More bullshit abuse of the race card.
Via RCP:
“Look, I’m not one who kind of just reflexively cries racism,” New York Magazine columnist John Heilemann said on “Morning Joe” today before going on a rant about how there’s a “racial element” in opposition to President Obama.
“I think it’s true. There is some — this thing has gone on for four years. This notion of, you know, as you said there was some on the show the other day. Trying to basically insinuate that the Muslim faith still claims Barack Obama because he was born in a Muslim household and that Barack Obama’s polices are — he’s given a free pass to Muslim extremists around the world whose leading this slaughter of Christians. He’s talking about Sharia law. There is a racial — for some number of the president’s enemies who talk about it in this way. Who cast him as a — in the way that we’re talking about there is some undertone of persistent racial animosity that fuels that,” Heilemann said.
Later in the segment former Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN) says “it shouldn’t be a surprise there’s some element of race” in opposition to Obama. However, Ford also said”at the end of the day, if he were white, Barack Obama, and was traveling down the path that Republicans believe he’s traveling down, they’d be criticizing him” too.