Don’t think this is simply going to go away if Obama gets into office. The calls of racism will only increase when people begin daring to question the policies of an Obama Administration. Don’t like his tax increases? How long have you been a racist? Don’t like his pandering to dictators? Why exactly do you hate black people? It doesn’t get saner from here, folks.

As Allah notes, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard this same exact argument, either. Last time, however, the race-baiting came from some columnist. Now we’re getting this bull from the Senate majority leader.

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As for his claim that there’s no connection between Raines and Obama except for skin color? Bull. We last visited this when Howard Kurtz, in a hilarious defense of Obama, was apparently telling us not to trust the reporting from his own paper. Here’s what the Washington Post had reported about Obama’s ties to Raines:

In the four years since he stepped down as Fannie Mae’s chief executive under the shadow of a $6.3 billion accounting scandal, Franklin D. Raines has been quietly constructing a new life for himself. He has shaved eight points off his golf handicap, taken a corner office in Steve Case’s D.C. conglomeration of finance, entertainment and health-care companies and more recently, taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.

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In the current crisis, their biggest backers have been Democrats such as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (Mass.). Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae.

And Team Obama had no issue with those characterizations of their relationship until Fannie and Freddie became a problem to have around your neck. The two are/were connected. The charge of racism is just another attempt to silence any criticism of The One.