Obama Throws Carter, NBC, Dowd, and Pretty Much the Entire Left Wing Noise Machine Under the Bus

It was political suicide to ascribe the fears and rational concerns of Americans to racism. Opposition to Obamacare has been based om data from the CBO and news reports from places such as Massachusetts and Tennessee. Somehow reporting facts and matching it with street demonstrations now constitutes racism! Anyway the more they screamed racist the less people listened and the deeper the hole democrats and their media allies were digging for themselves. Anyway it appears Obama has finally telegraphed to his allies, tone it down comrades.

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday that he did not believe his race was the cause of fierce criticism aimed at his administration in the contentious national debate over health care, but rather that the cause was a sense of suspicion and distrust many Americans have in their government.

“Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are,” Mr. Obama told CNN. “That’s not the overriding issue here.”

In five separate television interviews at the White House, Mr. Obama said he did not agree with former President Jimmy Carter’s assertion that racism was fueling the opposition to his administration. He described himself as just the latest in a line of presidents whose motives had been questioned because they were trying to enact major change.

Mr. Obama will appear on five Sunday talk shows — an unprecedented step for a president — to promote his health care plan. The television networks broadcast brief parts of their interviews on Friday evening, all of which focused on a question the White House has sought to avoid all week: Has race played a role in the debate?

Mr. Obama, the nation’s first black president, said “race is such a volatile issue in this society” that he conceded it had become difficult for people to tell whether it was simply a backdrop of the current political discussion or “a predominant factor.”

Yeah right, nice attempt to cover for your allies. For the record there are people who did not like Obama over race just as there were people didn't like Bush because of his religion convictions. Prejudice has no political label, no matter how enlightened the left thinks it is.