Realities being what they are, race will be an issue. I just hope it doesn't obscure the real issues.

Certainly the Bush administration is not without it's faults, I can't remember one that wasn't. We can agree to disagree on how good of a job President Bush has done.

If you're old enough, compare the Carter administration to the Bush administration and see how they stack up. Carter's only up side was his forward thinking on energy. His economics had inflation raging and mortgage interest rates as high as 18%. His dialogue based foreign policies made us the laughing stock of the globe. Those fine folks in Iran Barack's so anxious to chat with held over 100 American citizens hostage for 444 days and Carter did absolutely nothing about it. I take that back, he finally after a year authorized a small undermanned mission that ended in the desert with crashed helicopters and dead American soldiers.

We should've put a Bush sized boot up the back of the Ayatolla's robe back then instead of trying to rationalize with those who want to kill instead of talk. If we had, there prolly would never have even been an Obama Bin Laden, and the World Trade Center towers would still be standing tall.

I point all this out because BO reminds me more of Jimmy Carter than any pol I've ever seen, except he's even more liberal than Jimmy is. Well, he is a different color, maybe that's the change the Dems are carrying on about.