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	<title><![CDATA[Obama and the Grumpy Old Men]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/obama-and-the-grumpy-old-_b_82365.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Seventy-eight year-old Rep. Charlie Rangel calls him <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/15/major-clinton-supporter-calls-obama-absolutely-stupid/">"stupid,"</a> BET mogul Robert Johnson, 62, <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/bet-chief-raps-obama-in-sc/">compares him to Sidney Poitier</a> in <em>Guess Who's Coming to Dinner</em> (not a good thing, intimates Johnson), Rep John Lewis, 68, calls him <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/15/politics/washingtonpost/main3714175.shtml">"no Martin Luther King Jr,"</a> and former ambassador Andrew Young, 76, insists that <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=breSVtVYSmo">"Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack."</a> Recent sexagenarian Bill himself has <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FUm7tkgFGYs">lit into him</a> ferociously half a dozen times this year. </p>

<p>These grumpy...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:48:00-04:00</date_published>
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