True enough, Doug, you've got a flawed electoral,system. So have we, just flawed in a different way.
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So far as the slide show accompanying Dolores Keane singing in that link I gave, I don't think it in any way implies that all, or even many, Republicans are Klansmen. It seems to me that a truer way of reading it is as reminding us that hatred of people we disagree with is a terrible thing, and it can lead to even more terrible things, and that the target of that hatred in this case is a decent man, and one who should be treated with respect, even by people who disagree with him.

Which is after all what McCain himself reminded his supporters a few days ago, when he became visibly alarmed at the hatred that was being stoked up. And I see that Sarah Palin as well has now spoken out against the hate phone calls that are being made targetting Obama, by those who McCain is surely ashamed to have as supporting him.

And as I pointed out in that other thread, anyone who doesn't like the pictures should maybe just turn them off and listen to Dolores singing "Let it Be", the way it deserves to be sung.