White Supremacists for Obama

Never mind soccer moms; Nascar dads; the blue collar vote; the no-collar vote; or = latte-swilling, Prius driving, liberal elites. The hot demographic in the presidential campaign this year, apparently, is white supremacists.

The Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center, who monitor various supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan have concluded some 200,000 people in the US belong to such groups. Evidently, the leaders of this group think that Obama is going to win the election and when that hapens, whites will rise up in - what? - some sort of revolulion; a backlash against minorities that gives supremacists - or "nationalists" or "white activists" - a leg up in political control.

And we thought the Swift Boaters were bad.

The John Edwards Affair Affair

John Edwards, a career politician, had an affair. A horrible lapse of judgment certainly. Extremely painful for his family, no doubt. But spare me the hand-wringing of other politicians over this mess. His former presidential campaign manager David Bonoir, himself a former Michigan congressman, issued a statement after Edwards confessed when he said, "You can't lie in politics and expect to have people's confidence."

Shocked, he is. Shocked! I don't mean to be a cynic jumping on the politician-bashing bandwagon, but is anyone really surprised that yet another politician was caught doing something most of us would find repulsive. Really?

Actually, that is pretty cynical. Think I'll go rest.