The amazement was on their faces…

When I see that the AP presents this puffery as straight news, amazement is on my face too.

However, even though Obama gets over 90% of the black vote–not to ignore a racial component of the white vote–, I am not amazed by:

“Race doesn’t matter,” some began to chant. “Race doesn’t matter!”

It would have amazed me a few years ago, but I became a lot harder to amaze after I was amazed by what compassionate conservatism meant in practice.