Victor Davis Hanson is one of the really smart guys who has a good feel for what the average American thinks.  This column  goes along way in explaining why our country seems to be heading backwards in race relations.  The media spin during the 2008 presidential election was that candidate Barack Obama was a race healer .  As Hanson writes though, we had plenty of clues to know that he was in fact a divider and would likely use race.  "His two-decade apprenticeship at Trinity Church under the racist and anti-Semitic Rev. Jeremiah Wright has never been adequately explained. Obama indulged in racial stereotyping himself when he wrote off the white lower-middle class of Pennsylvania as clueless zealots clinging to their guns, religion and xenophobia.  Obama also characterized his grandmother as a "typical white person" when he implied that her supposed fear of young black males symbolizes the prejudices of the entire white community."  Yes the clues were there, but voters ignored it and now we are in the middle of an administration that actually does use race to divide the country.