Courtesy of WaPo's Eugene Robinson.

Not more substantive mind you, just kinder and gentler.

Let's go through this one as well.

Of course it's possible to reject Obama's policies and philosophy without being racist. But there's a particularly nasty edge to the most vitriolic attacks -- a rejection not of Obama's programs but of his legitimacy as president. This denial of legitimacy is more pernicious than the abuse heaped upon George W. Bush by his critics (including me), and I can't find any explanation for it other than race.

Well thanks for the vote of confidence there Gene, 'preciate it.

Mr. Robinson is literally out of his mind. I don't know how he's defining "pernicious", but the dictionary says it means "highly injurious or destructive". If the Birthers are "crazy" and "nitwits", as we'll see in the next paragraph, how can their accusations be "highly injurious or destructive"? To whom, exactly? If they're crazy nitwits, then ignore them. Nothing substantive will come of it. Again, I'm not a Birther. I believe Obama was born here. But to equate the birther argument with the attacks on W for eight years is literally insane. I don't have to remind everybody of what those attacks looked and sounded like, but a three-second Google search will make it abundantly clear that Mr. Robinson was either asleep from 2001-2008 or didn't bother to do his homework.

It seems to me that if Mr. Robinson can make this absurd claim, there has to be something beneath his argument other than the facts. And for the life of me I can't think of anything either besides the fact that Mr. Robinson is black and thinks that the Birthers are racist. If anyone has a better explanation, I'd love to hear it.

I'm not talking about the majority of the citizens who went to town hall meetings to criticize Obama's plans for health-care reform or the majority of the "tea bag" demonstrators who complain that Obama is ushering in an era of big government. Those are, of course, legitimate points of view. Protest is part of our system. It's as American as apple pie.

I'm talking about the crazy "birthers." I'm talking about the nitwits who arrive at protest rallies bearing racially offensive caricatures -- Obama as a witch doctor, for example. I'm talking about the idiots who toss around words like "socialism" to make Obama seem alien and even dangerous -- who deny the fact that he, too, is as American as apple pie.

Leaving the Birther argument aside for the moment, in the same breath Mr. Robinson says that he's not talking about the town hall protests that complain about the "legitimate" fear of "ushering in an era of big government" but then he lambastes the "idiots who toss around words like 'socialism' to make Obama seem alien and even dangerous."

What?

I sure as hell don't toss around the word Socialism to make Obama seem alien or dangerous. I toss around the word Socialism because that's what Obama wants for this Country. Through his actions and his words Obama has given me no reason to believe that he supports Capitalism or individual Liberty.

It's not about Obama so much as it is about Socialism. The word and the political concept mean something, to paraphrase one of Obama's own, correct, statements. Every action Obama has taken since he was elected is textbook Socialism 101. If Mr. Robinson refuses to see that, that's his problem. But I can tell you right now that I'm not an idiot. If Mr. Robinson wants to go toe-to-toe with me in a debate on what Socialism is and how Obama lines up, bring it.

"Socialism", as a subset of the broader "Collectivist" ideology, is "alien and dangerous". How many people have to die because of it before liberals wake up and acknowledge that it does not, will not and can not work? How many?

Obama is simply a purveyor of the socialist mindset. It's not him that's evil, it's the ideology. He's just stupid. Or he's confused, blind, incapable of learning from history or any one of a thousand other mental or personality flaws that cause folks to believe that a civil society based on the tenets of collectivism can ever work. The thing that separates Obama from your average moron on any given college campus is that he's the President of the United States of America. He swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

(Now, if anyone would like to claim that the Constitution of the United States as originally understood and written in any way provides for the institution of any form of economic or social collectivism, that's a debate I love having because I always win. But it's a debate I for one am willing to have.)

Obama may very well be as "American as apple pie". But to the extent he believes his duties as Commander-in-Chief include "remaking" America's economic system and social contract to one that is "alien" to that of our founding, then he's also as "dumb as a box of rocks" and that makes him "dangerous".

I look forward to the day when we can look past race. But before we can do so, we need to look at race and see it clearly. Jimmy Carter did us a favor.

I'm not sure I believe this. Forgive me but Mr. Robinson has given me no reason to think that he wants anything but to look for hidden racial agendas behind otherwise legitimate philosphical and political disagreements.

And to thank a rabid anti-Semite who explicitly called over half of the American People, including countless thousands of black people, "racists", doesn't help his King-esque proclamation all that much. If you're looking forward to the day when we look past race Mr. Robinson, I suggest you find a more credible source for race relations than the racist, anti-Semite former peanut farmer from the deep south.

I, on the other hand, actually do look forward to that day. I can tell you this though: it will never come so long as people like Mr. Robinson and Jimmy Carter continue to desperately search for racial motivations that aren't there in a thinly veiled attempt to both defeat the Conservative arguments they otherwise can't and smear huge swaths of this Country in the process.

Time to hit the books fellas.

I promise I'll be here when you get back.

Russ