Reply #36: Prejudice and bigotry take a back seat

[teknomanzer]

to an empty pocket book. In a strange way that is progress. Racial bigotry has been used to divide people of the lower classes who have had more in common culturally and economically with each other regardless of skin color than they share with the upper class. I guess that is not working now. People are looking to the black guy to get the country back on track.

I have to say that I do not envy Obama in the task that lies before him. There is a huge mess to clean up now - if he becomes president (and I believe he will - but let us stay vigilant just the same) there is the potential for a let down because we may not even know yet how screwed up everything really is. It is so much easier to destroy than it is to build.