As I was unable to post a comment on this article, despite being registered at the Post (perhaps they don't want any more comments? I will post here what I have just sent to Ms. Parker and the JWR:

My roots in the US go back three centuries. All of my ancestors were from the British Isles. I'm eligible for both the DAR and the Daughters of the Confederacy. I would say that I'm entitled to consider myself a full-blooded American, even though some of my ancestors actually fought for the Confederacy, which you might want to say would constitute making war against the United States. But then you wouldn't want to say that, would you? White southerners who are descended from Confederate soldiers are just fine. But Obama? His grandfather may have fought for the US in World War II, but he's just not quite right, eh? He doesn't quite "get" America.

How disgusting. Are you old enough to remember the various gradations of whiteness - one great-greatgrandparent who was black made you an Octaroon, and no way could polite society consider you to be A Full-Blooded American. I had hoped after the bloody work of the civil rights era in the sixties that maybe we would no longer have these caste distinctions. But you are happy to revive this filth.

I am astonished and repelled by your screed in the Jewish World Review. As for the editors who published it, I can't imagine what they were thinking - or am I just misremembering history, that allegations of not being "full-blooded enough" Germans led to some trouble 70 years ago?

I hope that you are capable of reflecting on what you have done and stopping. But given the tripe that you have published in the Washington Post about Obama and Edwards, I would guess that you are not.

The rest of the world knows about these horror stories, even though we do not. Mr. Bush does not think about them, or he could not sleep, ever again...and what are we to do? Is there any way for an ordinary citizen to stop this madness? Each of you reading this, ask yourself how you and your family would feel if a rebellious teenage family member had been tossed into prison in, say, Saudi Arabia, for alleged attacks on the government...Remember the accuracy of eye-witness accounts and the reward money paid to informants for turning in just any old kid...

Yep, they hate us for our freedoms.

My rep, Sylvestre Reyes, sends out a letter denying that he will support any immunity for telecoms, and it appears to be fairly straight-forward...but it is hard to believe anything anymore. I've made it clear that this issue is make-or-break for me. Let's keep reporting on each and every one of the 435, and especially the Democrats...this is the Tipping Point for the Constitution!

And by the way, happy Magna Carta Day and Wat Tyler Day....two days late. Let's honor those events by not allowing our own liberties to be wrecked!

Out here in Texas today was Juneteenth, the day that the former slaves heard of their freedom...and in the future it will be known as the day that any American who cared about the Constitution heard that the Democratic Party handed Bush the shovel with which to bury it. Of course this will not be noted openly as any such recognition will be considered to be "aiding and abetting the Terrorists."

Has anyone tried to read 1984 lately? I just did, and it was too painful...I had to stop.