"Let's be a colored-blind society," Joe Scarborough, moderator of MSNBC's Morning Joe said early today. "I don't want to hear a lot of people whining when Michelle Obama gets attacked, 'this is because of race, this is because of race.'"
The congressman turned commentator went on to say, "Everybody, including Cindy McCain, will be open for attack...what I think is bigotry is when you say someone can't be attacked because they're black. Cindy McCain will be attacked this fall and no one will say it's because she's white."
This may be the most honest American dialogue on race that I've heard yet.
We all remember the speech that Senator Barack Obama gave in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, earlier this primary season. We remember it because the media and political pundits gobbled it up - and I would submit Chris Matthews may have recorded it to DVD and keeps it under his bed next to his lotion and "special" sock. What did we learn from it though? Something about how a politician can't disown a racist grandmother and shouldn't be friends with someone who yells "God damn America!"
But what does all of this mean for Michelle Obama? Is she fair game? Will the republicans be using 527 ads targeting the democratic nominee?
Furthermore, why haven't we heard more about Barack's other half? Oh - you haven't heard? He's half white, too.
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