Whenever cultural or political progress is made toward greater human rights and freedom, there is always a backlash mounted by greedy racists. In the wake of the Bush-Cheney disaster, progressives were bold enough to elect a president with a name which echoed two groups which are despised by the party of resentful, racist, greedy, jingoist children which currently goes by the misnomer of American conservativism. So this is the price we pay for electing a black man with a Muslim name.