Oh, where to start? 1) Jesus WAS a liberal, at least by the standards of Jewish orthodoxy. And, in fact, the most conservative Christians are still liberal by Jewish standards. 2) I don\'t see Obama playing the race card. Have you HEARRD his race speech? I think Clinton plays the gender card much worse, personally. 3) Yes, there really IS racism still alive in America today. Look at the fact that 1/3 young black males is in some form of corrections (Probation, prison, or parole). You almost HAVE to choose... Are we still experiencing leftover effects and attitudes from a racist time, or instead will you simply say that blacks are more prone to violence and committing crimes? Personally, I see double standards in the system. Like up until just a couple of months ago, cocaine and crack were treated as different drugs, and crack got twice the sentence. So white people, who tend to favor cocaine, had time to do their bid, get out, and get rearrested, while the same black guy (blacks are more likely to favor rock over powder), is still in jail for his original offense. Or when I get pulled over it\'s \"license and registration\" and I sit in the car, likely with a big spotlight shined into my rearview, so he can see what I\'m doing the whole time, while he runs my name through the system. So why do I see 2 young black men get pulled over, (for running a stoplight- I saw them run it) and they have to be put in handcuffs, and sat on the curb, while the cop runs THEIR names? Just because you\'re not racist doesn\'t mean racism doesn\'t exist. We shouldn\'t reverse the historical discimination, the way things like \"hate crime laws\" do, but neither do we need to pretend it\'s some distant time in our past, when it\'s not. That\'s NOT going to make it go away, and Obama seems to understand that.