President Obama and his allies won the political battle on health care but lost the debate on substance. And instead of fighting on the merits and trying to convince the American people of their brilliance, the left wing is dealing from the bottom of the deck and playing their political trump card - by calling critics racist (with scant evidence). But for some reason, one man has been eerily silent - the President of the United States.

Nobody supports calling John Lewis the n-word. No credible leader is calling Barney Frank a f——t. All clear thinking Americans reject this kind of hatred. &Tea Party members don’t need a lecture from a Democratic party whose he accepted an apology without even so much as a senior senator is a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. When Harry Reid referred to Obama as a “light skinned” black man who didn’t speak with a “negro dialect”- he accepted an apology without even so much as a beer summit. In this case, there isn’t clear cut evidence yet at half the country is being slandered. This must stop.

President Obama just won the biggest legislative victory on social legislation since LBJ, but he’s tacitly allowing his supporters to drag the country into an unnecessary race war. When the Rev. Wright issue threatened his bid for the Democratic nomination, Obama took a couple days off and came back with what the liberal punditry thought was a marvelous speech on race. At that time, his political career was on the line. But now, the country needs him to lead on the race issue and reject the attempts by the far left to smear patriotic, peaceful Americans who just don’t want the federal government to spend trillions of dollars to ruin the best health care system in the world and bankrupt our kids. Obama needs to convince America that his plan is good, not have them condemned for daring to criticize.

President Obama may be the only man who can calm the irrational fears on the left that their many of their fellow Americans hate him because he’s black.  He knows better.

It’s time for the President to weigh in and try to unite the country.  Mr. President, it’s time to lead and your silence is deafening. 

Also, for all you fans of MSNBC…

Contacts inside their offices there tell us that there is more and more talk of the Comcast takeover. The working theory is that the new bosses are going to pull the plug on this left-wing hate-fest. Expect a ratcheting up of the negative rhetoric in the coming days in part because they need to find something to prop up dwindling ratings, but also because they know that their time is short.

You would think that MSNBC would have gotten a little bit of a bump after the Olympics, but Keith’s show has lost 11% March 2009 to March 2010. In the “key” demo (viewers 25-54), he has 33% of his viewers.

And check this out: Mediaite: Countdown Tops CNN Again, But Rates Better Without Olbermann.