[grania]

The country's different now with just about everyone being fed up with Obama, even dems who aren't vocal about it. That's why I contend that what we need is an American Putin, someone who can get past the little stuff and create a vision most US citizens can believe in.

I'm philosophical and sad today. South Carolina, and to a great degree the rest of the US, was close to that kind of united moment because of disgust over the nine murders in a church. And what does the media do? Try to turn it into an argument about the confederate flag. That's a new level of disgusting manipulation by the media.

[kearnyirish2]

I agree that an “American Putin” is needed; at this point the best one can hope for is getting one as a governor. I’ve posted for a long time that this country was emptying of Americans rapidly, and that the 2050 projections of a white minority were absolutely bogus (probably based on 1950s birthrates). The fact is that I started having children over a dozen years ago, and out of twenty babies in a maternity ward two were white, two were black, one was Asian, and fifteen were Hispanic - and the hospital was in a “white” area. To get votes from those “replacement Americans”, a candidate could never be as patriotic as Putin.