Obama can't save progressives. They'll save their agenda, if at all, with persistence and organizing. As it always was.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics
The squeals for Steele's hide by red faced GOP grousers have gotten so loud that even long defrocked GOP bloviator Newt Gingrich had to come to Steele's rescue.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
While hosting Bill Bennett's radio show Friday morning, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele appeared to agree with a caller that Pre...
Russ Baker | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.
Think Progress | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
Last month, the Hill reported that RNC chairman candidate Chip Saltsman sent out a Christmas greeting that contained a CD with the song "Barack the Ma...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
It's nice to see people being comfortable with who they are. Chip is inspiring Republicans around the country to stand up and say "We are white. We are racist. We are proud."
Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
In the apology, the RNC ripped Saltsman's song, calling it "tone-deaf, unacceptable, and offensive to every negro in the country."
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics
If Saltsman felt that he could issue the CD and get away with it, it's because too many other Republicans have made offensive racial slips or digs in the past with little or no consequence.
Peter Yarrow | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics
Taking a children's song and twisting it in such vulgar, mean-spirited way, is a slur to our entire country and our common agreement to move beyond racism.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics
***UPDATE*** 12/27 4:45PM Reaction on the right to Saltsman's distribution of a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" in his quest to become the new ch...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home
The more a fantasy Obama was, the more desirable. White America could project on him all its fantasies of curative black benevolence. Can Obama pull off his now becoming real?
David Roberts | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics