Newsweek’s Anna Quindlen decided to throw caution to the wind and show once and for all that she’s in the tank for Barack Obama. In this piece she weaves in and out creating a tapestry of Obama that is throat gagging over the top obvious.
She begins:

It can be tough being black in America. But the tough stuff builds character. Maybe that’s why Barack Obama got this far this fast.

Ms. Quindlen then offers her own convoluted reasoning of what the supposed attack by McCain’s camp really meant.

Much of America’s political conversation is couched in code.

Using the term “race card” as a pejorative is almost always meant to promulgate the big lie that takes hold everywhere from the workplace to the classroom: that black men and women commonly use race as a bludgeon and an excuse, and that they will always blame failures or disagreements on racism.

After setting the stage she goes on to compare, in an not so off handed way, the Senators military service to Barack’s life story and the many challenges Obama had to face.

Much has been made by Senator McCain’s supporters of his history as a survivor of a Viet Cong prison camp, of the broken bones and psychological onslaughts that he withstood for five long years. They argue that such an experience builds character. They should also take note of the challenges faced by a black man in America, challenges that have built Senator Obama’s character. These may be harder to quantify than imprisonment and torture, but they are onerous in a different and inescapable way.

The McCain forces have accused the Democratic candidate of injecting race into the campaign. That’s silly. The man is black. His candidacy is indivisible from that fact, given the history and pathology of this country.

The suggestion of something untoward was pandering to stereotypes and fear. Senator McCain was playing the Caucasian card.

Did she actually say that Obama is incapable of playing the race card because he is ‘black?’

I point you to the Newsweek Article. you decide.

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