Obama is our first President of a traditionally underrepresented ethnic group.  His charisma and cross-racial appeal made his candidacy ring a clarion bell for hope.  It was a genuine opportunity to "forget what is behind" and move forward to Martin Luther King's "Dream". 

However, Obama's policies and his true identity are killing that dream.  From unprecedented over spending on a "stimulus", to the takeover of car companies; from the nomination of a racist, radical pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice to the attempt to take over our nation's medical care; this President has squandered the hope that elected him.

Tom Sowell is right in his most recent column.  Sowell's use of the word "disaster" is an understatement. http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/07/28/disaster_in_the_making

The union group
The feminist group
The black group
The hispanic group
The gay group
The environmental group
The animal rights group
The anti-war group, etc., etc., etc.

Each of these groups demanded a seat at the Party table and the Democrats obliged.  They not only gave lip service to each group's cause - they even embraced and applauded each group's cause. 

The Hillary/Obama debacle has introduced another group.  This group has never been embraced or applauded.  In fact, this group has never even been acknowledged until this primary.  This group?

The racist group. 

There are many Democrats who refuse to vote for a black candidate.  They are withholding Obama's nomination from him because he is black.  If Hillary wins the nomination, the racist group will quietly show the black group to the back door of the modern, racist, Democratic Party.

I scoff, gag, wretch at the notion that Bush's is a "failed" presidency. After I have completed my esophageal spasms, I always come back to one question:

Would I rather have had John Kerry? Al Gore? The very thought makes me scoff, gag, wretch...