If you haven't already figured it out, any criticism of Barack Obama that has even the slightest avenue of racial attack will be seized upon by the "progressive" media. That's a guarantee.
Case in point: Obama's recent comments about rural Pennsylvanians "clinging" to religion, guns, etc. led many to refer to him as an "elitist." Uh oh:
[W]hen his opponents branded him an elitist and an outsider, his race made it easier to drive a wedge between him and the white, rural voters he has courted. As an African American, he was supposedly looking down from a place he didn’t belong and looking in from a distance he could not cross.This could not happen as dramatically were it not for embedded racial attitudes. “Elitist” is another word for “arrogant,” which is another word for “uppity,” that old calumny applied to blacks who stood up for themselves…
Furthermore, casting Obama as “out of touch” plays harmoniously with the traditional notion of blacks as “others” at the edge of the mainstream, separate from the whole.
If Jeremiah Wright is any indication of Obama's true beliefs, they are at the edge of the mainstream, unfortunately.
But that aside, let's just call this asininity for what it is: Crap. Even liberal Democrats are getting fed up with this silliness (see: Geraldine Ferraro). The liberal anointed in the MSM will have their moment -- helping the first African-American to become president -- and they'll deem anything and everything "racist" to help make their moment a reality!
(I wonder if Pvt. Trip was "racist" for thinking Cpl. Thomas Searles was "elitist.")