The Smug Satisfaction of Getting It Right

Prominent Mexican historian Jean Meyer:

When in May I dared to write that the next president of the United States could well be Barack Obama, a sarcastic reader responded: "Obama never will be able to occupy the presidency of the United States. How is that a professor of your credentials could be so naive? This only means that you are ignorant of the reality of our neighbor to the north. Do you really think that discrimination has been overcome in that country? You don't realize that this is a situation created by the Republicans as the only way to win the next election?" Fidel Castro and Armando Hart made the same affirmation, although more crudely.