By Patrick J. BuchananIn his Philadelphia address on race, Sen. Obama identified as a root cause of white resentment affirmative action -- the punishing of white working- and middle-class folks for sins they did not commit:"Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race," said Barack. "As far as they're concerned, no Continue reading...

By Patrick J. BuchananOn reading George Bush's discourse to the New York Economic Club last week, Cicero's insight came to mind: "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."With Iraq entering its sixth year, the dollar sinking to peso levels, the economy careening into recession, and 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens roosting here, Bush alerted Continue reading...

By Patrick J. BuchananHow would he pull it off? I wondered.How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about "the Continue reading...

By Patrick J. BuchananWhen the assassination of John F. Kennedy horrified a nation, Black Muslim Minister Malcolm X declared it payback for America's violence in the world, a case of "chickens coming home to roost.""Being an old farm boy myself," said Malcolm, "chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad, they've always made me glad."The Rev. Jeremiah Wright surely had Continue reading...

By Patrick J. BuchananTo observe Democrats this week, savaging one of their heroines, is to understand why the party is unready to rule.Consider: At the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco, an unknown member of Congress was vaulted into history by being chosen the first woman ever to run on a national party ticket.Geraldine Ferraro became a household name. And though the Continue reading...