Majority Says Obama Comments Racist

Uh oh. Just as we've suspected. Mr. Post-Racial Candidate is now viewed as a racist.

Would you, uhhhh, like to have those remarks back now?

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity just like them. Of those, just 22% say the ad was racist while 63% say it was not.

However, Obama’s comment that his Republican opponent will try to scare people because Obama does not look like all the other presidents on dollar bills was seen as racist by 53%. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree.

Both campaigns expressed a desire to move beyond the recent flap. On Saturday Obama backed off the racism charge and accused McCain's campaign of cynicism instead. He also rejected McCain's charge that the Democrat himself had brought race into the campaign with his dollar bill comment.

Two months after Obama clinched the Democratic Presidential Nomination, the race for the White House remains amazingly close in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

Talk about a media Barack-lash. They've had a fit over the McCain ads while giving Obama a free pass for his repeated racial remarks, and now the blowback is in full effect.

Good luck spinning your way out of this one, Messiah.