of racism.

  So I guess we're supposed to take into account someone's race when evaluating whether we like them or not.
  Or something.
  And how does Courtland Malloy explain the Tea Party attraction to Herman Cain's candidacy? 
  That, too, was racist.
  WaPo:

Too bad, then, that behind this alluring black face lurks a GOP that is white and angry and whose ill will toward blacks remains too rabid to ignore. While most of our eyes were on Cain’s strong showing in recent Republican straw polls, for instance, GOP operatives were working overtime devising ways to disenfranchise poor and minority voters. 

Gerrymandering voting districts, attempting to rig the electoral college, requiring voters to show “official” photo IDs that can cost as much as $100: There seems to be no end to the the political treachery that Republicans will employ in their attempt to defeat President Obama’s bid for reelection. 

  The truth is that GOP operatives have been behind the scenes trying to ruin things for everybody but Romney. 
  And the whole voter ID thing is a cover for Courtland Malloy's own racism and everybody knows it. 
  Who are the racists? Who are always seeing life through racist glasses? Who wants exceptions for race rather than objectivity and standards of equality? Isn't the POTUS, well, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? How'd he get there if most whites are racist?
  Hey, y'all better watch playing the race card this early in the game.
  You might wear it out.
UPDATE: Jon Stewart