Reply #88: I don't think Obama is being universally derided.

[UdoKier]

He's got his honeymoon period. A few people may be disappointed that he has started off in such a pro-Bush vein, but time will tell.

I must take issue with your falling for the republican use of token blacks as actually meaning something. Bush has put a lot of women and people of color in high positions, yes, but they are uniformly right-wing yes-men and women, and NOT representative of the communities they ostensibly "come from".

And as for overall hiring, Clinton did a much better job of hiring women and people of color than Bush has.

I do, however agree that the Democratic party is doing a pretty bad job of reaching out to the African-American community, and we should be thankful to George Bush for his extreme right-wing, kill-the-poor policies for the still 92% turnout for dems by African-Americans.

That having been said, the Democratic party has also done a horrible job in recent years off reaching out to white and other communities, and laying out issue that resonate with them.

They have lost touch with their populist roots, and at the same time, the GOP has learned how to mimic the style, while ramming through an actual agenda of pure plutocracy and imperialism.