A couple thoughts about the race
One illuminating, one discomfiting
HuffPost: If You Really Want to Understand What This Race is About, Look at the Two Candidates’ Fathers
How dare that elitist Obama have a poor and troubled upbringing, and lord it over the humble and not-at-all psychologically damaged McCain?
Slate: If Obama Loses… Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him.
What’s it take to swing a close election; two, three percent? There’s way more than that who wouldn’t vote for Obama (or any other black man) if he were Jesus Christ carrying the cure for the common cold in a suitcase full of diamonds.