It also struck me as strange in this endless campaign that nobody’s addressed this before (perhaps they have on PJM and I just missed it). Or am I being dense by wondering about this?

Sounds like it was his fault. If the citizens dislike an incumbent so much that they vote for a moron… well seems likely that they screwed the pooch somewhere along the line…

Well, in all honesty, they died to ‘preserve the Union’. Lincoln had already told the South that they could keep the slaves if the rejoined the Union. Though I am surprised that no one holds remembrances of the Emancipation Proclamation… even if it was just a political football, the end result was good.

However, as someone already pointed out. The Civil War didn’t really end the issues facing the African descended minority. Really, they had improvements in fits and starts until the Civil Rights movement made some headway… and a lot of people are still alive who lived through that time (and before). I don’t find them wrong for being angry and hurt… just for projecting that anger and hurt on all of America, rather than the ignorant minority of white people too stupid to see past skin color. Stereotyping works both ways.

“I believe in this guy like I’ve never believed in a candidate in my life.”

I don’t think Casey’s statement is that extreme really. (But switch the placement of “candidate” and “guy” in that sentence and I agree he needs insitutional care.) When I first heard Obama speak at the Democratic Convention that launched his national career, I felt the seed of the possibility of feeling as Casey said. Turns out he is certainly not the color-blind, post-partisan dream that he has, until recently, so capably and theatrically depicted.

The Fop: While I do not defend or excuse the continuing/prevailing negativity and “blaming mentality” of a significant portion of the black U.S. population (to the contrary, I think it entirely counter-productive if the goal really is “Can’t we all just get along?”), I think the fact of slavery and, more importantly, the pervasive legally mandated discrimination and humilation that remained for many decades after, is still too recent in memory to expect a formal celebration by blacks of the whites who died in the Civil War fighting for the North. But I do hope such a time comes.

Bruce

Nice work, thank you Kos and MoveOn.

Obama will be looking like something the cat drug in December. Democrats will be standing around wondering how the hell did they manage to screw up that badly.

Blacks all across the Country will spout all sorts of conspiracy theories on why Barak Hussein Obama lost and none of them will manage to even come close.

If we are well and truly lucky the left will avoid going completely nuts and starting a civil war when the American public rejects them. If we are well and truly lucky the Blacks won’t revolt against their hated White Masters….the way they see it.