Enough said, now that Rev. Wright is not towing the line.  And please note how the main stream media including has downplayed Obama's calling Reagan a "Transformative Leader".  The only transformation I saw Reagan do was to tarnish the entire Black community by raising the images of "Welfare Queens" and "Strapping fellas buying steaks with food stamps", and don't let anybody tell me he meant people of his skin color.  Then there was

Enough said, now that Rev. Wright is not towing the line.  And please note how the main stream media including has downplayed Obama's calling Reagan a "Transformative Leader".  The only transformation I saw Reagan do was to tarnish the entire Black community by raising the images of "Welfare Queens" and "Strapping fellas buying steaks with food stamps", and don't let anybody tell me he meant people of his skin color.  Then there was

In spite of all the accolades Obama’s speech got from the usual suspects,(Matthews, as usual, foaming at his mouth said it should be required reading for 1st graders and new graduates!!! Somebody should remind you guys about Gandhi, Tutu and Mandela et.al.) I just saw it as a balancing act in essence, something along the lines of:

• So what if Wright (who is Black) said what he said, so did my Grandma (who is White), so there, Whites are as good/bad as Blacks.
• So what if Wright said what he said about what the Whites did to the Blacks, HIV AIDS, Drugs, etc., at least you guys gave us bad schools and did other experiments on Blacks, so there

You get the drift. The basic point is that the Senator with such great judgment did not have the simple judgment that an Irishwoman from

Cripes yourself Laura.  Looks as if you are again, shooting without looking first. This is what you wrote, “Hillary is going to have to increasingly claim that everyone is out to "get" her. She's going to look absolutely ridiculous. First it's the vast right-wing conspiracy. Then, it's the unfairly biased television media. Now I'm starting to hear that it's liberal print journalism and the blogosphere as well.” 

The reasons you cite Laura, for voting for Obama "I like his ideas, I like his track record, I like his temperament, I like his demonstrable good judgment, I like his management and leadership skills, and I like his grassroots, bottom-up approach to both his campaigning and his ideas about political reform" leaves me totally bewildered as to where you saw him demonstrate any of these things.

What Geraldine did was stating the obvious.  And believe me, truth hurts, and based upon the peoples’ reactions she has clearly spoken the truth.  As Gandhi (please don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with the name, he is one of those “Macacas”, like me)  had said, "It takes two people to speak the truth, one who will say it and the one who will hear it."  Unfortunately the second person is missing here.