Obama's campaign is bringing out both the most hopeful and the most heinous attitudes in the world. Most people fall between those two attitude-camps. There is a full and very complex spectrum of attitudes about race in play in this election. So let me start by telling you what I am NOT saying. I am not saying that anyone voting for McCain is racist. I am not saying that everyone voting for Obama is NOT racist.

I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I'm not liberal and I'm not conservative. I'm moderate and I'm Independent. I vote for the candidate, not the party, and typically my ballots include votes for members from both parties. So at this point in the presidential election, I'm feeling a little lost.