Presidency

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Why Hillary's Folks Won't Quit

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Red States, Hillary Democrats, Democrats, Barack Obama, Presidency, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Politics News

It's not just Hillary and Bill's ego, bruised feelings, and over inflated political self importance, to appease her supporters that move Clinton to agree to keep her name in play -- it's fear of losing this election.

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Democrats Can Show Some Moral Decency by Not Kicking Edwards Under the Bus

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dan Fowler, Poverty, Barack Obama, Economic Democracy, Love Affairs, Democratic National Convention, John Edwards, Democrats, Presidency, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Edward's much needed and almost never heard populist message didn't mark him as a threat. The bare possibility that many Americans actually got his message about poverty and neglect made him a threat.

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Paris Hilton Notwithstanding, Paparazzi Candidates Do Turn off Voters

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oprah, Paris Hilton, Pew Research Center, Britney Spears, Presidency, Barack Obama. John Mccain, Celebrities, George Clooney, Bono, Barack Obama, Politics News

A whole lot of Americans are getting weary of seeing and hearing about Obama -- nearly half of independents said they saw too much of him.

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Clinton's Not a Racist, but There's a Reason Many Blacks Think He Is

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Black Democrats, White House, James Clybun, Barack Obama, Black Voters, Bill Clinton, Racism, Congressional Black Caucus, Democrats, Presidency, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton Black Community, Bill Clinton Black Voters, Politics News

As Bill stepped up his Hillary barnstorm, it marked him as a racial enemy who threatened to dash many blacks' dream of getting not an honorary, but a genuine African-American in the White House.

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Connerly's Anti Affirmative Action Measure Could be a Win-Win for McCain

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Institute, Ward Connerly, American Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Affirmative Action, Wedge Issues, Mitch McConnell, Democrats, Presidency, John McCain, Republicans, Politics News

McCain is betting that pummeling affirmative action will do far more good than bad for his campaign. It's a smart bet.

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The New Yorker Got it Right

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

Read More: New Yorker, Stereotypes, Barack Obama, Racism, Democrats, Presidency, New Yorker Cover Obamas, New Yorker Cartoonist, Obama Muslim Smear, Media News

The great danger is that the lies and maliciousness the Obama slander sites busily fan could or has had some resonance with some voters, especially the much fought-over independents.

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Early Clues Ignored That Obama Would Be McCain's Siamese Twin On the Big Ticket Issues

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Liberal Democrat, Senate, White House, Illinois State Legislator, Barack Obama, National Journal, Presidency, John McCain, Republicans, Home News

It's getting harder and harder to find much difference between presumed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain...

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Question for NARAL Pro Choice America: Please Explain Your Tortured Defense of Obama's Flop on Abortion Rights

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Relevant, Barack Obama, Naral, Late Term Abortions, Abortion Rights, Supreme Court, Conservative Republicans, Christian Fundamentalists, Presidency, Naral Pro-Choice America, Politics News

You have done an unconscionable political somersault to rationalize his back flip on abortion rights. Why is it so difficult for NARAL to publicly express disappointment with Obama?

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The Wesley Clark "Scandal:" Democrats Get Sucked Into the Same Old Republican Trap

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Col. Bud Day, November Election, Mccain, Wesley Clark, Obama, Presidency, Swift Boat, Barack Obama, Politics News

In the past couple of weeks Obama has reversed course on a number of issues in a centrist ploy to out-McCain McCain. Be careful, Barack, that and a few more episodes in the wuss-suitand you'll be waking up empty-handed November 5th.

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Nader Talks Black

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Ralph Nader, Black Voters, Racism, Democrats, Presidency, John McCain, White Voters, Politics News

Nader asked rhetorically "Is it because he wants to talk white" as to why Obama supposedly doesn't take hard stances on issues, but he didn't say how he thinks he should talk to avoid sounding white.

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Squealing on the Left At Obama's Back Flips

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Corporations, Move On. Org, Democrats, Huffignton Post, Presidency, John McCain, Alternet, Republicans, Barack Obama Moves Center, Beltawy Politics, Politics News

Some are disappointed with him because they had an inflated, starry-eyed hope that he was the man who would magically undue Bush's wreckage. This expectation was unfair to Obama.

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By Any Means Necessary

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Al Gore, 3 a.M., Swiftboating, Chicago, November, John Corzine, Contributors, Bush, Willie Horton, 2008, Richard Nixon, Reverend Wright, Pat Buchanan, Joseph Welch, Florida, John McCain, Karl Rove, Joe Mccarthy, Michael Bloomberg, Texas, 2000, Presidency, Machiavelli, Boss Tweed, Decency, Lee Atwater, Ross Perot, Campaign Funds, Skullduggery, Moralist, Realpolitik, $270 Million, Lyndon Johnson, Steve Forbes, Bring Us Together," Howard Beale, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, "Landslide Lyndon, Hypocrite, Politics News

Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. Truth is, if what's necessary to win in November is some outright cheating, I'd be all for that, too.

