A week may be a long time in politics. But a year has not been enough for the Democratic president to meet the expectations of his candidacy, deal with the situation he inherited or defuse the barbed charges of his detractors.
Even after a year doing the best he can of a rotten situation he inherited, racism, ignorance and zenophobia still drive an amazingly large swath of [white] America. Not that it is surprising … to anyone that is African-American but it re-enforces what many of us already knew the US has a long, long road to go before it becomes a post-racial society. Furthermore, being the only truly universal society, we continue to squander our most valuable asset: our multiculturalism.
