Being a Monday morning quarterback is easy, but CBS 60 Minutes could have messed it up. In a story about the inner circles of the Obama campaign, Steve Kroft summarized the reasons for Obama’s campaign as “… by largely ignoring that their candidate happed to be a black man.” Steve knows that this is only half true. The Obama campaign never failed for a second to spread the message that Obama is black. That was how Obama got 95 percent of the black votes. Not all blacks in this country are democrats. What Obama campaign really did was putting on a double face -- playing the race cards with black voters while telling the non-blacks that race is not an issue. Alas, McCain played it straight. He never played the race card even when Obama fell to a weak spot as the Jeremiah Wright video started to spread on the internet. Obama’s inner circle admitted in the 60 minutes interview that they were caught off guard. McCain just let Obama get away by making one public speech in which he criticized and defended Jeremiah at the same time. Of course, the deciding battle was the collapse of the Wall Street. When a financial crisis began to threaten the Main Street economy, many votes started to blame the Republican Party. McCain lost much of his support base.
