That Would Be Because You Are Racist

Unbelievable.

Businesswoman Sheila Johnson, who is the owner of the Washington Mystics basketball team and an African-American, was imploring the crowd not to let voters get distracted by Obama's mixed race heritage or his unusual name when a man wearing a "Hillary" button called out from the crowd.

"Hussein! Hussein!" yelled the man, a reference to Obama's middle name. Many in the crowd leapt to their feet, shaking noisy tambourines at him and drowning him out.

The man, Igor Zhivotovksy from New York City, said later he is a strong Clinton backer who thinks she was cheated out of the nomination — and he doesn't like Obama.

"We just finished getting rid of a guy named Hussein in Iraq and why are we trying to elect someone with the same name?" said Zhivotovsky. "Everybody thinks if you're against Obama you're racist."

Yes, well, you are. And if you continue to treat elections like a popularity contest, and threaten to take your fucking ball home if you don't get your way, we'll get the country we deserve - one that prepares to crumble into the sea.

I'm not one to get nervous about these things, and mainly I'm disgusted by a traditional media deliberately finding every note of discord and blowing it up into something immense, but I have a sinking feeling in my stomach. While I don't totally subscribe to the idea that we have to have to have to attack McCain every five seconds, there was no Biden bounce, at least in the tracking polling, and combine it with media sabotage and this has a hint of 2004's Democratic convention, when there was no bounce at all. Mark Warner is fixing to piss me off tonight as well.

I don't scare easily. All I have to say is that Hillary had better give one hell of a speech tonight.