Obamanation's raggedy old race card is at least 60 years old....

.... and it is one of the most successful 'pick-up' lines of all time. Before I explain why Pilgrims, let's make sure we are all talkin' about the same race card.

"WASHINGTON (AP) - John McCain accused Barack Obama of playing politics with race on Thursday, raising the explosive issue after the first black candidate with a serious chance of winning the White House claimed Republicans will try to scare voters by saying he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
Until now, the subject of race has been almost taboo in the campaign, at least in public, with both sides fearing its destructive force.

"I'm disappointed that Senator Obama would say the things he's saying," McCain told reporters in Racine, Wis. The Arizona senator said he agreed with campaign manager Rick Davis' statement earlier that "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong." The aide was suggesting McCain had been wrongfully accused.
In turn, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said, "We weren't suggesting in any way he's using race as an issue" but that McCain "is using the same, old low-road politics that voters are very unhappy about to distract voters from the real issues in this campaign."
A day earlier and in response to a hard-hitting McCain commercial, Obama argued that President Bush and McCain have little to offer voters so Republicans will resort to a strategy of fear to keep the White House.

"What they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "You know, he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
He didn't explain

Now that we are all on the same page Pardners, let me take you back 60 years to the late '40's and the '50's. To the USO dance halls, bars, to the British and German dance halls and bars.

While us poor ole' white GI's had to rely on our smiles and try to charm the young ladies into dancing with us by using some of the tiredest old pick up lines of our fathers -- the black GI's, using a new gambit, hit upon the master pick-up line of all time: "Are you prejudiced?" or "Are you too prejudiced to dance with a black man?.

The girl being hit on became immediately defensive and guilty -- how could she refuse? If she said no, then how could she refuse to dance? If she claimed to be prejudice free but refused to dance, her actions spoke louder than her words. Once that first dance was over, the same lines would keep her for a second dance - a drink- or whatever. By that time, the die was cast, the hook set, and the evening's activities underway.

Fast forward fifty years -- I am leaving my hotel in Waco Texas heading for my car. A black panhandler started across the parking lot toward me..... his first words weren't "Hey mister, can you spare a buck for a down and out guy?" His first words were; "Hey Mister - Are you prejudiced?" I had an instant flashback to those English dance halls and USO clubs = looked him in the eye and said; "Yup, I sure am pardner. I don't like cats, little kids and panhandlers!" and kept on walking. When I got to my car, I looked back and he was still standin' there trying to figure out where his opening gambit had failed. (that's a nice way of saying 'his mouth hanging open scratching his head'.

It would appear that Obamanation is using that same old opening 'pick-up' line on the American public in general and the voters in particular: It worked on the Democrat primary voters allowing him to whip the more experienced white candidates in the race just by whipping out that card and that pick-up line: "Look at me - I am black - I don't look like my opponent - or past presidents, are you too prejudiced to dance with me?"

Between white guilt, whatever that is, and general discomfort -- folks start to dance without even looking closely at what his experience is, what his positions are, what his plans are. Soon the last dance is coming up with the November elections and it's gonna be commitment time -- are you gonna leave the dance with this smooth dude about whom you know nothing or stick with the ones that brung ya?

I reckon it's time folks ought to start looking behind the curtain to see who is really pulling the strings on this lad - and look behind his smiling, self-deprecating facade - and see what's really on his mind......and past that sixty year-old pick-up line!!