While not a big fan, the career of Senator Trent Lott was ended because he had the audacity to praise an aging Strom Thurmond at a retirement dinner. The career of Senator George Allen was ended because he uttered one word, macaca - and is rumored to have had a Confederate Flag in his room at college.

Yet, as the edited video below makes clear, the same ideology that demanded those results have nominated a man who praised and embraced a vile racist for twenty years because it worked to his political advantage back in Chicago. Barack Obama knew precisely what was going on in his church and others within Chicago's black community. He's praised such churches for their ability to "fire people up" in the past...