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The 2008 primaries have been instructive. They've reminded us all of how sleazy and shallow the Clintons are. We've also learned that Geraldine Ferraro is either a bitter racist or suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. Maybe it's both.

What's most depressing to me is what I've learned about my immediate family. I usually don't talk about politics too much with my family because we share few core beliefs. Still, I was surprised to hear one college-educated family member refer to Barack Obama as a nigger, and two other family members suggest that Obama may be some sort of Islamist sleeper agent secretly planning to decimate our military and surrender to al-Quaeda and possibly Iran. He may also be Marxist. Of course, I was told we don't know enough about the guy to determine his real allegiances. All we really know, I gather, is that he doesn't wear an American flag lapel pin and that he's not white.

I wish I could say I was joking, but that's what was expressed to me. Sadly, these are views that aren't limited to my relatives south of the Mason-Dixon line. There's a strong, ill-informed segment of the population that apparently believes this sort of backwards nonsense.

What's wrong with my family?

What's wrong with our country?

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