When he got to the Q&A session, he said that he would be careful with his answers

Yeah, sounds like he's careful to speak fluent dog-whistle. The "Christian Identity movement" are white supremacists. Maybe someone should ask him about that.

This is implicitly racist, and I mean with a capital R.

Allow me to briefly explain:

Racism, as an ideology that arose in the past several hundred years, has always a conflation of culture and biology. In fact, that is what makes it racism. Dividing people into groups was never the project. Even Lineus (sp?) threw in behavioral characteristics in his "taxonomoy" of the "races". Racism purported to show culture and behavior were a result of biology, of blood, and thus permanent. That difference in cultures were due to underlying, fundamental, and indelible differences in our physical nature. For instance, "Caucasoids" were industrious by nature, and "Mongloids" had choleric blood and were such and such by nature. Suffice it to say that the portryals were always favorable to whites and disparaging of non-whites.

The excuse of the modern racist that they are talking about "culture" not race doesn't fly, since "race" has always been a confusion of the two.

Obama is being treated as less "American" or less "Christian" than a white would be, based solely on his appearance.

Similarly, that people like Pat Buchanan don't *really* believe that non-white people can really become fully "American", even after generations in this country, just shows how they have a hidden theory of biology. That somehow babies are literally born with a certain civic tendency, a work ethic, etc. all based on their skin color.

The point is that "culture" here is being used to mean race. The modern racist talks mostly about defending culture and Kulturkampf. But little has changed, since that is what racism has always been about.

Of course this neither surprises me nor discourages me from studies in Americanism. It is amazing that today, instead of talking about all the things the President said about health-care last night (about 95% of what he talked about) the MSM seems transfixed with the last question asked to him by Mrs Sweet from one of the Chicago newspapers. So here we have once again another GOP person expressing views that at a minimum seem to encourage civil actions with lines like these, "When I joined the military I took an oath to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic," Reynolds said. "I never thought it would be domestic, but in today's world I do believe we have enemies here. It's time for people to stand up. It's time for us to speak out."

Just like everyone this gentleman has the right to express his opinions but as someone who seeks to be a leader in his community many one would think that encompassing his skills would be arbitrating difficult issues within the community. I mean who knows, maybe the Catholics in Arkansas have different issues than the Baptist and in cases such as these he would be asked to be a leader and arbitrate an agreed upon comprise by both parties. This guy does not act as if he wants to lead a community made up of different ideas and concerns about issues facing the community he seems concerned with our President and pushing an issue on the community as a whole. That is Fascism or Authoritarianism.

Reynolds forgot to mention wearing the white sheets with the pointy hats.