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I was, as I said initially, impressed with the boldness, while dissing his policy prescriptions. Later, when I thought about it, I realized he was refusing to do what he told Imus to do, i.e. walk out. But I was quite taken aback by VDH’s reaction, calling Barry a vapid phony. Cobb, who is no Barry supporter, was so irritated he wrote VDH an open letter in protest. Now comes some more of VDH’s concerns and I see what upset him. Barry wants to expand the therapeutic curriculum of American schools to include more Harriet Tubmans, who Mr. B. already has heard about in second grade, fergawdsake, but nevermind U.S. Grant or Shiloh. If you were dazzled by the half-black man, who has run not as a half-black or any other racial man, suddenly addressing racism you might have missed these basic Lefty educational concerns. I did. I caught the indiscriminate attack on corporations and the silly remark about the government providing people good jobs (bureaucratic ones for party workers, sure, but no one else). The therapeutic stuff, however, got VDH where he lives. He’s a college professor who has long complained about the preminent position of this gripe history to the detriment of actually understanding history.