Has anyone besides Obama said his race is a campaign issue?

The simple answer to your question is no, but if it were only that simple. If he doesn't stop bringing up race he's going to cease being seen as the Democratic candidate and begin being seen as the "black" candidate, and that's a terrible road for him to go down. If he's going to be above it, then he needs to stop giving the idea credence by talking about it so much. I'm hearing more and more Democrats who were just starting to warm up to him backing up the bus again because he can't seem to shut up about it. Someone in his campaign should be smart enough, hell, HE should be smart enough, to know in order to stay above it he can't fricking keep talking about it. How can he not understand that keeping the subject alive does nothing but hurt him. Let those who think race is a legitimate factor sound like fools while he and the rest of us go about our business. What is so hard about that? What he's now creating is a whole new issue where people are saying HE'S playing the race card, HE'S trying to paint those who don't vote for him as racists, HE'S the one who seems to be race obsessed. I don't think any of that is true, but he's not helping the situation, he's making it worse. Not very smart on his part, this could really hurt him because perception is everything in politics.

No i have'nt but anything goes in politics they will all tell you lies and do what they want when they are elected.

Pepole cant stand more of the Bush tactics nor can they afford it thats why come November the Democrats will rule.

if you dont like the way these canadates operate you can allways leave the country.

Obama 08

A button sold to raise money for the Republicans had written on it that if Obama is elected will it still be the white house. Another sold T-shirts of Obama as a monkey.

Obama's campaign seems to be determined to keep his race at the forefront and I'm not certain what their motive is. They appear to think they can demonize the opposition by planting the idea that they are the racists when, in actuality, it is the Obama campaign. You know the old adage, if you repeat a lie often enough, people will eventually believe it.

OMG.

Every other word from little obama is race, black, race, change, black, racist, hope, African, race, change, black racist, hope.

Truly, RACE is the entire substance of the Obama campaign.

There is NOTHING else!?

Empty suit.

Umm...no one else's race is an issue. John McCain is caucasian and every president has been a caucasian male...so where is the issue. If a Latino, Asian, Native American, etc were running, then race would certainly be an issue for that candiate.

Had Sen. Clinton won, then her gender would be an issue. If a man in a wheelchair had won then his disability would be an issue. Race is something different in this race and it is a heated issue in America.

And, I've frequently heard him speak of his caucasian mother and grandparents and the significant role they played in making him the man he is today. What have you been listening to and reading. He speaks of them often!

Bill Clinton did in North Carolina. I have not heard any Repbulicans mention this. However, Bill Cunningham used his middle name which was a big no no.

I don't care about his physical appearance. it is what is inside his heart that matters to this country. He began the issue of skin color and prejudice himself with his own mouth when he entered the presidential race. He called his own grandmother a racist while he himself in his own book gives vile epithets to others of skin color different than his own.

I would like to make a larger issue of his religion problems as those are endemic to this country and show his personal deepest character as well. A mans choice of religion proves who he really is as well as the people he surrounds himself with for twenty years as well as the people he now surrounds himself with in his campaign as well as all the people he throws away as used paper towels when they prove they are not enough to help him achieve his goal of the presidency of the United States of America and whatever else he has hidden.

Nope. The Clinton campaign did, but the Republicans have gone out of their way to be nice to him. The RNP recently banished a vendor for life from their convention for selling racist crap, McCain has openly pledged to not use smear attacks against Obama and kicked Bill Cunningham's a.s.s for throwing "H-Bombs" around and Mike Huckabee warned against the Republicans trying to demonize Obama for any reason.

Bottom line, Obama is race-baiting. If he had said this during the primaries when he was running against Clinton (whose campaign WAS bigoted), it might have made sense.

He's just addressing the 800 pound gorilla in the campaign.

You know the GOP will, however sly, try to make some whites fear his "exoticness" (I already heard that one used).

He would be stupid to mention it over and over, but saying it once is not a bad idea.