Jim’s Reviews > We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy > Status Update
Jim
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It simply could not be that Hillary Clinton was correct when she asserted that a large group of Americans was endorsing a president because of bigotry. The implications-that systemic racism is still central to our politics....that the salt-of-the-earth Americans we lionize in our culture and politics are not so different from those same Americans who grin back at us in lynching photos..-are just too dark.
— Jun 22, 2026 08:55AM
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Jim
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I will speak for myself and say that before Obama's campaign began, the American presidency seemed out of reach. It existed so high in the firmament....that I never gave the prospect of a black president much thought. By the summer of 2008, it was clear that I'd made an error.
— Jun 14, 2026 06:56PM