“Well, I think that is a fairly silly comment to make. I think Michael Steele’s problem isn’t the race card, it’s the credit card.”
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, alluding to GOP Chair Michael Steele’s assertion that people like himself and Pres. Obama, who are black, “have a slimmer margin of error” and therefore too much is being made of lavish RNC spending of donor money. While there’s no doubt Steele is correct that powerful blacks face additional scrutiny, the White House seemed to say, “Hey, don’t drag us into this, pal. You’re on your own.”