It occurs to me that the President may well believe - and needs to - that the current opposition does not stem from racism- and for a very good reason: If a great deal of it *does* come in reaction to the color of his skin, what's he going to do about it? Far better to continue on as he is doing and hope that those people will eventually recognize the futility of wishing away his presidency. And his skin.

Tonight on Jim Lehrer's Newshour, they discussed it. One, a self-labeled libertarian, made the point that he doubts that racism has much to do with it, because most of those people screaming and shouting at those public meetings privately admit liking the President personally but say they are afraid of where our country is going.

Me, I tend to believe that there are people in this country who just cannot believe that we have a BLACK president. Kind of like I felt about dubya bush, maybe. I knew all along that Baby Bush couldn't help being what he was but I had a visceral reaction to him. They might say the same about President Barack Hussein Obama.

Remember back when Reagan (I believe) commented that it was "nice to see all those American names in the Win column (I am paraphrasing)?

To those afore-mentioned people, the President just doesn't sound American.