Wow! "The tittering reactions of the naively sheltered." That's some old-time invective for ya.

"The naively sheltered," here, I think, means "people who haven't yet had affairs with presidents."

Unfortunately they really do think like that - look at this blog - it's high school writ small with the same nasty, meanspirited cliquish behavior you'd expect from the bully kids who weren't taught any better.

p.s. My son's unit is coming home from Iraq this week. He hopes to go to graduate school this fall. Hope you're well.

You sound bitter.

You know, this is getting tiresome because it's so deeply disingenuous.

Clinton's entire campaign has been run on one unspoken (barely)idea - Barack can't win because he's black and "people" won't vote for him.

You can pretend otherwise, but you aren't going to get anywhere.

You can shut up about the race card - ya here? Hillary played the whole fucking hand and it's a cute Republican tactic - when caught, instantly accuse your opponent of being guilty. I've seen it over and over - and that is what Hillary and her supporters have been doing.

Nobody's called NY or Mass racist even though they went to Clinton. Nobody has done so because those voters weren't racist, unlike the ones in WV.

The 21% of whites in WVa who admitted race was very important are the ones playing the race card. Your qualifier "only" says it all. You admit and agree that some racism is mixed in there. Of course it's not all of it. But the extremity of the margin in this state is racist.

And having lived in Mass for several years, the state with the last true race riots in America, of course there's a significant cadre of urban Boston folk who won't vote black. But the margin there wasn't 41 points, either. So I don't think of the Mass result as racist on its face; his losing of course is not racist at all. But the 41 in WVa is, and you know it.

Oregon Activist, I agree with you. Although I found Monica's post humorous, I had to double back and remember that Obama and the rest of us have a lot of work to do. The people from West Virginia are people with whom we should all be finding solidarity - and the racism (which is there, to be sure) needs to be overcome through efforts to better all of our lives. I think Obama can do that and will do that, and that's the reason I'm behind him. That's also the reason Hillary's appeal to hard working "white" voters has been so divisive. I'm thankful that she's disavowed that statement and seems to be taking a more reasonable approach to the end of her campaign.

Let's harvest these pearls of wisdom:

Humor must be annihilated.

Everyone is racist.

But mocking racism in the W Va vote shows my class prejudice!

You think you "give a damn" about working people but just said _every single white working person_ is racist.

Are we stuck in a bad seminar at a third rate private college?

Well, like most people in it, Josh Marshall enjoyed the post (check bottom of thread).

Have a nice evening!

Thanks so much.

Much easier to piss and destroy than create, eh?

I would love it if people on the other side of whatever divide exists on this thread could satirize in favor of their views. Humor is good. Period.

The problem is, there's an Obama/Clinton divide, and (not the same thing) a humor is good/I have no f'ing sense of humor divide. Louis one in the Clinton-but-humor-good column. Wish we had more of those.