Rossana, I respect your opinion but I believe you have things twisted a bit. It was Bill Clinton who blatantly brought up the race issue in South Carolina when he first responded to Obama winning South Carolina, and compared him to Jesse Jackson. Then, a Clinton surrogate "mistakenly" called him Barack Hussein Osama. Then, Geraldine Ferraro injected her remarks about how if Obama were white he would not be a viable candidate, as if being black gives anyone a tremendous advantage in politics or anyplace else. Then, the media and political opposition began stirring the pot of controversy more with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright sound bites. Even Hillary took her turn at stirring the controversial soup when she injected her opinions about Rev. Wright during the ABC debate in Pennsylvania.

And as far as mainstream media goes, besides being owned by BIG business and swayed by special interests, they have a lot to lose if Obama is elected. They fear that Obama, and the many more democratic congressional seats he will bring with him in the general election, will begin to call for government regulation of the media, which is how it was before Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush era. If this happens, bigots like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh will have to tone down their hate speeches and ignorant rhetoric.

And, as far as your comments that "the blacks are the ones that are being racist and inconsiderate with the nation," of all the African-Americans I know, speak with, or have had the opportunity to hear or read their opinions, 90 percent or more have taken the high road on this. In fact, I was approached this week by an African-American who, after talking to me at the local V.A. hospital for about 5 minutes about various other issues, leaned towards me and spoke in a very low voice, "What's your impression of the folks running in this election?" After I told him that I didn't like how McCain and Clinton were using the same fear-mongering attacks to scare people and continue down the same road as Bush, he looked at me and said, "I think you answered my question." Like so many African-Americans here in the South, he probably was a Clinton supporter before they started stirring up the racial pot the past several months. And while I'm on this issue, think about it . . . African-Americans, are being continually referred to by the color of their skin (black) by the media and most of white America, and not by their heritage. Why is that? Don't you find it offensive when people refer to Hispanics as "brown people?"

And, like you, Rossana, I hope we can unite as a party after the primaries and vote someone into office who is not a Bush clone or a media puppet. We need to give this country back to the people. I believe we can. But if we don't do it while the doors of opportunity are opened for us, it will be much more difficult to do 4 or 8 more years down the road.