“So it only took until August of his first year for the ‘disagree with Obama and you’re racist’ approach to surface.”

Bird, that was fore-ordained. just prior to the financial meltdown, when the Obama candidacy was starting to lose steam, iirc more than one NY Times Op/Ed columnist declared that if [the least qualified candidate in the history of the country, pace, Nancy Ferraro] lost the election, it could only be because of racism.

btw, i’m not Dorothy Parker — i’m Eleanor Roosevelt.