Buchanan elaborated:

Disproportionately, African-American women are the ones having abortions, and it’s African-American unborn babies who are being destroyed at a disproportionate rate. And this whole, if you will, birth control and abortion movement goes back to a fairly shameful period in American history, back before World War II – the eugenics movement – which had dreadful slogans as ‘more from the fit and less from the unfit.’

Furthermore, since African-Americans were not treated as persons under the Constitution for a long period of history, Buchanan essentially makes the argument that any black person today should oppose abortion and not be in favor of taking away the right of personhood from another class of individuals: the unborn. Buchanan, clearly unlike the commentator he is debating, is not offended by the comments, but still thinks Santorum should speak out and defend himself.

Discussing the always volatile mix of race and abortion requires careful verbal maneuvering, which Buchanan seems to demonstrate that he is a bit more experienced at than Santorum.

Watch the clip below from MSNBC:

(h/t Talking Points Memo)

In 1998′s Deep Impact, Morgan Freeman’s President Tom Beck (Beck? Are you kidding me?) eases the world into the idea of total annihilation, by giant comet, with the help of in-the-tank MSNBC reporter Tea Leoni. The world doesn’t quite end, but a little piece of the comet does break off and wipes out the entire eastern seaboard with a tidal wave that Elijah Wood outruns on a dirtbike.

Flash forward 11 years, and you have 2012′s Danny Glover portraying President Tom Wilson leading the free world into that good night, as solar activity disrupts the Earth’s core. The dirtbike won’t save you this time:

Granted, both characters come off well, and do everything they can to save the world. Glover’s portrayal of Wilson is probably 2012′s dramatic high point, particularly his palpable grief over his departed wife. Freeman, along with 24′s Dennis Haysbert, has sometimes been credited with helping Americans get used to the idea of a black President.

If there’s any conclusion to be drawn from this, it’s that there’s just too small a sample from which to draw any conclusions. In the vast array of fiction, where anything is possible, fictional black Presidents barely outnumber real ones.