Playing the race card? How about the whole hand?

The McCain 'camp' (meaning his handlers) are pissed about Obama's mention of race in a recent speech: "The high-voltage charge came after Obama said McCain and Republicans want to scare voters by saying he doesn't look like the Presidents on dollar bills... Team McCain got riled over a riff Obama repeatedly tossed into his speeches Wednesday, saying that his opponents would try to paint him as too risky a bet for commander in chief... "There is no greater directive inside this campaign," a top McCain aide said of rules against anything approaching racism. "It is like the quickest ticket out of this building." Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs denied Obama referred to race in his remarks about GOP fearmongering. "He was referring to the fact that he didn't come into the race with the history of others," Gibbs said. "It is not about race." But Obama's team absolved McCain of race-baiting. "Barack Obama in no way believes that the McCain campaign is using race as an issue, but he does believe they're using the same old low-road politics to distract voters," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

Rico says Obama doesn't look like any of the presidents on the bills in his pocket, but that's not the point. The point is, the man's not white (in case you hadn't noticed), and all he's doing is acknowledging that. This knee-jerk anti-racism thing is all well and good, but the guy has to be allowed to mention the obvious...