Isn't it interesting that back when Trent Lott made a comment about then Senator Strom Thurmond it was so explosive that he had to step down as speaker of the house. He said that we would have been a lot better off all these years if Strom had been elected in 1948.
http://articles.cnn.com/2002-12-09/politics/lott.comment_1_dixiecrat-party-lott-strom-thurmond?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICSAnd yet Obama's preacher and this case are about things happening in the present and they are practically ignored.