I am tired of being called a racist because I question Obama's patriotism. This is not a race issue, despite the efforts of Obama to make it so, this is an issue of patriotism. It is justified try to understand how a Presidential nominee feels about the country he will represent to the world. Can we not question how a President will talk to enemies if he starts the process from the viewpoint that America is the cause of so much that is wrong with the world? The media and Obama is making this about race and they are missing the point. We are going to have a black Presidential Nominee that has won in white dominated states. We are past the race issue. What will cause people not to vote for Obama is not his skin color but rather his views about America. The real issue is this: How does Obama feel about this country? How do his words conflict with his actions? Who does he choose to befriend and why? How much will he stand up for us in the face of the world and terrorist if he won't do it with his own pastor?

These questions would be valid if the pastor wasn't a pastor but rather a close friend or if he was white. Race is not the issue, and the media is ignoring the real issue by talking only about race. In the meantime the media is causing the very strife that we need to move beyond. We can only move past the race issues by focusing on the words of the pastor and not his skin color.