It was out of context as far as you fail to see what message he intended to send. You are just being an assNot that Stu deserves it sometimes.
As far as the melting pot, to me melting pot requires "FUSSION" on inter-culture. Not a take over, not a side by side, not multicultural. What you described sounds like a multi cultural 'status quo.' It only lasts until one culture gets larger and strong enough to take over. It's happening all over the western world. I can think of only one place that's close to a melting pot; Singapore. Indian, Malay, Chinese, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist work together for the ultimate goal of "GETTING RICH," meanwhile its surrounding neighbors are fighting religious and ethnic low level wars.
And in my opinion, your observation on the 'right has gone far right' is flaw. This country have been steadily moving to the left. I considered myself as a democrat about 15 years ago - until the lovely Clintons started to mingle in private life - attempted to tell me what health care to obtain and so on.![]()