Barack Obama, Race, and the Message of Change
Anyone who is the least bit candid on this issue knows that race permeates many aspects of American society. Why wouldn't the race issue pervade the election of a black presidential nominee?
Anyone who is the least bit candid on this issue knows that race permeates many aspects of American society. Why wouldn't the race issue pervade the election of a black presidential nominee?
Gary Cohan | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Sexism cuts both ways; Hillary's continued presence in this campaign is, in and of itself, a manipulation of the very concept. If Hillary were a man, she would have been long gone.
Giles Slade | Posted 05.16.2008 | Entertainment
If the message from West Virginia muddied the waters of the 'race' for the democratic presidential nominee last week, the message Mississippians sent...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
This week featured the through-the-looking glass moment when Bill Clinton accused Barack Obama of having "played the race card on me," then denied saying it just a few hours later -- even though he'd said it on the radio. I know Toni Morrison called Clinton the first black president, but that's taking things too far. Joining the outrageous parade, John McCain said it's "very clear" that Hamas wants Obama to be president, and that he would be open to "tearing down" New Orleans' Katrina-devastated Lower 9th Ward. Not to be left out, Hillary Clinton vowed to "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel, and repeatedly claimed to have "received more votes" than "anyone else" -- which is absolutely true... if you "totally obliterate" her pledge to disavow Michigan and Florida.
Lawrence Alexander | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
Americans have always had a certain fondness for the likeable scoundrel. It is why so many were always so willing to forgive Bill Clinton.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
In an open memo which got almost no media play last December, Karl Rove spit out six things Obama should do to zap Clinton. Obama has followed the script to the letter.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
Let rival Clinton (or God forbid, hubby Bill) even breathe the R word about Obama and the screeches from the clinically obsessive Hate Hillary Clubbers are swift and loud.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
Hispanic community leader Adelfa Callejo, 84, said yesterday that Barack Obama would have trouble gaining Latino support because Black politicians hav...
Derek Shearer | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics
Kristol's concern for the Democratic Party is touching. Of course, it was just the boys having fun again at the expense of the first serious woman candidate for president.
Huffington Post | Posted 01.17.2008 | Media
Last night on "A Daily Show," Jon Stewart took the media to task for over-hyping "gloves off" politics. In particular, he blasted his one of his favo...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
King's legacy is a third-rail issue -- touch it and you die in Democratic politics. Clinton was seen as somehow "slighting" King, and so she had to pay the price.
Huff TV | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 01.15.2008 | Media
That's from Dick Morris on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" last night, shortly after holding up his Hillary Clinton DVD that "the FEC won't let us run it in ...
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics
Obama gives people too many outs to channel their racism as something else. Oh, it's not that he's black, it's that we don't like (insert phrase here).
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Martin Carnoy | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics