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ext_3190 ([identity profile] primroseburrows.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] primroseburrows 2010-01-20 01:04 am (UTC)

I could bloviate on numerous examples of equally challenging hurdles other administrations have faced, but will offer up just two words: Civil War.

First of all, I have never heard the word 'bloviate' before, but I love it. :)

Yeah, I'll give you the Civil War. And there's even some of the States' Rights stuff still causing trouble today.

As it does me, though likely for different reasons.

Indeed. :D But we're probably about the same level of pissed off, only in opposite directions.

And to this you ascribe as excuse the easiest, most knee-jerk, simple-minded, arrogant, cop-out answer ever. *headdesk headdesk headdesk*

Honest to God, it's been exactly the opposite. I've railed against this possibility for months, saying exactly what you're saying--it can't be racist, that's such a knee-jerk response and I do not do knee-jerk. Seriously, I've been screaming that people who think there's a racist bent to the uberpartisanship politics are nuts. I'm not usually an Occam's Razor type of person. It's only after a lot of thought and pushing away a lot of denial that I've resigned myself to this conclusion. And I would LOVE to be proven wrong.

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