Race not issue in not backing Obama

It is indeed astonishing that the election is over and your newspaper is still printing and distributing the voice of division. I did not vote for Mr. Obama for president, but not because of his skin color. I am at the complete opposite end of the political spectrum than he is on nearly all of the issues. The fact that your paper, as slanted to the left as its election coverage was, would print a letter to the editor suggesting that Republicans and people that did not vote for Obama are racists is reprehensible and clearly crosses the line.

For his part, Mr. McCain was, if anything, too evasive on the race card as played by the Democrats. They used it to their advantage knowing that McCain could not have a response lest he look unsympathetic in fear of being labeled as a racist.

Unfortunately, in our current hypersensitive overly politically correct environment, I guess I will have to settle on being labeled a racist because I did not vote for the man with a different name and a different skin color. I guess the other 47 percent of the country and I that did not vote for Obama will have to live with this label. By the way, I DID vote for Alan Keyes in 2004.

Lee Goldberg

Vernon Hills