STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Joyce Susick, a Democrat who calls Pennsylvania — the state Hillary Rodham Clinton crowed would deliver her a win, and did because of all those “hard-working white Americans” — minced no words, exhibited not a hint of restraint when she told The Associated Press: “I don’t think our country is ready for a black president. A black man is never going to win Pennsylvania.”
Susick, by the way, ranks George Bush “among the worst presidents ever.”
But she is as firm in her pronouncements as she is when it comes to her vote. There are many who believe as she does, and they probably are right. They will never vote for a black man, even if he is the best candidate, even if the other guy in this case, Sen. John McCain, is a Bush clone and has voted 95 percent of the time with the Bush administration on a whole range of issues, many of them counter to her best interests — and those of millions of others.
Susick is representative of some voters, many of them Clinton backers,who deny race is at the root of their anti-Obama fervor. Instead they point to “inexperience,” or “youth,” or over-the-top, irrational anger that their candidate was bested by — in his words — the skinny black man with the funny name and big ears from the South side of Chicago. The man who had the audacity to take on, and beat, the fabled Clinton machine.
On the very day that skinny black guy made history by going over the top in delegates and popular vote to win the Democratic Party nomination for president, another man of dreams who inspired hope and urged us to dig deep for the better angels within ourselves was being targeted for assassination. Dreamers and those who hope don’t last very long on the in this world of ours. They fall victim to America’s favorite weapon of mass destruction — the gun.

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