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One wonders what they would have to show in response.
It's not that they're objectifying white people, but that Obama's people are trying to show he has white support to keep him from being branded as the "black" candidate." We were in a similar siutation in 1996, when I was running the campaign of a white Republican against the first black mayor of Wilmington. We certainly made no appeals based on race, but through no fault of our own, we were stuck with a racially divided electorate. To show that we weren't appealing just to white voters (despite what the News-Journal claimed, even after we complained to them multiple times about their stating that), we made a definite effort to put our black supporters front and center. (We even held off on announcing our "Democrats for..." until we could find a black person willing to put their name as a member of the leadership team. We had plenty of black Democrat support, but many were afraid to put their name out publicly.)
That's all that Obama is trying to do here: show that he has white support, which is factually true. It's about controlling the message and images the campaign is displaying. Race is a means to that end in this case, not an end in itself and therefore not objectionable, in my opinion.