My idea of what Hell is like: Waking up everyday next to Joan Walsh.

Via Salon:

There are few ideas more specious than the notion that the election of President Obama marked the transition to a “post-racial” era in American history. So of course, wrong-way Bill Kristol believed that, as he told radio host Hugh Hewitt Monday night. But of course, that’s not all Kristol got wrong.

Kristol says that instead, Obama worsened race relations – and deliberately, for political gain. Here’s what he told an admiring Hewitt, who shares his point of view.

“President Obama and Eric Holder have done damage to race relations. I mean, I really am personally distressed about this. It’s one of the things I didn’t like President Obama when we elected him, and I was unhappy when he was reelected, and don’t like his policies at all. But the one thing I did think honestly is that maybe he would sort of… you know, improve race relations.” […]

Electing our first black president didn’t end racism, or racial tension in America. In fact, it focused a lot of African Americans on how many barriers to equality remain. That in turn has made some white people uncomfortable, because they hoped putting a black man in the Oval Office would mean the struggle was over – even if they didn’t vote for him, like Kristol.

It’s the height of white entitlement to blame Obama for worsening race relations. But I’d expect no less from Kristol, the very face of nepotism and privilege.