9 responses

• Jim Cowie Apr 23, 2008
   

  Now I really feel like making up t-shirts that say "far-left, atheist, elite, pansy Godless snob fraud."

   
• Arkansan Apr 23, 2008
   

  But a single digit win against a young black man in a polarized race suggests that this compliment was past its sell-by date. It was an act of desperation, and one last grab back to the past. It didn't quite do what it was supposed to do. Nearly, but not quite.
  
  The past is receding; but the future has yet to be born. This is hard labor. Necessary labor. But the direction of this country is clear, it seems to me. And heartening.
  
  

   
• Arkansan Apr 23, 2008
   

  Sullivan concludes:

   
• Arkansan Apr 23, 2008
   

  Sullivan's conclusion

   
• Arkansan Apr 23, 2008
   

  Sullivan's "rest of the story"

   
• Arkansan Apr 23, 2008
   

  My conclusion, too.

   
• todd Apr 23, 2008
   

  I still worry about the latent racism (and sexism) that is playing out here. If a significant majority of white men vote for mccain, simply because he's a white guy and they are uncomfortable with anything else, that's going to be very difficult to overcome.

   
• smckenzie23 Apr 23, 2008
   

  How does "By any means necessary!" sound?

   
• notgneiss Apr 23, 2008
   

  Maybe Bilary should nominate Rove as VP