with blogger political commentary tator and author keli goff was most recent book is inside of the g.q. candidate keli just following up on our conversation about religion yesterday or the day before rush limbaugh went off on this read about how the reason that president obama wants to get his deal with the republicans before august first is because that's the beginning of ramadan and it plays into and he and he didn't correct himself right in the you know it actually is the beginning of ramadan but he just like put it out there and he's got all these people listening and it is is religion and particularly islam becoming the new bigotry becoming the you know the superseding the the racial the is the religious divide superseding the racial. why did the only thing i would probably within your question is i don't know that it's becoming india bigotry i think that's nine eleven which was almost ten years ago it's now the old accepted bigotry i mean we just happen to notice that the man who's on death row for the attack post nine eleven hate attack and i've written about you know the rise i

to report that you know it has a lot to do with my new novel that you mentioned in the opening the g.q. candidate one of the things that i found which is about let me just say really quickly is about what happens to a group of friends when one of them decides to run for president by sheer coincidence the candidate governor luke hooper is handsome charismatic and black and he also happens to come from a multiracial family and his case his adoptive parents are jewish and the reason that that was interesting to me and important for me to to write about and why ended up talking about this issue of religion versus racial identity in terms of which is the greater obstacle on the campaign trail is because one of the things i was absolutely captivated by during the campaign and subsequent first term of president barack obama is that you have people that made my parents who never thought they'd live to see the day where we'd have an african-american president they lived through segregation in a let's roll the war stories that people like me are blessed to have not had to endure growing up and y

. >>> fashion lovers at g.q. think that the people of san francisco need to rethink their outfits.he city is number 20 on the men's magazine's worst dressed list. 20 is not that bad, but the species suggesting that people here wear the color gray and earth-tones too often, and g.q. says there's too much fleece being worn here and asked people to lay off the r.e.i. clothing. number one worst dressed boston and then l.a. manhattan known as the fashion capital of the country is number five. looking like we beat some of those cities. i was discussing this with my hairdresser, and he said the problem is people have no style around here, and i said people are going for comfort. i'm always going for comfort, and he said comfort is for home, and fashion is for outside, and i said no, i think comfort is also for outside. little disagreement there, but when you're looking a the the weather we are having, obviously we are looking at layers, and i don't blame you for wearing frees on a day like this. cloudy, gray, and foggy across much of the bay area it will take a long time for that to burn