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What's Good For The Goose…

March 20, 2008

When Barack Obama gave his speech about race and racism the other day, he more or less fessed up to one thing…that he was not being honest when he said he had never heard Rev. Jeremiah Wright make racist, hate-filled, anti-american statements. Here's Obama Version 1 versus Obama Version 2:
VERSION 1 (the evasion):
"The statements that [...]

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Martin Luther King, 1929-1968

January 22, 2008

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’… I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged [...]

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The Race Card

January 14, 2008

Surprise, surprise. I guess I should have seen this coming, but I didn't. I keep hoping we have grown past all this stuff, but we haven't. Here we are approaching the South Carolina primary, the first with a significant percentage of black voters (50% of 2004 S.C. primary voters were black), and suddenly, out of [...]

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Al, Jesse, and the Jena Six

September 23, 2007

For anyone who isn't familiar with the story of the teen racial problems in the small southern town of Jena, Louisiana, there is a pretty good overview of the smarmy tale here
There is a lot to sort out amid all the conflicting stories being thrown out by the teenagers on both sides of the Jena [...]

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