@Mrkim - "Today, no black in America can say their race would ever keep one from being able to achieve the office of prez., but with .... I think it could well be a while before we as a country are once more willing to try it again" - I agree that this is likely to be the case so I am not accusing you of rasism, but it is a sad fact that people will see the failures of the current administration as an excuse to not elect another non-white president when in reality those failures, either real or perceived, have nothing to do with the colour of Obama's skin but are a result of his party's policies. That would be like saying the failures of the Bush administration were because he was short or from Texas.

@DK: If Breivik had not killed anybody I would have been unaware of his manifesto and completely ignorant of his ideas so if he did what he did to make others aware of them he has achieved his goal, but I'm with Mrkim on this - as soon as he turned himself into a terrorist that manifesto and those ideas became, in my eyes, the demented justifications of a madman, meaning I will not read his manifesto and even if I did would not take it seriously.