[Iron Munro]

His preoccupation with race still comes through.

[Verginius Rufus]

A lot of it was just conventional blather that could have been produced by a computer program. He cribbed a few phrases from Lincoln for the benefit of future hagiographic historians wanting to harp on how much he is like Lincoln.

I had expected more blatant partisanship--maybe he had some of that but deleted it when he found out that George W. Bush would not be there. He played up to his base--minorities, women, gays. For white heterosexual males who aren't on the federal dole, his message was basically "you lost, I won."

It was sick to bring in a mention of the homosexual riot at the Stonewall bar on the birthday of Stonewall Jackson. That could have been accidental--Obama may not know who Stonewall Jackson was.