Listening to Obama’s victory speech in North Carolina one can get a good idea of what’s to come. The script will be a sort of messianic call to bipartisanship, post-politics, and a new election gentleness; while to evoke the facts of Obama’s own record of hyper-partisanship, his long-standing relationship with the serially racist Wright, a Dukakis/Mondale/Kerry political agenda, his own disturbing ex tempore comments on race (whether the Pennsylvania “cling” or ‘typical white person’ quips) is not merely taboo–but reflects the crassness—if not far worse—of any who would stoop so low.