People in Obama's campaign view moderates and moderate conservatives as misguided souls, fellow citizens and voters, who will soon be put gently on the path to equality and justice, not as cartoon opponents who must be trashed, ridiculed and put down at every available opportunity.

Its called being "politic".

of Bonobo, a type of monkey. So calling Obama "Obobo" was a macaca thing.

I'd say it was not a good joke in any event if at least two of us found distasteful and racist comparisons.

Growing up in Tampa, I got to see more than a few such colorful thunderstorms myself (we don't have quite as many tornadoes as Tornado Alley, of course, but we also don't have basements or cellars to shelter in, either!). There's nothing like the feeling you get when you look up and around and the entire sky is... sick.

that one that was like a mile wide?

I was just north of Dallas then.