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Obama's Beat Up on Black Males Fans Old Stereotypes

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Black Fathers, Black Men, Conservatives, Barack Obama, Black Family, Presidency, Absentee Fathers. Absentee White Fathers, Absenteee Latino Fathers, Family Values, Absentee Asian Fathers, Politics News

Obama takes the worst of the worst behavior of some black men and publicly hurls that out as the warped standard of black America.

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Huckabee's Admonition Not to Demonize Obama Will Fall on Deaf Ears

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Kerry, White House, Barack Obama, Mike Dukakis, Mike Huckabee, Negative Campaigning, Gop, Democrats, Presidency, Swift Boat, John McCain, 527 Independent Expenditure Committees, Politics News

When things really heat up in the fall, the 527 committees will have a storehouse of privately funneled dollars to slam Obama on any and every big and petty issue they choose.

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The Greatest Unknown Scandal of Our Time

Allan Lichtman | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush, Scandal, Presidency, African Americans, Politics News

The 2000 presidential election was not decided by hanging chads, recounts, a flawed felon list, or intervention by the Supreme Court. It was decided b...

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The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed-Race

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racial Pride, White House, Barack Obama, Blacks, Racial Typecasting, Racial Stereotypes, Race, African-Americans, Presidency, Racial Profiling, Politics News

This debate continues to rage -- and the debate is even sillier when one considers that science has long since debunked the notion of a pure racial type.

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Obama Assassination Exhibit May Be a Hoax, But Fears of Assassination are Real

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Presidential Assassinations, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, George Bush, Democrats, Jfk, Assassination Exhibit, Presidency, Robert F. Kennedy, Home News

Hoax, cheap stunt, crank, crackpot, racist, and sick, were the apt terms tossed at so-called artist Yazmany Arboleda for his grotesquely named near ...

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Executive Privilege: Let Congress's Contempt Suit Proceed

Emily Berman and Aziz Huq | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Checks and Balances, Congress, Nobel Prize, Bush Executive Privilege, Watergate, Three Branches of Government, Congressional Oversight, Executive Power, Presidency, Politics News

The executive is assigned the tools to respond to danger -- which also makes it the branch that poses the greatest risk to our own liberties and the branch in greatest need of oversight.

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Clinton and RFK Deserve Better

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Primaries, Barack Obama, Democratic National Committee, Florida, Robert F Kennedy, Michigan, Presidency, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Her Kennedy remark, apology and clarification, won't mean much. It will only increase the drumbeat calls for her to withdraw. Clinton and RFK deserve better and neither will get it.

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The Answer: Wisdom in Washington

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Obama, Race, Clinton, Democrats, Presidency, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Politics News

The challenges on our nation's agenda are simply too large for the principles of change and wisdom to exclude the other and are why Obama and Clinton need to combine as a single ticket.

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Race (and West Virginia) Makes the Democrat's Obama Gamble Riskier than Ever

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: West Virginia, Barack Obama, Blacks, Racism, The Economy, George Bush, Democrats, Presidency, Students, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Blue Collar White Voters, Politics News

The overwhelming rejection of Obama by blue collar, rural, and non-college educated in West Virginia, all Democrats, is no longer cause for private worry for Obama but grave public fear.

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Superdelegates Must Tell Color of Change What it Can Do With its Silly Vote for Obama Petition

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dnc, Harry Reid, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Superdelegates, Opinion Polls, Howard Dean, Democratic Primaries, Presidency, Color of Change, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics News

The assumption that all blacks scream with one voice for Obama is foolish, arrogant, and racially myopic.

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Pennsylvania Outcome Won't Sway Superdelegates But Money Will

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pennsylvania Primary, Barack Obama, Superdelegates, Center for Responsive Politics, Democratic Primaries, Democrats, Campaign Cash, Presidency, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Convention, Politics News

Politics being politics, money and favoritism are making a mockery of the ideal of letting superdelegates decide a nominee purely on their conscience and the best interests of the party.

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The Biggest Popularity Contest: The Presidency

Donna Fish | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Popularity Contest, Post Feminism, Feminism, Presidency, Home News

http://nymag.com/news/features/46011/ This article recently published in New York Magazine called The Feminist Reawakening is all of course, about Hi...

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Ten Troubling Questions I Asked Obama to Answer before McCain Asks Them

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senate, White House, Exelon, Barack Obama, Gony Rezko, Iran, Iraq, Democrats, Presidency, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics News

Here are ten troubling questions for Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama that he'd be wise to answer coming from me. If he's the Democra...

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