Unlike you, I have the intellectual depth to understand why an African-American might not always hold America in the highest regard. As for disgracing the White House, it's gonna be a long, long time before anybody disgraces that residence the way Bush has.

Now go listen to your Styx CD's and bask in whiteness.

Good question. Maybe, "... seek a sense of safety and security in whiteness."

Does hunthorse realize that a good 70 percent or so of the Amreican public are pretty malcontented these days?

Hunthorse,

1) Entitlements? Nothing compares to the Republican policy of Wealthfare for corporations - run a company into the ground, hold thousands of jobs as hostages, and then demand a government bailout. Wealth redistribution, Republican style.

2) 10 percent (if that's accurate...) of the population makes most of the money, why shouldn't they pay most of the taxes?

3) We won't leave the country because we're not pussies like you. You didn't like Jimmy Carter so you bailed? You're no different than those wimps who moved away to Canada or wherever in protest of Bush. We will stand our ground.

4) Reagan was not a blessing to those of us who work for a living.

5) Think about and try what, exactly?

Try not to ramble so incoherently in your next post.

Your last post is even goofier than the one you posted before it. You're just posting gibberish now. Trust me, you don't need that last drink.

First, Salon cancels the Blog Report - one of the primary reasons that I was attracted to Salon in the first place.

Then, Salon starts publishing bullshit like this. Seriously, what the fuck? This article basically says that if the primary elections adopted an electoral college system, HRC would be the presumtive nominee. Fuck that. The electoral college is one of the most fucked up institutions in American politics. How else can you have a situation where one candidate wins more votes and another wins the election?

Salon has become little more than a mouthpiece for the HRC campain (sic). By that measure, Salon will be out of business by the time Obama wins the nomination.

Dear god, I'm gonna have to start reading Slate every day.

It was nice while it lasted...

Few things alarmed some corners of White America more than Tiger Woods donning the famed Green Jacket for the first time. Now, just as Woods made his way into a formerly exclusively white club, Obama is poised to do the same and clearly some people will reflexively recoil at that very idea.

Isn't the Confederacy full of people who like to imagine that the Civil War is still going on? I mean, they go to great lengths to reenact famous battles with painstaking attention to detail.

Maybe in 100 years we'll have Iraq invasion reenactments...

I've read a lot of ignorant rants from bushies, but yours in one of the stupidest I've seen in a long, long time. I commend you.

"thanks to bush, they no longer control a country (afghanistan)..." - I'm not sure where you get your news, but the Taliban (you know, the folks who gave Bin Laden a safe haven after 9/11) are very much in control of large parts of Afghanistan.

"...and a grand supporter has been taken out (Iraq)." - Great, Bush replaced a stable, if problematic regime, with near total chaos and created a breeding ground for terror. Brilliant!

Should we "...adopt sharia, destroy israel?" - This is so stupid, I'll just let it bask in ignorance all by itself. Who exactly has suggested either of these things?

"their ability to attack us has been weakened." - You clearly know nothing about terrorism. In densely populated, infrastucture-dependent urban areas, it only takes a few individuals, perhaps acting alone, to create mass havoc.

"Martin is hoping the US will be attacked and that will teach us a lesson." - Well, America has been attacked, and clearly people like you haven't learned anything, so that disproves that theory.

"wait and see how stupid we will be if we are attacked again." - If?

"the fact that we have not been attacked since 9/11 is because bush prevented it and for that he is hated." - 1) Where the hell was Bush on 9/10? 2) You seem to have a very hazy idea of what a cause/effect relationship is. 3) Even if that were true, that's not why people hate him.

Your last two senteces are unintelligble.

PS - buy yourself some capital letters.

... but will the right peole read it or will it effectively preach to the choir? Will this change anybody's minds? How does one entice the political opposition into reading (and accepting) a critique of itself?

Glenn - I certainly don't mean to detract from your efforts. I've learned a great deal from books like this. I look forward to reading it, as I do your insightful articles on Salon.

You're probably right that few, if any, of the Republican base would bother to pick the book up.

Jebbie - Your points are well taken. But that's kind of the problem. I have a circle of freinds who are realtively politically aware and we do trade such books back and forth and we discuss their merits and whatnot, but we're all more or less similarly politically aligned to begin with. Birds of a feather flock together and whatnot. I would bet I'm not alone in this.

I read somewhere recently that this is a problem throughout the political spectrum, left, center, and right. The books sell, people attend the lectures, people rent the DVDs, but often the information consumer is one who seeks to reinforce presumed postions and not one who seeks to have his/her positions challenged.