Is criticism of Obama racist?

Yes -- according to these well-known liberals:

On Thursday's "Countdown," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and his guest Janeane Garofalo defamed fellow citizens who attended the prior day's Tea Parties with the same vitriolic contempt.

Garofalo actually called Party-goers "a bunch of teabagging rednecks," adding "this is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up."

This lefty blogger is a bit more explicit:

I’ve been parsing the words and the racists have been very careful to cover their tracks and fury that a black man is President. But not well enough. I’m starting to become pretty convinced at this point that “socialist” is a some kind of code word for “nigger”.

So is it racist to oppose Obama's Big-Government-gone-wild agenda? Yes.

That's because the word "racism" is a snare disguised as a legitimate phrase for clarifying political discourse. In fact, the word "racism" is entirely modern, and of purebred Marxist stock. The Soviets, who were the first Marxists in power, invented it as a condemnation of those ethnic groups who stubbornly refused to surrender their traditions and submit to the enlightened rule of the communist commissars. Like many other propaganda terms, it was not so much a philosophical concept as it was a loaded phrase designed to intimidate and silence critics.

Then as now, the term "racist" is a cluster bomb that implies both backwardness and xenophobia. The first usage of the term "racist" in print appeared in Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution, in which he characterized Russian patriotism as "the messianism of backwardism" and dismissed as "Racists" those who explained conflicts in nationalistic terms:

"Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great. Mark remarked upon this theme: "In the same way the Teutonic jackasses blamed the despotism of Frederick the Second upon the French, as though backward slaves were not always in need of civilised slaves to train them." This brief comment completely finishes off not only the old philosophy of the Slavophiles, but also the latest revelations of the 'Racists.'"

Therefore, in the Marxist lexicon, loyalty to one's cultural traditions, including the way you talk, the faith you profess, and your political traditions, is a manifestation of a fear of progress, and progress, as we all know, is the inevitable movement toward globalism and universalism that Marxism promised. Love of one's own people and their traditions is not love, but hatred of others.

Which is why the very word should not be in our vocabulary. Avoid it like you would a poisoned spike pit.