Over 15,000 labor union members flocked to the Soldier Field in anticipation to hear from the candidates on how each and everyone of them are going to handle the plethora of problems confronting workers across the country-from healthcare to job security. They did not come from far and near to hear whether it is right or wrong to invite Bonds to the White House.

Yet, Mr. Olbermann seized the moment to remind us that bigotry and racial divide often employed by small factional powerful minority as their political atomizing tool should still be the bedrock of our future endeavor.

It may perhaps be an "irresponsible and frankly naïve" (two words trademarked for Mr. Obama) on my part to ask about the relevance or danger for which Bonds posed against labor unions and the Democratic Party for which Mr. Obama is seeking their nomination.

In a poll conducted by the same network for which Mr. Olbermann worked for, union voters considered Iraq, education, healthcare, immigration, economy and environmental issues as their burden-driven agendas. On no occasion does the controversial issue of baseball racks in the minds of any of the attendees.

Then, what was the goal here? It is simple: perpetuating the great doctrine of divine-and-rule. Pinning down Mr. Obama on whether he is going to play host to the controversial record breaking baseball player, Bonds at the White House was geared towards one strategy-creating more sentiment among African Americans against the candidacy of Mr. Obama.

Adding credence to my claim, immediately after this question was posed to Mr. Obama, the moderator laid a soft landing ground for Hillary Clinton who is in great competition with Obama on African American votes. Hillary was asked what she will do to confront with the reality of the myriad problems of Katrina and education-two issues deeply rooted in the minds of African Americans.

It was not a surprise that after this dirty trick carelessly employed by Mr. Olbermann was unleashed; the waiting public saw the smokes behind the fire, and, that was why the moderator was booed mercilessly by the union workers who came in desperation to seek a consensus solution to their problems, rather hearing a tactical message of dividing an ethnic group or race.

It is grief-stricken that we are still resurrecting or crutching the same doctored questions floated around in the past six months against the blackness of Mr. Obama. For most Americans, they thought such strategy has no breeding ground in our political discourse-not realizing that hysteria is, by its nature, contagious and political hacks such as Olbermann exist precisely to take advantage of a people's lowered level of immunity to purvey their toxic notions.

These cliques of people at the corridor of perpetuating these divisive messages are in small minority, but they do have a super megaphone to pollute the airspace with their soulless agenda.

It is pertinent not to undermine this gesture, because voters are passing through a time of critical decisions, and an already suspicious people, traumatized by a prolonged season of fear, deceit and betrayal, may succumb readily to spurious attributions to those who urge hard, as opposed to easy choices.

There is a paradox at the heart of the phenomenon of Olbermann. He is always at loggerhead with Mr. Bill O'Reilly of Fox news for pedaling the rightwing propaganda of hate. Or, perhaps, his problem with his counterpart on the other side is that he (Bill O'Reilly) should only engage in intraparty bigotry, and not extending such gesture towards the Democrats. I will leave that part of my confusion here for Mr. Olbermann to do well to explain the daylight between both of them.

Even in the light of all these, there are million of Americans who are kind-hearted, ready to turn the page on the divisive doctrine of the past decades. They truly hope for a day when all of us will jointly focus on our shared values, than expanding a new frontier of more hate and despair among us.

Count me in as one of those ready to end the political atomization of the past decades. And as for those sitting on the sideline, you may also help in this improbable journey of creating a more perfect union.

"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."-Barack Obama.