Wow. Observant gentleman, that Booker.

If only Al Sharpton was running for President instead of Obama, eh?

The far right might actually not look racist.

You have to wonder why the Rev Al and the Rev Jeremiah have an affinity to Democrats?

As a commenter on the cross post said Blacks made a big mistake when they chose WEB DuBois over Booker T. Washington.

BTW alphie - Rs were the original anti-slavery party.

Southern Democrats split from the Union to start the Civil War. Northern Copperhead Democrats wanted to make peace with the South and Southern Democrats supported Jim Crow.

So Wright preaching reverse Jim Crow is nothing new for the Democrats. Same policy different skin color.

Times change, M.

Up until very recently, the Republicans were for avoiding fuzzy-headed nation building exercises and large federal budget deficits, too.

Now it's full steam ahead on the spendin' and killin' foreigners for the Rs.

So alphie, you're saying that Booker T. Washington was a racist?

Alphie,

It is just a revival of the post WW2 model. Which was bi-partisan.

Of course you are right. I used to be a JFK Democrat:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy

Evidently the current crop of Ds no longer has faith in the extension of liberty. That is too bad.

Of course this conversation has been going on since the founding. Right now the extenders of liberty have the upper hand.

I like the extension of liberty idea because it means we don't have to make nice with as many dictators. Something the detractors of American foreign policy have always complained about.