Are you with us? Are you the right color?

Sometimes the differences between the two parties are illustrated in the smallest things. Last week, Susan Sheybani was recorded wondering aloud "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"

This weekend Dick Cheney's staff continued to write the republican story of us vs. them. In the first, The Arizona Star says that Cheny's staff is doing racial profiling on reporters:

President Bush's re-election campaign insisted on knowing the race of an Arizona Daily Star journalist assigned to photograph Vice President Dick Cheney.

Next, cheny's staff made a couple of democratic attendees at a Cheney speech sign pledges that they support Bush before being issued tickets to the event.

To be fair, there may be stories behind the stories. Still, democrats, as a general rule, don't appear in stories like these. That's because, in general, those kinds of actions are widely considered to be un-democratic.

Personally, I hope Cheney just keeps on being his scowling, paranoid self.He is literally shoveling votes to Kerry.