The Blackest President

This is a funny story that I'm hoping isn't of consequence, because it would be quite disturbing if it was.

Call me crazy, but it certainly appears to me that Sen. Obama's skin tone is significantly darker in the Clinton campaign commercial. Watch it again and see if you agree.

Now, as most of us know, one of the ways in which to demonize a person of color is to make them appear darker than they are. By this twisted logic, somehow being more black makes you more threatening.

Of course it's wise to be skeptical of anything read at the Daily Kos, but I looked at actual debate video side-by-side to the Clinton ad, and the image of Obama is significantly darker.

The race-baiters will be quick to say that she's trying to somehow make him look "blacker" so he appears more threatening. However, I think it is a tactic to make him not looker "blacker" in the sense of pigment, but rather to convey a more ominous message related to his image.

The only real conclusion anyone can make of this is once a Clinton, always a Clinton. Maybe the wife of "the first black president" wants him to be the only black president.