For we have a choice in this country . We can accept a politics that breeds division , and conflict , and cynicism . We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the O . J . trial - or in the wake of tragedy , as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news . We can play Rev . Wright ´ s sermons on every channel , every day and talk about them from now until the election , and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words . We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she ´ s playing the race card , or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies .