Obama failed to try reform

I love it! Now, if you do not support Sen. Barack Obama, you’re a racist.

It’s clear that new talking points from the Obama camp are to stoke the racism issue. Television news commentators (CNN’s Jack Cafferty), political writers (Time’s Mi-chael Grunwald) and Obama surrogates (Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius), to name a few, are saying that the only possible reason for the polls to be so close must be the ingrained racism in many Americans.

A letter to the editor on Sept. 18 (“Obama critiques conceal racism,” The Daily Progress) posits that “aloof,” “elitist,” “inexperienced,” etc., are code for “he’s black.” But if you look back to 2004, many of the same critiques were made against John Kerry. He’s clearly not black!

Could it be instead that the American people are against the policies of the far-left senators Obama and Kerry?

Could it be that citizens are fed up with the folks running Washington (Con-gress’s approval ratings are below 20 percent).

Of the two tickets vying for the presidency, which candidates have a history of bucking the establishment? Obama has benefited politically from the infamously corrupt Chicago political machine since his days in the Illinois Senate. Has he ever distanced himself from this crowd? Has he ever tried to reform the Democratic Party in Chicago?

No, he has consistently endorsed its establishment candidates.

On the other side of the ticket, John McCain and Sarah Palin have gone after their own when they saw injustice — Palin running against GOP incumbents and blowing the whistle on corrupt Republicans; McCain on campaign-finance reform, wasteful earmark spending and supporting the overwhelmingly successful troop surge in Iraq that has us on the brink of a victory there.

Obama says he’s for change, but when has he ever led real change? The proven change-agents are McCain-Palin.

Brad Heilman
Albemarle County