Reply #43: "...a war about a war--and about culture and about religion and about race..."

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I don't know about the "culture" part of it, but Obama's attacked the plurality of this country on the last two: the gospel shows in South Carolina are cold-blooded, calculated playings of both the race and religion cards.

If what Sullivan means is that Obama's quelling the divisiveness of religion by slathering christianity far and wide to such a degree that one feels decidedly unwelcome in his big revival tent without it, then I guess he's got a point: agree or don't belong, hence no divisiveness.

Trying to remind the crowds in South Carolina that he's "one of them" is hardly a unifying move; it's precisely the opposite.

Then there's the McClurkin crap. That's just infuriating: playing up to a big constituency's inherent bigotry and then deflecting and minimalizing the whole thing is such clumsy politickin' and callousness that it makes one's head swim.

For all the hoopla about inclusiveness, he's driven an awful lot of wedges. The again, he DOES want to be like Lincoln...