Obama isn't playing race card, just touting lack of experience

Yesterday, Barack Obama once again claimed the McCain would attack him for how he looks:

So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama told a crowd in Springfield. "You know, 'He's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name.' You know, 'He doesn't look like all of those other presidents on the dollar bills.' "

McCain's camp hit back, saying :

Obama "played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said in a statement. He called Obama's remarks "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

Well now, Obama's campaign has come back and claimed that Obama, when he said "doesn't look like all those other presidents", wasn't talking about skin color, but about experience:

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday that the senator was not referring to race.

"What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn't get here after spending decades in Washington," Gibbs said. "There is nothing more to this than the fact that he was describing that he was new to the political scene. He was referring to the fact that he didn't come into the race with the history of others. It is not about race."

I don't believe it for a minute, especially since Obama regularly says things like:

Addressing supporters Tuesday night at a fundraiser in Springfield, Mo., he said, "It's a leap, electing a 46-year-old black guy named Barack Obama."

But if Obama wants to argue that what he meant was that he doesn't have the experience that every other President we've elected has had, I'm not going to argue with that. Obama is the most inexperienced, incapable, unready person we have ever picked as a major party nominee for President. He looks nothing like ANY other president we have ever chosen when it comes to being capable and knowledgeable enough for the job.