you beat me to it...  I go to a progressive blog and the words "Lou Dobbs is right" jump out at me...  I threw up a little in my mouth to be honest...

And then I jumped to the conclusion that Lou Dobbs must have been saying something negative about Obama.  Let's face it, there is no love lost there...  I open the diary and voila...!  And the diarist agrees...  and voila again, Lou Dobbs becomes the sage voice of wisdom for 30 seconds or so...  

My word people...

Can we just lay some ground rules somewhere that state in plain bold type that the words "Lou Dobbs is right" belong no where on this or any other progressive forum?

I actually had to look for the Snark tag.

So.... this recommended diary is arguing that no Democrat can win the general election? Jiminy f'n christmas. What happened to this place?

Picking cotton is not a function that was wholly owned by blacks nor slaves.  

I myself grew up on a farm in Alabama, where my grandfather was a sharecropper (he never owned the land), and we were let out of school for 2 weeks in the fall to help pick that cotton.  And pick it, we did, and we also got paid by our grandfather, just like anyone else who helped him gather his crop, anywhere from 2.5 to 3.5 cents per pound.  In other words, an adult could pick cotton dragging a picksack and make 3 to 4 dollars at best per day.  Us kids made much less, but it was still helpful, because we were able to use the money to buy school supplies or shoes and clothing.

None of what Lou Dobbs said is relevant to your attempt to co-opt 'cotton pickin' as a rallying cry for your own brand of racism, and I absolutely resent it.