you don't think it'll work?? you overestimate our country. there's an abundance of ignorance and some of us LOVE is when the "bad guy" isn't chistian and has brown skin and speaks a different language.
Frankly, no, I don't. There's a lot of ignorance everywhere. Racism doesn't always have to do with 'brown skin' anyway, not that black skin or yellow-hued Chinese skin should be any different. Just that brown skin, specifically includes so many different kinds of groups--from Puerto Rican to Hindu to American Indian (which is not all that red-looking in my experience, most of theirs looks like a nice suntan too) to Polynesians--and there is not necessarily racism practised. You really don't have to look far back to find an era when Arabs were not discriminated against except when it comes to the Palestine/Israel problem.
So, it has to be ARAB HATRED that would constitute racism comparable to what is historically mostly against blacks. But I don't see that most people, except Jews, have that much anger against Arabs in general. Until Al Qaeda and the Egyptian fanatics got started in the late 80s (and that's where Zawahiri comes from, that bunch in Egypt), and the attacks started, with the 1993 WTC attack, and growing in the 90s with the 2 attacks in Saudi Arabia by Al Qaeda (even though they're trained Saudis), the USS Cole, and before that the African embassies, these were all al-Qaeda. After 9/11, there were the London Underground bombings, the Mardrid, the Jordan, the Bali....Westerners have every reason to be suspicious, because all these sorts of terrorist attacks (including those nipped in the bud like last summer) are Muslim extremists. That's just a fact, and doesn't have anything to do with racism. It may be bigotry toward a religion. In my case, I fully admit to having prejudice against Islam in a way I have it toward no other religion, but anti-Christian sentiment (which almost all atheists in particular are, even though they will, as frequently when they are Marxists, champion Islam even though Marx shunned all religion) is fashionable.
The whole crap of Islamic jihad is something Obama is just as much against as I am, so you might as well realize that Obama's political interests are Western, they are pro-Israeli and they are not pro-Muslim. It isn't really worth thinking about right now, but I think that with Rev. Wright there was something that Obama's opponents knew was controversial, and Wright himself certainly thought so too--but I think only a small group of rednecks will start pulling the Obama-as-Muslim card unless some dirt from the past can be pulled up. But they'll ALL do that--and people that don't think Obama will do it given half a chance are all wet. People need to learn that all politicians are more alike than they are different--it's almost always a matter of choosing the least bad.
Of course, we Westerners are 'bad' too, but we have to realize that it's our badness. Hatred of Islam is not what started this shit, it is, rather the islamic perception that only the Prophet knows what can be good, the belief in martyrdom (I think I'll bump that article about the Belgian woman working on the internet for Al Qaida), the constant nonsense about 'the great Satan' and 'the infidels'. When taken to extremes, this is a religion currently more dangerous than any of the others (which, I suppose, are more mature and less fanatical by now, etc.)