The shimmer has vanished. The soaring oratory, now more pedestrian. The moral high ground gone. The hopes of untold riches, shattered by the realization that what you’ve just pulled from the sifter is merely fool’s gold.

Cynics might say Barack Obama, cornered, his approval ratings having dropped 6 points in 3 days, only now raising his hand to say, “Wait, wait, I’m half-white too!” “I’m not a scary, radical, racist white-hater…” “I’m one of you…” Then proceeds to throw his own grandmother under the bus for her own racial offenses.

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I think it’s over.