Ready to forgive and move on.

[Undercurrent]

At several points during the primary I was spittin' mad at Harold Ickes. Today? No. Let bygones be bygones.

First, it was important for me to remember:

"Ickes took part in Mississippi Freedom Summer, helping the state send a primarily black delegation to the National Convention in 1964. The next year, he lost a kidney when, doing civil rights work, he was beaten by a gang of white people in Louisiana. He has, since then, worked for a candidate in every Democratic primary, as well as in the Clinton White House."

Then what he recently said at the Time Warner Summit conference on the 2008 election:

"Ickes declared: "I abhor some of the remarks that Palin has made and some of the things that McCain should have said more about. I think there is some malice involved in that. But having said that, this is not that tough a campaign."

"You have to defend yourself and sometimes in a campaign you go overboard," he added. "But I do think that there has been an undercurrent of racial implications coming out on the Republican side that I do think is deplorable. But having said that, I think Obama is going to win this campaign hands down."

-----snips from an article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/13/ickes-undercurrent-of-rac_n_134342.html