The “insider” speculation has it that Pres. Obama will soon announce his plan to send an additional 34,000 troops to Afghanistan. Should that occur, I wonder if Chris Matthews and Jimmy Carter will quickly mount their perches to denounce peace advocates as “racists,” consistent with their earlier attacks on those who opposed Obama’s health care program. Will we soon be subjected to the proposition that “those who oppose war only resent having a black man as commander-in-chief”?

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