Maggie's Farm

You have a nation filled with people who are worried about money, and worried about their kids' futures. Thus the frequently-observed temptation for pols and the MSM to distract the voters. Is this election about race and gender?

Race-baiting to the bottom

Chris Matthews Says “Chicago” Is Super-Secret GOP Racist Codeword

MSNBC: References To Golf Are Racist

Golf?

2012: Campus PC Goes National

Dog Whistle Politics?

Slate Accuses Ann Romney of Sexism

Knish gets it:

Their race card is as big as America now. It is America. There is no longer an America for them, just a collection of race cards that they shuffle and deal and shuffle again, playing solitaire with themselves until the economy goes down. In their America it is always 1963 in Birmingham. It will always be Birmingham, 1963, even for those who have never been to Birmingham and who did not even exist on this planet in 1963.