Publicity is what these folks want. They will keep doing it as long as you and others report it. Why not try ignoring the run of the mill comments from Bachmann, Buchanan, etc?

Ah, Buchanan. Remind me again: what did he do to earn TV commentator slots and our attention to his ignorant, racist comments?

I'd like to apologize to all those envious conservatives out there, because their white Anglo-Saxon God didn't make them Harvard Law material like Barack Obama.

George W. Bush never got anything that his daddy's name or money couldn't purchase. Barack Obama was the child of an immigrant father and an American woman of no particular means. Who, out of these two, actually got to his position on merit?

Jesus H. Christ. Prof. Tribe at Harvard Law called Obama "the most brilliant student he ever had." Obama's uber-Republican successor at Harvard Law Review (the first woman editor--wonder if Buchanan would call her "affirmative action" too) has said that he was a good editor. Obama EARNED everything he has. Buchanan just can't grasp that a black man can be more intelligent than he is.

The Republicans and their ilk like Pat Buchanan are really giving The Onion some serious competition on the news satire market.

I find it ironic that Buchanan is amongst those that deny the scientific concept of evolution--like many of his peers.Why Ironic?---sinply because he and his gang are going the way of the dinosaur.

I think it is shocking that MSNBC puts this racist on TV every day.

it's odd that he said that -- not because it isn't in line with his history, but because he was amongst the few repugs to muster any graciousness on TV the morning the award was announced

President Obama got an academic scholarship at Columbia and did not even list his race on his Harvard Law application. When is the media going to be fact checked?

GWB was the real Affirmative Action president because if his name was not Bush he would be pumping gas instead of being former POTUS.

I served on the Recruiting Committee of a law firm. When we reviewed the resume of an African American student who attended Harvard Law School who had a B+ average, some of the other lawyers said her grades were the product of affirmative action. I pointed out that most law schools, including Harvard, used blind grading of exams, especially for first year law students--a notion that the older partners found hard to grasp. The woman-who has gone on to a brilliant career-did not accept our offer. I am certain President Obama has faced the same analysis.