barry: "IF I LOSE , IT WON'T BE BECAUSE OF RACE"

April 28, 2008 FOX News Interview with Chris Wallace.

Obama says unequivacally that RACE WILL NOT BE AN ISSUE.

WALLACE: Senator, for all your efforts to run a post-racial campaign, isn't there still a racial divide in this country that is going to make it very hard for you to get elected president?

OBAMA: And if I fit the bill, then they will vote for me. If I lose, it won't be because of race. It will be because, you know, I made mistakes on the campaign trail, I wasn't communicating effectively my plans in terms of helping them in their everyday lives.

But I don't think that race is going to be a barrier in the general election.

How he has changed his mind. Especially with the dollar bills when axelrod FINALLY admitted they were using race. On Clyburne ad Bill Clinton

WALLACE: Congressman James Clyburn, one of the top African American politicians in this country, said this week that blacks are furious with Bill Clinton for playing the race card.

Do you agree with him that there's been a deliberate effort by the former president and some Clinton supporters to make race an issue in this Democratic race?

OBAMA: I don't think there's been a deliberate effort. You know, I take the president at his word that, you know, he is...

WALLACE: Which one?

OBAMA: Well, oftentimes, you know, I think that he's been going after me hard. He may not have intended it in a racial way. I think he just sees me as competition against his wife. And that's what, you know, husbands do, hopefully, or spouses do in...

WALLACE: Lumping you in with Jesse Jackson...

OBAMA: ... political contests. Well, you know, I thought that that was probably somewhat dismissive, you know, after we had won that contest pretty handily.

And Jesse Jackson did not find anything offensive about what President Clinton said.