...please keep in mind that he WAS ASKED what he thought about the race / QB issue. It is not as though he held a press conference to express these views or went out of his way to vent these views at a post-game press conference. Go Eagles!

What an encouraging piece! It's so good to see that thinkers like Krugman are gaining (even more) traction and that folks are waking up to how socially and economically destructive the GOP has been during the last 30 years or so. Perhaps in the next few years, some of the people who drive around with "Support the Troops" magnets on their cars will start caring about the wage stagnation and general economic disparity that the GOP has allowed to fester...perhaps a "Support the Middle Class" magnet will come into vogue!

....that Biden won't be our next President. The guy has foibles (Hey, Mr. Kinnock), but which candidate doesn't? Biden is a straight shooter in the Howard Dean vein, but way to savvy to ever give anything like a "I Have a Scream Speech". Also, I'm sure that many have noticed that the leading candidates have followed his cues and said things like "Joe is right" about matters such as taking a year to get our of Iraq, etc.

Berkeley said: Here's my take away from this article: Biden knows he's got a very small chance of actually getting the nomination, much less winning, but he's got a national platform to build a case for being Secretary of State.

He would make a great Secy. of State. However, I think that he has gone on record as saying that he is not interested in being Secy. of State or VP.

....have been raised in these posts than in the article. Posters who deserve special notice (IMHO) are Anonymous 6:01 (for pointing out something that doesn't get mentioned enough...most of us Blacks believe that racism is real and that we should fight it, AND ALSO that we have "keep on keeping on" and strive to achieve...I've been Black for almost four decades and never met a Black who believed in giving up due to racism), ElyDog (for giving props the forgotten Black working class....the folks Bill Cosby implicitly crapped on during his "Pound Cake Speech" references to the "lower income people"), Coppelli21 (for indicating that while interracial harmony is ideal, the death of Black solidarity is not a good thing), and JJMMSS (for noting that racism and the lack of personal responsibility have to be attacked CONCURRENTLY, not separately).

Just to add my two cents...much has been of how destructive hip-hop culture is to the Black community, especially in the inner city. Some folks have lumped the rappers into a big anti-white, misogynistic, criminally-prone pile. Too few critics acknowledge that there are differnet sub-genres of hip-hop, just as there are with rcok (notice that no one ever lumps James Taylor with Marilyn Manson). Also, too few acknowledge the existence of "hate core" rock as a genre; it is a relatively small genre, but if there were Black parallels to "Prussian Blue" or "Bound for Glory", Fox and other conservative media organs would make sure that everyone knew about it.

I'm a Black guy who grew up relatively poor (single mom, free lunch in school, food stamps), but not in an an abject hell-hole like the Southside of Chicago or Watts (no offense to anyone who grew up in either of those places)...I am now what passes for "middle class" in wage-stagnated America. While we were poor and opposed to racism in my family, we knew that education and staying out of serious trouble were key. I also grew up with guys who wound up going to places like Sing Sing (some of whom were bright enough to be in academically talented classes in elementary school). Most of these guys hated racism, but did not (contrary to what most Conservatives seem to be believe) whine about "The Man" keeping them down...they dealt drugs b/c the money was easy, not b/c of "The System".

IMHO, most poor Blacks believe, and should believe, that we have to work hard / go to school and challenge racism (real racism, not whining if a random White dude gives you an awkward eye on the bus) CONCURRENTLY. We can't (and most of us don't) blame most of our major problems on Whites, but we can't work hard / go to school and ignore the studies that show that even with equal credentials, Lakeisha and Jamal are less likely to get good jobs than Brittany and Chad.

I prefer Obama (actually, I preferred Biden, but that's moot) to HRC, but I have to admit that she did a good job of holding her own on MTP today. After reading some the posts that make it sound like Russert attacked HRC, one thing needs to be pointed out: 1) While Russert was a little rough on her, folks who watch MTP regularly know that Russert uses his tactics (e.g., throwing apparently inconsisent quotes and sound clips at guests)on Republicans too...you may recall that it was Russert who pressed Romney on the Mormon Church's not allowing Black deacons until 1978 and yielded Romney's statement about having "seen" his father march with MLK. Russert was also rough on Ron Paul (about wanting to abolish the IRS) and Guiliani (about his post-9/11 clientele). In a way, Russert may have been easy on HRC...he didn't bring up that HRC criticized Obama in Iowa for stating as a 3rd grader that he wanted to president some day. Also, Russert didn't bring up that after HRC heard MLK in person, she volunteered for Goldwater.

Remember Reagan's 11th Comnmandment ("Thou Shall Not Speak Ill of a Fellow Republican")? We Democrats need an 11th Commandment like this, if we are ever going to take back the White House. As Bilary have shown, we don't have an 11th Commandment right now. Let's pray that we have one after the nomination.