I've experienced atrocious behavior in Pennsylvanian during the Bush maladministration in the court system and parole system: Don'y ask me today to go into detail. Well*

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White Collar Crime coverups, an illegal arrest of me when I proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt --- FRAUD, THEFT, ETC., in a Waynesboro Pa. Predator Lender Bank. (a long story about a Laundromat) The American Amerasian citizen, Kim Dong and family of two children..... LOST a Laundromat, homes, and hundred of thousands dollars....

I helped Kim get on her feet after her family came to America from Vietnam in the 90's. The courts are VULGAR.

The District Attorney, Mike Fisher, and the criminal investigation section (FBI) at the time of DOJ's Ashcroft was bed-rest...Well*

Whoa. Yippee. I had to take on a layman lawyer role. Who can find a honest lawyer? I had to stand up against the DOJ Criminal Gang.

Interesting: The lawyer who tricked my friend into a fraudulent deal got his 'solicitor' lawyer to M. Fisher GOP pal to rob, lie, and threaten Everybody. I don't want to be feeling cranky on such a pretty day! hush.

D.A. Nelson, in Franklin County Pa, knows what I'm talkin' 'bout. Ask him? Read the old public records.

Who cares? huh.

No one in the DOJ's FBI, in my experience.

Investigator Shertoff sure don't care.

What a rancid mulling mood.... hush.

I'd rather retain beagle pups to defend me next

I'll go to a kennel and buy a dog named Snoopy.

I had a bagel with red raspberries for breakfast.

In literature classes you learn that this is fear of "The Other"; of those outside the cohort of the speaker. He sure does show how race still eats at the social fabric.

What's with fear of 19" spinners, anyhow?

Wow. You have some real fear and loathing issues.

Perhaps one day you will notice a group of young blacks on the corner, or in the store, or wherever, and you will say to yourself, "You know what, I think I am tired of all the fear and hatred..."

I doubt that will happen, but I hope it does, for your sake. Yours is no way to live life my friend.

I think this is why Obama's speech this week was so powerful. That is certainly the main thing I took out of it. Are we not tired of living this way?

I have always thought that Bill Clinton recieved more credit than he deserved for being sensitive to racial issues. His rhetoric was great, but his policies generally were not.

But I will credit Clinton for initiating what I thought was a very good dialogue. Then Bush was selected and that was that...

Obama just has a special gift. Sure he isn't perfect, politically. I disagree with some of his stances on the issues. But as far as talking candidly and honestly, he is really something. There is probably no hope for the instapunks of the world, but there are millions of every color that have many of instapunk's same fears that will listen to Obama and decide that there is indeed a better way to approach things.

Corny, I know, but very true none the less.

It's time to go before I misspell Deuteronomy or leg rhinoplasty.

Jesus may get very angry at me? Moses may steal my baby lamb.

The old white man who sees Iverson as a "nigger" must only see his ink and braids, but is blind to his "heart". Iverson plays basketball with more will to win than any athlete. I'm a 65 year old white man raised in the South, and Iverson is one of my heros, 'my niggar', and I use the word "niggar" with the 'gar' spelling as a term of endearment just as a rapper would.

Us old white men are losing control of society which frightens many of us. It has causes us to become mean society. That we are a Christian society is a myth. "Love your neighbor as yourself" was the commandment of Christ.

Glenn, thanks for posting this extremely disturbing insight into the conservative mind, and thanks again to Barack Obama's speech for opening up the lines of conversation on something people have clearly been dying to talk about. The problem as I've always seen it is that there are a lot of people in this country (and world, let's be fair) who lack the ability to emphasize. I do think it's probably somewhat worse in America, due to the importance our culture places on individualism ... it becomes difficult to walk a mile in another person's shoes when everything in our culture is encouraging you to think of yourself as an isolated individual.

There are many people, I think, who look at someone suffering through the lens of their own experiences and subconsciously conflate that person's life path with their own. So someone like "Instapunk" looks at people different from himself and says "I am not that kind of person, I am human, therefore, no one who is human should be that kind of person." As opposed to the empathetic viewpoint, which is "there but for the grace of god go I"; i.e. "I am not that kind of person, I am human, therefore, I could be that kind of person."

And it is no accident that we hear this kind of thinking from Republicans more than Democrats, because the entire philosophy that "everyone enters the world with the exact same advantages" is inherently Republican. There are certainly Democrats who have a difficult time placing themselves in the shoes of others, but it is not the philosophical root of our politics. Because of this, I don't know how we will ever see eye to eye. Because we empathize with them, but they do not empathize with us. One side says, "I am interested in hearing where you are coming from," and the other side says, "I do not care to understand where you are coming from." How the hell can we see eye to eye when one side has no interest in doing so?