[Michael.SF.]

Personally, I would prefer that the Democrats continue to believe that we have been able to steal two presidential elections through conniving, subterfuge, intimidation and computer programing of voting machines.

It's either that, or they figure out that their policies are absolute failures, which would then cause them to revaluate their strategy.

[noodler]

I do thank you for presenting in concise way a difficult trip.I agree with the editorial leaning except in paragraph I think fourth from bottom.To be more clear the dems actually believe(?!) what they are saying..They don't even believe it more than they believe in...Well you get the point.This is basically about people trying to hold their head above water until they drown.THEY have used every means necessary.They have perverted and disinformed those who they said they would speak frankly to.They are resonsible as are many hordes of hoodlems they've groomed to further destroy their community and beyond.Then pepper them,with crap but no info.Pour gasoline on firey thought.We need Mike Tyson to punch some these buggers Out!

[nathanbedford]

To be sure, the intentional suppression or intimidation of black voters (or any other group) would be horrendously unconscionable. But so is the intentional perpetuation of the false charge that Republicans are racists, merely because they have philosophical and ideological differences with Democrats

Well, the report is written, the Republicans exonerated, the Democrats proven wrong, the Black "community" was race-baited, and the press was AWOL.

Now, lets see if we can find something new or at least new to say about this biennial flowering in American politics.

First, the Republicans took their pro-forma excoriation like broken, dispirited dogs who were so used to the whipping they have come to believe they deserve it. But there are signs of progress, Sen. McCain, at least so far, has shown uncharacteristic restraint in not publicly joining in this season's round of condemnation to express his "regret." The Party too has shown unwonted spirit by not calling on Trent Lott to apologize again.

Second, The black ghetto in America continues to be defenseless to the the virus of conspiracy theory which increasingly has come to dominate Afro-American politics.

Third, it continues to be the case that one cannot point to a prominent Black leader who is not a demagogue. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Louis Farrakand, the list is long. Blacks like Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell or Condeleeza Rice have no respect, power, or intellectual and moral influence commensurate with their achievements. It still pays to demagogue.

Fourth, the American African-American ghetto is beginning to share more characteristics of the Arab Street. Its penchant for conspiracy, its confirmed attachment to victimood, its contempt for orderly society and its devotion to false leaders suggest that future for those African-Americans who cannot break free of this Al Jazzera mentality will not be bright.

Fifth, the liberal establishment is creating a monster in our midst. The dysfunctionality of the Black dilemma is creeping into mainstream America and especially into the Democrat party. That party is becoming impervious to logic and to reality. The cancer has spread to the press and the academic establishment which have repeatedly demonstrated that these institutions cannot deal with race free of agenda politics.

Sixth, so long as those who should and do know better do not refrain from the sort of race-baiting exhibited by Gov. Dean, the old adage of American politics must be amended to read: In America all politics are racial.

How sad that the central historical issue of the Great American Experiment, the question of race in America, is being so cynically exploited by one of its two great parties when at last we might have had a chance to solve the great American dilemma.