What are we to do? So many words that might be used to describe Barack Obama are being shouted down as being "racist". Here is the roll -- and it is an ever-expanding one:   "Clean and articulate" (remember those words, Joe Biden?)  "Skinny" "Arrogant""The One" (David Gergen says that in the South -- it's always the South -- this term means "uppity" "Exotic""Angry""Risky" "Disrespecful" "His middle name" (which shall not be used here)  "Community Organizer" : New York Governor David Patterson was merely the most famous person to register this charge -- it has been a popular one on the web. David Shipler had an interesting riff a few months back on synonyms that revealed racism:    "Elitist" is another word for "arrogant," which is another word for "uppity," that old calumny applied...(Read Full Post)