Every Critic a Racist

http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/08/every-critic-a-racist.html

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama's supporters promised
that his election would allow America to "transcend race." Among the
headlines:

The Boston Globe: "Obama shows an ability to transcend race"

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Obama's success suggests we can
transcend race"

But of course that hasn't happened. Jonah Goldberg writes:

It was Obama's supporters who hinted, teased, promised, and prophesied
that Obama would help America "transcend race." But now, it is they
who shrink from their own promised land…

From Day 1, Obama's supporters have tirelessly cultivated the idea
that anything inconvenient for the first black president just might be
terribly, terribly racist.

Goldberg has plenty of examples:

For instance, actress Janeane Garofalo summed up the tea parties
thusly: "This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is
racism straight up."

In an ABC News story about how racist white militias are somehow
connected to town-hall protests, Mark Potok of the dismayingly
left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center insists Obama has "triggered
fears among fairly large numbers of white people in this country that
they are somehow losing their country."

Come on. Every president eventually is criticized by the media – even
one as "transcendent" as Obama. The President's supporters should
engage his critics with facts, not charges of racism.