Republican Owned Supreme Court Set t0 Prohibit Indiana Dems from Voting:

States with Republican dominated legislatures are passing laws like the Indiana "fraud law," that is intended to keep Democratic voters from exercising their right to vote, and the Supreme Court, the same body that performed the coup in 2000 that put George W. Bush in the White House, believes it's perfectly okay to keep some voters out of the system as long as they are Democrats.

See Linda Greenhouse's story in today's New York Times.

A dose of Bush: "It's about past seven in the evening here so we're actually in different time lines." — George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., January 2001.

Are White Voters Still Afraid of Black Candidates?

Andrew Kohut, writing in today's New York Times, thinks so, and he's probably correct, especially the undereducated poor, who are afraid Blacks will take their jobs.

Everybody is rushing to find an explanation of how the pollsters could get it so wrong in New Hampshire. You'd think it was 1948 all over again, Harry Truman posing with his newspaper headline. Senator Obama is the Tiger Woods of politics, the Black man that every white person likes; but the numbers are still showing that plenty of undereducated whites with incomes below what is becoming the new poverty level, less than $50,000 per year, still have difficulty with having a Black man in power. These are the same folks who are most fearful that their jobs will be outsourced or given to Mexican immigrants, regardless of how irrational that fear may be, the same folks who ran to Richard Nixon in 1972.

More words of wisdom from The White House: "I want to thank the astronauts who are with us, the courageous spacial entrepreneurs who set such a wonderful example for the young of our country." — George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., January 2004.

Speaking of Illegal Immigrants:

Washington Post Staff Writer, N. C. Aizenman, presents "Two Views of 'Illegal'" immigrants in the Post today. Here's one:

"To call us illegal is to call us criminals," said Salvadoran-born Maria Isabel Rivas, 28, who trekked across the Arizona desert seven years ago to join her husbandi n Herndon. "But how can this be a crime? Our only crime is to come here and work like burros."

You probably already know the other one. It goes something like "We need you and want you; we just don't want to see you."