The authoritarian right sounds much more like Stalin than Jefferson.

So true. Anyone that knows Marxism easily recognizes that Obama - or virtually any American politician, let alone the rest of the populace - is no Marxist, socialist, etc. It is simply a right-wing, reactionary label of vilification that gets tossed around and is attached to America's Cold War history.

When people say Obama is a marxist, half of them say it because they're trying to link something negative to Obama, and hope it'll stick. They other half truly don't know what marxism is, and are the target of the first half.

Obama truly admired Lincoln, read "Team of Rivals" and sought to built his own team, recruiting people like Senator Clinton and (for a time) Bill Richardson.

Since the 1988 campaign, Jesse Jackson has attached himself to every hot-button issue in America. He suffered from over-exposure and became a cartoonish figure.

Black people have wished for a long time that he (and Sharpton) would sit down and shut up.

Maybe because they recognized that Clinton was more progressive?