http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18...

Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.

In which case I wrecked it.

Obama has openly accepted misogynistic hate, whether it was to advance his career or just for fun (see: the past two years, most recently by appointing the economic failure that is Summers, refusing to even punish Favreau, and inviting Warren to the inauguration). Being complicit in any form of bigotry is a damaging to your children, but it's all the more appalling when you accept such hate directed right at them. Worse when you seem to revel in it.

True, as daughters of Barack Obama, they'll likely be spared most of the hate (especially since they're young), but one must remember that the girls' status as people is totally dependent on the status of their father and that no First Daughter has ever been immune from anti-female bigotry. If at any time, his status drops, the girls will again be incredibly vulnerable to misogyny (with a strong dose of racism). I'm guessing Obama, like most bigoted fathers, just assumes his girls will be exempted as long as they aren't "provocative."

Don't you think?

A little too ironic ... and yeah, I really do think ...

It's like rain - on your wedding day.
It's the free ride - when you've already paid.
It's the good advice - that you just didn't take.

And who would've thought?
It figures.

should just get over it.

It describes his behavior during the primaries. There was ugly, and there was AmericaBlog ugly. That should never, ever be forgotten without proper penance.

and telling ppl to STFU -- Dan Savage on Andrew Sullivan on Rick Warren --

& the first comment there --

Obama is on his way to becoming a truly indispensable politician, which is one who can inspire gratitude in his broad constituency while simultaneously keeping them fearful that he might remove his patronage. It's a Daley thing.