Race Relations

Well, is it safe to say the White House beer solved the race question in America?

Here is Hitchens writing on Obama and race during the election.

To have accepted Obama's smooth apologetics is to have lowered one's own pre-existing standards for what might constitute a post-racial or a post-racist future. It is to have put that quite sober and realistic hope, meanwhile, into untrustworthy and unscrupulous hands. And it is to have done this, furthermore, in the service of blind faith. Mark my words: This disappointment is only the first of many that are still to come.

It seems rather prescient doesn't it?

ps - read the whole article. it is very smart and talks about the reverand wright episode and how obama cynically knew he needed wright for his "base" and that he'd throw him under the bus when it came to national election time. not only that, he did it by equating wright to geraldine ferraro and his white grandmother (both decent folks). anyhow, it makes it pretty obvious that men of character do not come out of the american political system.