I talked to a longtime friend of mine who is a registered independent. You know the kind that is like Bill O’Reilly. Although he actually believes that he is independent. He is a smart, free thinker and will weigh the issues and the man before he casts his vote. A very noble and smart position to have. He has an IQ of above 140, has a lovely wife and two beautiful girls and in the last ten years became a very active Catholic. We had a lot of fun debating the issues from time to time in this presidential election. He called me today very happy with the outcome. Then he said something that stopped me in my tracks. He said that had not John Kerry won the black vote by such a huge margin, George Bush would have won the popular vote by a landslide. I asked him if he thought that blacks were Americans? He said of course. Then I said what is your point? Well he said "80 % of all people in prison are black, they have five children with different women, and will always vote Democrat because of the entitlement programs. I said that sounds awfully racist to me. "No I'm not", he said. "I'm just being honest"