Sorry if this offends anyone, but it’s very poignant and a propos.

I was at the bank today.  There was a young African American couple behind me in line.  The TVs were set to CNN, and an image of Obama appeared on the screen.  The man said to his partner,

Yeah Obama!  But I gotta tell you, I can’t take the fags.  We should round ’em up and ship ’em back to San Francisco on that new bullet train we just got.

I told him, of course, that Obama opposed Proposition 8 because Obama believes that discrimination is never okay.  And I understand that those words could have been, and indeed have been, uttered by anyone of any race, color or creed.  But this served as a not-so-subtle reminder about Tuesday’s electoral reality.  And it’s a clear indicator that we have a lot of work to do.

At least HSR is popular.