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To: Cogito who wrote (134137)	3/22/2010 1:55:13 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 540985

This wonderful line was my favorite of the night. It actually works for this. "The air has been redolent with falsehoods and deceit." John Dingall

To: Cogito who wrote (134137)	3/22/2010 7:55:00 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 540985

McCain was born outside this country, so one might stretch things to say there was some question in his case. As for Obama, the people who wanted to bring him down invented the controversy out of whole cloth. While I recognize the distinction that you are making, it seems to me that they are more alike each other than either is like George W., where we already knew his parents, or Clinton, where, if we aren't his parents, we know people just like his parents. Schoolyards, which is what we have nowadays in politics, have a tendency to single out anything that is different. It ain't pretty and it ain't reasonable but that's the way it works. Being born out of the immediate country and having a foreign parent are both different. Each living outside the immediate, familiar country during his youth is also different. Difference is opportunity for those who want to make trouble for whatever reason. It's the fact of the difference, not the particularity of the difference. The claim doesn't not need to make sense. I don't think there's enough evidence to infer and assert with confidence that the treatment of Obama is racism. Suspecting is one thing and claiming is another. It's at least as likely that it's typical partisan hostility and mindlessness.