The recent racist comments of John Sununu aren’t so much shocking as is the fact that he is a co-chair of the Romney campaign.

Every campaign, every campaign season, candidates says this is “the most important election in which you’ll vote in your life time.” Sometimes we believe them and sometimes we are onto their hyperbole. But, for four years, I’ve tried to reason with my own sense of patriotism…that although racism (and sexism and all kinds of isms) exist in pockets scattered throughout our country, surely, certainly, the country as a whole speaks out against these sorts of things.

But, what began with Sarah Palin’s “palling around with terrorists” jabs, eventually erupted into the President’s first night in office when republicans gathered to hatch a plan to do anything they could to make him a one term president, even if it meant harming the least among us.

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