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You have to wonder why he keeps doing it. Why he keeps making these clueless, inane statements. Does he think nobody is listening? Does he think no one will care? Or is it that he is a complete and utter buffoon? I'm leaning toward the latter.

His latest is a doosy. If you haven't heard about it, click here.

To summarize, Barry says that the McCain campaign will try to scare voters away from voting for him by saying he doesn't look like "all those other presidents on the dollar bills." The Obama campaign says that Barry was not playing the race card when he made this statement.

Let's examine this, shall we? What would a rational person surmise from this statement? First of all, they're not all presidents on U.S. paper currency (Alexander Hamilton - $10 bill, Ben Franklin - $100 bill). What is it that binds all of these historical figures together? What is the common thread? Is it their hair color? No. Do they all have facial hair? Nope. Are they all wearing glasses? No, again.

I can only think of two recurring common traits:

1. They are all male, and

2. They are all caucasians.

Ok, so, a rational person can surmise after some examination that Barry is telling us that he is not a man, or he is not a caucasian. Now, the first option may be up for some debate, but I would tend to think a rational person would surmise that the underlying meaning of Barry's statement is the following:

"The McCain campaign will tell you not to vote for me because I am black."

Seems rational to me. But I'm a product of the public school system so I may be pushing the envelope. I'll let the more rational of us make up their minds for themselves.

There is a lot of campaigning left, but Barry seems to have a chronic case of foot-in-mouth disease. Will the Obamanians try to blame this latest gaffe on campaign fatigue? Because traveling across these 57 United States can take a toll on a guy. Or will they try to blame it on those racist crackers at the U.S. Mint? One thing's for sure: They hope you're not paying attention.