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Say what you like about America’s new Prince Andrei, “Mad Men’s” Don Draper, but he knows right from wrong. He chooses wrong because it is fun, because it burns through the mediocrity, because he is still a young man, but he knows.

What a difference in America since the caps went on backward. James Taranto’s description in The Wall Street Journal (“Call them racists”) of the journalists who conspired to peg the Obama opposition as racist shows a broody lot that makes no distinction. Like Pirandello’s six actors in search of an author, this group, more than six, appears to be in search of a police state. Obama is not their man. But it reveals something fairly ugly about race in America that these mainly white “journolists” â€" demagogues â€" would think that he would be. And Don Draper can write a clear and simple declarative sentence.

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