What I really think

Well, you probably already know. Nonetheless, my latest letter to the editor-short and sweet:

To the Editor;

I recently read a quote from New York Governor David A. Paterson, who said; "...there are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign." "I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama black in a sense that would be a negative,".

I definitely think Paterson's on to something here. Take for example, how the McCain camp continuously accuses Obama of elitism and being out of touch with 'regular' Americans. Obama was raised by a single mother and his father was an absent alcoholic. He gained acceptance to the best educational institutes in the world, overcoming the circumstances into which he was born through hard work, perseverance and personal fortitude. You could say he's pulled himself up by his bootstraps. Isn't this what the Republican Party has been excoriating the poor for NOT doing for decades? And yet, when encountering just such a success story, they label him elitist. Elitist? Don't they really mean 'Uppity'?