Would a white candidate be in Barack Obama’s position, poised to win the Democrat nomination, if he or she were friendly with a former white supremacist that blew up black churches in the 60’s? Would a white candidate still have a political career if it were found that he or she attended a “white power” church for twenty years? Would a white candidate be given the benefit of doubt if he or she said, “it’s not surprising that black people turn to crime and drugs because they are bitter.” Barack Obama may win the Presidency because he is the beneficiary of political affirmative action: he is held to an abysmally low standard because he’s black.

Political affirmative action exists when a black candidate is allowed to win a nomination without counting the votes of all 50 states. He is also the beneficiary of a delegate system that allows him to win a state without winning the popular vote. Political affirmative action exists when a black candidate doesn’t have any experience, and is touted as having more foreign policy experience than all of the other candidates because he spent time in Singapore and Pakistan, and studied foreign affairs while attending Columbia University. Political affirmative action exists when a black candidate is selected as a party’s nominee based on super delegates instead of the voters. Especially when the super delegates select him, not based on electability or qualifications, but because they fear losing the black vote.

If Obama had any self respect he’d request that he be judged based on the same standards as anyone else running for president. He should be offended that the bar has been lowered so low that he need only crawl over it to achieve victory. But Obama is a product of a society that embraces affirmative action. He expects the media and the American people to overlook any negative aspect of his campaign and instead focus on his soaring empty rhetoric. He continually says that fair criticism of him is divisive and doesn’t help what he’s trying to do for this nation. His campaign has played the race card time and time again to destroy any detractors.

Obama is definitely practicing a different type of politics: the politics of affirmative action, where black candidates are given powerful positions without earning them.