NEW YORK TIMES COMMENTER ED FONTLEROY delivers a bracing dose of reality to Charles Blow’s fever-swamp conspiracy theories:

John Quincy Adam’s campaign called Andrew Jackson’s mother a prostitute. . . and American electoral history has a lot worse (and funnier) mudslinging acrimony in its annals than that. Then what happens is people go out and vote and some politicians get rejected by the electorate, like Mr. Obama just was. That’s America; that’s how it works. And, the only thing worse than living under our system of government is living under anything else.

So, Mr. Blow and others here can get off their shocked, appalled, and outraged moral high-horses and stop fantasizing about some made up racial and class war launched against Obama that is undermining all liberal American ideas just so you have a scape goat for presidential failure. His presidency lost last Tuesday. The majority of voters – regular, everyday “folks” – are happy about that. Now, keep calm and carry on.

Although, honestly, Blow’s nonsense about what Obama set out to do when elected is pretty much self-refuting. And what’s amusing is that not even the “progressive” commenters are buying the hope-and-change crap anymore.