>>>>>>>>>That doesn't mean he agreed with the Rev.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Mike, this is 100% incorrect. I've got some links and some information - there's not a chance in Hades you''ll look at it, but I'll post it for others.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>You are not rational on this subject. A month into his presidency you declared it a failure. That told me all I needed to know.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>You're wrong, Mike. These guys proclaimed that he was a failure even before he was elected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Maybe so. As I remember it there was a brief idyll when it seemed he would unite us. Ha.
>>>>>
>>>>>And then you woke up? :-)
>>>>
>>>>It really has disappointed me. The polarization of the American public is not good for any of us. We are a seriously dysfunctional nation.
>>>>
>>>>This may seem dramatic but I am seriously thinking of leaving the country when Emily leaves for college a year from now. I don't like what the U.S. has turned into. It's an ugly country full of hatred. Our better days are behind us and we are on the downslope of empire. I'm not sure who will replace us as a world power -- things pretty much suck all over -- but we are not what we were. I am thinking of Vancouver, Toronto, New Zealand, and Scandinavia. Can you get by speaking English in Scandinavia or would I have to learn long unpronounceable words? ;-)
>>>
>>>McCarthyism
>>>Charles Coughlin
>>>FDR Japanese-American exclusion zones
>>>American Indian rituals and jail sentences
>>>The murder of Joseph Smith
>>>Nativists Know Nothing Party
>>>The burning of African American churches and schools in New Orleans and Tennessee
>>>Chinese Exclusion Act in California
>>>Wounded Knee
>>>Ku Klux Klan had 4 million members
>>>1928 Presidential Election and catholicism
>>>...
>>>and the list could go on and on...
>>>
>>>and you think we are divided now?
>>
>>Yes. Those were ugly events in our history but not signs of basic division. We are like two countries sharing one space.
>
>If you think anything in that paragraph is true you should have majored in history rather than journalism.

Which paragraph?