The American Pundit

Good to know that Team Obama is running a clean, honorable campaign that concentrates on the real issues facing Americans. Nothing says honorable and attentative to the real issues like having surrogates out on the trail accusing your opponents of being racist.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius accused Republicans on Tuesday of injecting race into the presidential campaign, arguing that they are using “code language” to convince Midwesterners that Democrat Barack Obama is different from them.

“Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?” Sebelius asked with sarcasm. “(Republicans) are not going to go lightly into the darkness.”

Sebelius was responding to a question from the audience at the Iowa City Public Library about the tenacity of Democrats and whether they would fight for victory as hard as Republicans in the closing weeks of the election.

She did not elaborate on her comment.

As Ed Morrissey says, she didn’t elaborate because there’s no evidence of Republicans using some secret “code language”. The race card backfired when Barack Obama actually played it and it certainly won’t help Team Obama now. Maybe they could stop lecturing their opponents about how to run an honorable campaign long enough to stop smearing their opponents with claims of racism.