Obdicut, don’t fall asleep. These constant attempts to cast President Obama as “other” are racist. No form of racism is safe.

And, calling people “un-American” harkens back to some of our darkest days, in which people were punished for their ideas. We’re only a few years from institutional, legal racism in America, from a time when blacks and Jews weren’t allowed to participate fully in American life, from a time when people suspected of any ties at all to Communism were vilified.

When McCain picked Sarah Palin for VP, it was akin to opening Pandora’s box: America’s dark side has just come flying out and now it’s taken a position in the mainstream.

The fact that Romney, whom I’d previously considered a rational, moderate person, has pandered to the far Right is truly frightening.