Who's playing racial politics in this campaign? It's Mitt Romney

    Yesterday, Joe Biden said something stupid. Now it’s hardly the first time those words have been spoken and likely won’t be the last. But this time

Biden’s words created something of a firestorm.

When talking about Mitt Romney’s support for repealing Dodd-Frank and other regulations on big banks, Biden said, "They’re going to put y’all back in

chains." This was a play off Republican charges that Democrats have shackled the private sector (an assertion that might come as a surprise to Dow watchers).

Still, it was a dumb thing to say, and considering that half of Biden’s audience was made up of African-Americans, looks ever more foolish and insensitive.

But what is so fascinating about the incident is not what Biden said, but the Republican reaction to it.  After taking a second to unclench their hands from

the pearl necklaces around their necks, Romney campaign officials quickly attacked Obama for reaching "a new low" and the candidate himself criticized the

President’s campaign of "hate." Here on the Rumble, the perennially aggrieved Derek Hunter writes that this is yet another example of "liberal racism."

But if you really want to talk about who is playing the race card this year, it’s worth briefly revisiting the latest attack ad from the Romney campaign on

welfare:
    Yesterday, Joe Biden said something stupid. Now it’s hardly the first time those words have been spoken and likely won’t be the last. But this time

Biden’s words created something of a firestorm.

When talking about Mitt Romney’s support for repealing Dodd-Frank and other regulations on big banks, Biden said, "They’re going to put y’all back in

chains." This was a play off Republican charges that Democrats have shackled the private sector (an assertion that might come as a surprise to Dow watchers).

Still, it was a dumb thing to say, and considering that half of Biden’s audience was made up of African-Americans, looks ever more foolish and insensitive.

But what is so fascinating about the incident is not what Biden said, but the Republican reaction to it.  After taking a second to unclench their hands from

the pearl necklaces around their necks, Romney campaign officials quickly attacked Obama for reaching "a new low" and the candidate himself criticized the

President’s campaign of "hate." Here on the Rumble, the perennially aggrieved Derek Hunter writes that this is yet another example of "liberal racism."

But if you really want to talk about who is playing the race card this year, it’s worth briefly revisiting the latest attack ad from the Romney campaign on

welfare: