Obama "his own vision"

Good old David Axelrod, Rahm and Obama's man behind the scenes. NY Times interview, "Obama's Narrator". Hat tip Illinois Review. This is the message:

With Obama’s candidacy, Axelrod is placing a gaudy bet: that the symbolic significance of race has now begun to flip. An underlying message of the campaign is that African-American candidates can symbolically represent the future. I asked him if he thought that Obama’s race would be a detriment. “I don’t think of it as a detriment,” Axelrod said. “I know that there are people who wouldn’t vote for a black candidate, but I don’t know if they would vote for a Democratic candidate anyway. But I think that in a sense Barack is the personification of his own message for this country, that we get past the things that divide us and focus on the things that unite us. He is his own vision.”

(Hmm, what if we substituted the words white for black, and Republican for Democratic? Imagine if a Republican had said something like that the kind of an outcry that would ensue from the NY Times and their ilk.) So Republicans are racists, and Obama is "his own vision". We have it straight from the old Dem war horse's mouth. (And we learn Axelrod is an import from New York.) At least Gov. Bill Richardson has the grace not to play the race card. And nothing illustrates more how stuck on himself Obama is.

Quite the "uniting" and myopic message.

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