Gen Y Speaks

In my previous post, Making The Case For Obama, I predicted that were he to lose by neferious tricks or dirty politics that it would alienate an entire generation from the Democratic party. Today Andrew Sullivan posted this letter from a reader:

I'll just put that out there. If Obama is done in by this whole Wright thing I am done with politics. I can't invest myself in something that is so sure to disappoint me time and time and time again. If the Democratic party decides that it can not risk nominating a great and decent African American man because his pastor is a scary African American man, it does not deserve power because it will have caved to what is worst about America. Racists on both sides of the divide will rejoice at having taking down the biggest threat to their belief system since Martin Luther King....and young people like myself will burrow deeper into to the holes we were in before Barack Obama dug us out.

The several instances of bad grammar aside, I just get the feeling that there are a lot of kids out there with exactly the same opinion.