I'll have to find out who Britt Hume is one of these days.
And, who does NOT play the race card?
Nixon's euphemism was the "Southern Strategy"
Reagan wasn't as subtle with "Welfare Queens" and "If you've seen one ghetto, you've seen them all."
Mitt called them "the 47%"

Look at the makeup of the Republican and Democratic parties before and after the passage of the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960's.
Before the passage of that legislation, the "solid democratic south" was a code word for Jim Crow southern whites. Those black people who voted were Lincoln republicans.
That single piece of legislation shifted the political and social landscape more profoundly than any single government act since the Civil War.

Of course race is a huge factor!

"Amnesty" has replaced "Bussing" or "Affirmative Action" in the current codebook, but the basic issue is the same.
You can mow my lawn buddy, but you and your family can't vote or my golf buddy might be defeated.

Obama's two resounding victories are scarier to the dwindling white majority than anything he'll ever do while in office.
Of course he plays the race card.
It's been staring him in the face since the day he was born.
Did he get preferential treatment in college?
Maybe so.
Did all the Bushes who were magically admitted to Yale get preferential treatment?
No maybe about it. W was a low C student who never would have made it on his own.

>In college and shortly after, Obama received certain benefits only possible to students not born in the U.S. (Before anyone gets on me for being a "birther", I believe he was born in the U.S., but truthfully don't care. But what is relevant is that he used deception to get certain benefits)
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>See a pattern here? Using something other than his capabilities. In a truly color-blind society, he'd have far more difficulty advancing on his merits.