CNN interviews Dave Matthews,
political soothsayer:
I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's
already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here
as a kid... There's a good population of people in this country
that are terrified of the president only because he's black,
even if they don't say it. And I think a lot of them, behind
closed doors, do say it.
Maybe I'm paranoid about it, but I don't think someone who
disagreed as strongly as they do with Obama -- if it was
Clinton -- would have stood up and screamed at him during his
speech.
Can anbody old enough to remember the Clinton era -- and Dave
Matthews is, since I was listening to his CDs at the time -- take
seriously the idea that conservatives were less angry at Clinton
than Obama? Perhaps Matthews was stuck under the table and
dreaming.
