It seems to be common wisdom around here the Barack Obama "injected" race into the campaign (because black people have it easy or something).  Now as a black man I find that and most of the clueless comments about race and racism here quite offense. (hint: MLK was far more complex than the "I have a dream speech" - he actually picked on white folks!) So I wanted to go back. Way back. To take a look at how Obama was treated before the elections even started.

Let me digress for a second, this past week we got to see a wonderful debate on the issues hosted by Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. These are real men of the people. Charles is worried about your capital gains tax and George is just worried about all of those issues you  really care about. In fact, he quickly brought up the #1 issue in  America (the economy) about 50 minutes after the debate started.

He's awesome.