The Democratic party has been stung by charges of using the race card during this years presidential nomination battle.  Now we have a new explanation that Barack Obama’s inability to win votes in more rural areas is not racism but antipathy towards affirmative action.  From ABC News reports.

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb (D), who has not made a 2008 endorsement, blamed antipathy towards affirmative action — and not racism — on Wednesday for Barack Obama’s lack of support among the Scots-Irish in places like Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

“We shouldn’t be surprised at the way they are voting right now,” said Webb in an interview with MSNBC. “This is the result of how affirmative action, which was basically a justifiable concept when it applied to African-Americans, expanded to every single ethnic group in America that was not white. And these were the people who had not received benefits and were not getting anything out of it.”

Watch the interview here.

Thank you Sen. Webb for that remarkable insight.  It’s amazing what you can learn after a little over a year in office. I still say that if walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck and no matter what you try to call it there is no doubt that race is playing a major role in areas where Obama is doing poorly.

Read the rest of the report.

 

 

 

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