Just shaking my head...

[misanthrope]

...at today's editorial from the board of the Mobile Register concerning Shrub's universal popularity: http://www.al.com/opinion/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/opinion/111632143416210.xml&coll=3

Typical for this paper, and further explanation of why this article: http://www.al.com/opinion/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1116149138148900.xml&coll=3
was so uncharacteristic...unless Browder's forthcoming conclusions are that Dems need to be more like Repubs.

[cestpaspossible]

1. I wish I'd realized before I started reading the Browder article

that he wasn't going to offer any suggestions till next week. As far as his description of the 'problem' -

Racism continues to be an impor tant force in contemporary Southern life. However, this factor no longer dominates as the perverse explanation of Southern politics or as the singular basis of Southern strategy.

Over time, as the South has accommodated inevitable change, Southern politics has shifted toward broader class considerations -- factors that sometimes mirror its historical racial system but just as often reflect contemporary social, religious and economic differences between black and white society.

Consequently, its white majority generally inclines toward the Republicans and its black minority aligns almost totally with the Democrats.

I see. Whites vote for Repubs, Blacks vote for Dems, but racism 'no longer dominates as the perverse explanation of Southern politics'... but rather 'broader class considerations'... uh-huh... that's why poor whites are voting Democratic in the South in such great numbers... :eyes:

[misanthrope]

3. I saw that, too...

...That's why his essay is starting to sound familiar. Down here, we've all heard, "if Democrats would just back off from the gay marriage issue, let us criminalize abortion, stay away from gun control, stop giving money to people in need, stop being concerned with civil liberties and social inequity, and continue to let Christianity dominate everything, then they could get some votes. Just stop meddling."

[firefox]

2. Gotta keep that fantasy world alive

The article ends with "People in Georgia and Latvia know it; people in Poland and Ukraine know it; people know it throughout the world. Americans aren't the world's pariahs. We're the world's best friend."

I will believe that when the Mobile Register does a ten-part series on the use and dangers of US depleted uranium.

[misanthrope]

4. Yeah, he's popular...

...just ask the legions who took to the global streets when he went to war.