Be afraid! Be afraid! This time, it's Pat Buchanan who is pushing our buttons ...

No! I have not read the book, nor do I ever intend to! The reviews were enough and I certainly do not want my hard-earned pennies (no longer dollars) to support such a racist enterprise as the latest book (left) written by Pat Buchanan.

Sadly, I think that Mr. Buchanan is a smart and creative person who is capable of being a spokesman for peace and unity in this already too divisive world within which we live. His scare tactic is just what the Republicans were hoping for with their support of very restrictive immigration laws and the natural tendencies of people to be "afraid" of persons of a different color, religion or culture. (To his credit, Mr. Bush has separated himself from the rest of the Republicans on this issue and proposed reasonable legislation.)

Buchanan goes so far as to "threaten" Americans with a conspiracy on the part of the Mexican immigrants to "retake" the Pacific Southwest. What bunk!

Just reading the reviews online, I have never read such anti-Mexican and anti-darker skin (what it really boils down to) malarkey. Interestingly, if the English (and others) had been able to act on their own anti-Irish rhetoric in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, Mr. Buchanan would probably have been born in Dublin.

And my brother, Richard in Connecticut, and I would have been born in a brothel in Zambia.