Chris Matthews warns voters of 'war drums of racial division' at GOP Convention - VIDEO

Briano how can IC print Romney's speech it's a pack of lies and innuendos. I hope you will enjoy the next Obama four years.

Well the Republican Convention is over and Chris Matthews can rest now while the American people realize that President Obama will slow the seas from rising and save the Planet, but it is Mitt Romney who will save the American families.

@eiriamach - YOU ARE SOOO CORRECT! United we stand, divided we fall. The ONLY protection for the individual is in organization. Sadly as it becomes scarcer and deregulation rids them of any legal worries, corporations will feel free to takes us back to the sweat shops of the the past and send us home to tenaments surrounded by a polluted environment. The GOP has truly become the party of the "bridge to the past" again (Bob Dole - 1996.) Corporations will become people with rights and protections while real people will become the disenfranchised drones maintaining them. It is like they saw a post-apocaliptic movie and thought "How can we bring that to pass?" Maybe this election is for the soul of what our founding fathers created and somehow the Tea Party has taken the wrong side. The power of lies!

Ah the colorblind world of the left, Still waiting for IC article on Romneys speech, so far we have racial division, war on women, and not getting Eastwoods speech. Lets bet next week post dnc convention everything will be roses and daisies, Obama will be hope and changed renewed with a little I'll protect you from the evil consevatives.

white power and right wing politics are history,they just dont know it yet,the future is brown.

McNamara31 and TomS, another reason why middle-class America is vulnerable to the GOP is the loss of real competition for its influence. The labor unions once gave workers a group identification that fully reflected their interests, so political candidates had to listen to them. With the support of the unions, this nation achieved civil rights and Medicare, and supported human rights and anti-colonial movements, opposition to apartheid and to dictators abroad. The unions were called "the people's lobby" at the height of their membership and influence. Labor's most important achievements were the creation and political empowerment of the middle class, and then economic stability for working families. While you're lamenting deregulation, consider the Taft-Hartley Act (1947). As an early form of "deregulation," Taft Hartley speeded the decline of the labor movement. It weakened protections given to workers by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act and allowed states and employers to obstruct unionization of workplaces. Since 1947 we've had no law updating protections for workers amidst changes such as outsourcing to reduce labor costs, loss of pension funds and other benefits, deregulation of industries, and the demise of manufacturing. To rebuild the middle-class, we need collective action that impacts politics and economics. Traditionally, unions have been the paradigm, advocating better conditions for all workers, not only union members. Why else would the GOP be working so hard to end the power of the few remaining unions?

TomSwinford I agree with you once again however you and I know that the POG was a skillful political operation put together over many elections by Karl Rove. And it is indeed a brilliant strategy. The GOP get truly good church going evangelicals and catholics to vote against their own economic needs by focusing their vote purely on the issue of choice, even though the party is very un Christian in all other ares of their platform.

Win or lose in November the GOP has an existential problem going forward. In a diverse, multicultural society it is fundamentally a party of whites. Despite their Big Tent platitudes and highly visible but still token minority members, it remains largely exclusionary. What is astonishing to me is that there are many millions of middle class, working poor and very poor whites all across the country who are proud republicans even though republican administrations and republican congresses have historically done little for them - and today's GOP will do even less. They will vote for Romney because on social issues they're with the GOP (this election is not just about the economy). I will reverse the letters in GOP to POG, as in Party of God. This is the GOP problem. It is now under the management of fundamentalist and evangelical Christians and, of course, tea party populists, many of whom would happily see us become a theocracy. Because we are so polarized now the POG may pull off a win in November but it could be their last - unless there is a major change of direction back toward the center.

Touch a raw nerve handcock!!

Did I touch a raw nerve handcock FYI Dumbo David Koch has come out in favour of gay rights and higher taxes for the rich, at least some one on the fascist right is getting the message.

Both parties are doing it. So what else is new?

"In the aftermath of 1929 regulations were put in place that worked very well until they were removed prior to the last crash. Right now the banks are bigger than ever; if not regulated, its not "if", its "when" the next crash will occur." Excellent post! The fractional reserve system should be greatly curtailed to prevent the next bubble.

Did I touch a nerve teabagger maybe you are in denial weed brain

Mind your own business you Australian windbag.

Chris Matthews telling it as it is the middle class white republican voters would rather give tax breaks to the rich and fund the life style of the rich. They the GOP middle class will stifle the well being of their own children and vote for the Koch brothers,it's beyond comprehension why they are so stupid. Remember when the Koch brothers and their ilk ask you to load their car boots with money they will be happy to pay you $5 an hour for the privilege.And beware! do not stumble as you will not be insured if you break a leg.You can then hobble away to your trailer park and they'll find someone else to load their Masserati's.