Barack Obama, asked by a Philadelphia radio station (610 WIP-am) this morning to clarify the comments he had made about his white grandmother during his “Race Speech” a couple of days ago (during which he threw her under the bus–telling an international audience of millions that she had made bigoted comments, engaged in racial stereotypes and was afraid of black men on the street,) responded:

“the point i was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, shoe doesn’t, but she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way.”

Y’know, when a guy spends 20 years as a member of Jeremiah Wright’s church, subjected to his brand of vitriolic hate speech, I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised at his idea of a “typical white person.”

I can’t help but be concerned at how this perspective would inform a Barack Obama presidency.