Great job on Hal; but I think he will never get it. He sees through "racist"-colored glasses.

But you gotta give him credit. He did write a post where he got to use the word "boobs". He is on his way to working for CNN!

Geebus, when do you think the last 4 presidential elections happened? Guess you missed Al Sharpton, too.

Wink wink,nod nod.

I can't even begin to imagine what you are trying to convey with this. Are you doing a Triumph-style troll? Because if you are, you suck at it.

Yes, there's always the qualification of "qualified", isn't there. The subjective term which conveniently allows you to somehow filter out Jesse Jackson and others.

But hey, keep up the whole "Republicans are the TRUE party of diversity" bit. As I've said, I'm behind such efforts 110%.

Whereas,their normal reaction to a confession of Christian faith is the vitriolic assertion that Christianity itself is a disqualifier for public office and perhaps even proof of insanity!

Back that up with examples. Ty my knowledge, every Democratic candidate for President has professed their Christianity.

Like I said, keep it up. You guys only keep making yourselves look ever more like stupid boobs and continually embarrass your party and require them to keep sweeping you back into the holes you periodically crawl out of. The whole "racist" whine you seem to have perfected simply exposes you for the loon you seem to be struggling to be.

Just think. You face the next four years of either HRC as your president or Obama. It's kind of like a Republican nightmare. A woman - a Clinton! - or a black man. No wonder you guys are in hell.

Personally it sounds like pure Clintonian nuance disguised as an apology (for white racists?)

I suppose it depends upon what the meaning of racism is.

There are, to steal John Edwards’ shopworn phrase, indeed “two Americas,” and the controversy surrounding Rev. Jeremiah Wright and presidential contender Barack Obama has brought that to the surface, most prominently in the latter’s speech Tues...

You democrats are indeed the party of racists. Your comment alone about the KKK being republican says it all.

Liberals are obsessed with race. Republicans only care about prosperity for all and are color blind. Dems want to hand out money to solve problems-give a man a fish as it were. Conservatives instead teach men to fish. Liberals have supported programs that over the years have given away countless billions (trillions?) to able-bodied people. Yet it is republicans that get the blame for the resulting utter failure of these giveaways. Democrats celebrate their own racist party members, while republicans drive out theirs.

Democrats are the most racist of any party. Their presumed nominee, their "Obamessiah", belongs to an obviously racist church and is himself racist for his continual denials until it was politically expedient to admit it all today.

Minorities should stop being the lap dog of the democrats-it has gotten them nowhere, according to Obamessiah-and vote republican. The Republican Party has their best economic and security interests in mind. Only we don’t call it “in the best interests of minorities”. We call it the best interests for EVERYbody equally.

Learn to live with it, liberals: Omama is toast. God BLESS America.

It's a multifacted entry that's impossible to summarize. As usual, Joyner talks about the moral dimensions of the issue, the rhetorical devices Obama used, and the way this "Wright Stuff" stuff may affect public opinion/the horse races. There is al...

Shorter James Joyner: “I haven’t heard it, but I’m qualified to write 1,000 word opinion about it.”

We are just hearing the same hysterical crap from the corporate media about the ONE sermon over and over again.

He goes from being a Muslim to a Christian, led by a pastor who preaches hate.

Never thought I’d say that, but agreeing with Charles Murray of “The Bell Curve” fame is making me freak out.

There’s a world of difference between preaching against an evil (abortion) and preaching that is an evil - racial hatred.

Spoken like a true white boy James…

Lastly, Shelby Steele is an idiot.

Indeed, and this is what scares the Republicans to the point of running for the Depends.

But then I already know the answer to that, and it has nothing to do with “racism”, per se.

You don’t stop racism by promoting racism.

Let’s remember which party the KKK belongs to, shall we?

As represented by the Senator from WVA?

How many Catholics need to swallow their bile when their boy-fondling priests lecture them about birth control and abortion?

That's no more than one sentence from any one comment while some individuals are quoted several times. Admittedly, many of the problems introduced by these comments have nothing to do with race, but that just highlights the problems in this medium with trying to focus on a single train of challenging and difficult thought without the casual introduction of extraneous baggage, questioning of motives, bad faith, logical errors, convoluted facts, and rampant definitional differences.

I apologize for the lack of specifics, but there's just too much to wade through and I lack the time and skin thick enough to do so.