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Frank Schaeffer | Posted April 29, 2008 | Politics
No, it's not political. No, it's not about the black church. No, it's not about whether Obama should have "denounced" Rev. Wright, "thrown him under the bus," earlier or explained his religious connections better. It's not even about Clinton or the Republicans. And in the end it will have nothing...
Jane Smiley | Posted April 29, 2008 | Politics
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Blake Fleetwood | Posted April 29, 2008 | Media
Tune in today to the Latest Talking Head.
Obama and the media, particularly those who welcome his new low impact politics, could (and should) be applauding Rev. Wright's very public testing of one of the most celebrated and quintessentially American rights of this great country of ours: the freedom of...
Catherine Crier | Posted April 29, 2008 | Politics
Harken back to June, 1992. Bill Clinton was having trouble with Reagan democrats. Then Sister Souljah, an outspoken rapper and political activist, made some very incendiary comments in a Washington Post interview regarding the horrific LA riots. "If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week...
Manisha Sinha | Posted April 28, 2008 | Politics
Political pundits have likened Obama's oratory, its style and content, to that of Abraham Lincoln. Most recently, Gary Wills has compared Barack Obama's speech on race in America, "A More Perfect Union," with Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Cooper Union address. In fact, like most of Lincoln's great speeches, Obama's speech evokes...
Howard Gutman | Posted April 9, 2008 | Politics
Almost as soon as Barack Obama's speech on race in America ended and for days thereafter, the calls came flooding in. Most from Jews; most reacting with admiration and relief after hearing Senator Obama deliver "A More Perfect Union," discussing race, religion and Reverend Wright. But a couple mentioned a...
Sunil Garg | Posted April 1, 2008 | Politics
From graduate school I remember a simple framework that we learned to help categorize voters into two camps. First, there are people who vote for someone because they represent their position on a key issue like abortion, national defense, immigration or taxes. For that type of voter, their elected official...
Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted March 28, 2008 | Media
"We can't afford to be distracted," Obama bellowed in frustration recently to a standing ovation. "Every time somebody somewhere says something stupid -- that everybody gets up in arms -- and we forget about the war in Iraq and we forget about the economy."
Poor Barack Obama. The...
Steven Weber | Posted March 27, 2008 | Politics
Has anybody actually taken the time to watch Rev. Wright's much maligned sermon in its entirety? The one that the MSM's diced and sliced and handed out like amphetamine-laced communion to its maddeningly impressionable flock? It's there, right on that cyber-commons otherwise known as YouTube.
Yeah, there's all manner...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | March 26, 2008 01:40 PM
Ali Eteraz | Posted March 26, 2008 | Politics
For many years, the United States has been suffering from political nihilism -- disbelief in its institutions.
I have seen political nihilism in various countries around the world. It manifests itself as a form of futility, the feeling that one cannot recover from what is ailing the people.
Two common...
Slate | Christpher Hitchens | March 25, 2008 02:31 PM
Michael Smerconish | Posted March 25, 2008 | Politics
On Tuesday, this son of Eastern European stock drove into Center City to bear witness to a speech about race delivered by a candidate who described himself in his remarks as "the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas."
Rep. Patrick Murphy (D., Pa.),...
Henry Bean | Posted March 23, 2008 | Politics
Howard,
In these quisling replies to Obama's remarkable speech, in the evident terror from both the GOP and the Clinton campaign that they are up against a potentially great man who must, therefore, be destroyed, we encounter again, in a different form, the politics of hate. This is hate...
Pamela Gerloff | Posted March 23, 2008 | Politics
"Most men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and continue as if nothing happened." -- Winston Churchill
Churchill's words about the human propensity to ignore the truth that is right in front of us reminds me of the mainstream media's response to Senator Obama's speech...
Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted March 23, 2008 | Off The Bus
TANANARIVE DUE
What a difference a week makes.
The Friday before Good Friday, I began my weekend with a sick feeling in my stomach that returned every time I switched on the news. Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, was everywhere. The pastor's incendiary remarks...
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
NEW UPDATE BELOW As violence in Iraq continues -- clashes today left 11 dead and 19 injured -- President...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | April 30, 2008 04:41 PM