Political fire, far from rattling [Barack Obama], seems to bring out the best in him: The furor about his (admittedly ghastly) preacher prompted one of the most thoughtful speeches of the campaign. On the financial crisis his performance has been as assured as [John McCain]'s has been febrile. It is hard, too, nowadays to depict him as soft when it comes to dealing with America's enemies. Part of Obama's original appeal to the Democratic left was his keenness to get American troops out of Iraq; but since the primaries he has moved to the centre, pragmatically saying the troops will leave only when the conditions are right. In terms of painting a brighter future for America and the world, Obama has produced the more compelling and detailed portrait. He has campaigned with more style, int...
... blacks to blame all their problems on racism. So Obama's star quality will be useful to him as ...
Such, indeed, was the approach he took in March when news first broke of his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an outspoken clergyman in the black prophetic tradition who has denounced the continuing phenomenon of racism in the U.S. and who asserts that the song God Bless America should really be God damn America. Wright had brought [Barack Obama] to Christianity, officiated at Obama's wedding and baptized Obama's children: Once Wright hit the headlines, Obama was a prime candidate for guilt by association. Called to account for Wright's opinions, Obama said he disagreed with many of them but, while dissociating himself from the opinions, would not denounce the man. This reflected Obama's understanding of the sources of the anger of many black Americans, which he addressed in a ma...
... on some issues such as slavery and racism but was silent on his pro-abortion record. . Obama...
I really believe that she just always thought, 'This is mine! I'm Bill's wife, I'm white, and this is mine! . . . And then out of nowhere came, 'Hey, I'm [Barack Obama],' and she said, 'Oh, damn! Where did you come from? I'm white! I'm entitled! There's a black man stealing my show!' "She's not quitting," J.M. Bellows, a liberal blogger, wrote Friday on the Huffington Post website. "Instead, it's now clear that she's heading to the convention, where only chaos theory and the laws of raw politics apply."
... feel they have been targets of "reverse racism" by Obama. "If you're white you can't open your mo...
...(38) In March 2009, the Obama Administration reversed the decision of the Bush A... controversial 2001 Durban Declaration on "racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related int...
...11, 2001, President Barack Obama alluded to the controversy over the mosque -- and ... one that read, "The attack on Islam is racism." Opponents carried placards that read, "Stop Obam...
Every word will be twisted to make it about race," said Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a [John McCain] friend and adviser. When he and others confront Obama on issues such as national security and the economy, Graham said, it will have "nothing to do with him being an African-American. Obama adviser David Axelrod said the Democrat's campaign will be on high alert for code words or innuendo meant to play on voters' racial sentiments. "We're going to be aggressive about pushing back on anything that we feel is inappropriate or misleading," he said. The Texas Republican party recently cut ties with a vendor whose political buttons at a party convention included one saying: "If Obama is president ... will we still call it The White House?" Texas GOP spokesman Hans Klingler said, "we wil...
... it won't stand still for false charges of racism or for allegations merely aimed at preventing crit...
From the very beginning of the study of women candidates, the first analysis is that women must have certain androgynous qualities to run successfully," she says. "And if anyone has those qualities, it's [Hillary Clinton]. "Clinton isn't able to get traction on gender issues because I think they are not as widely perceived as important as race issues in America," [Kathleen Dolan] says. "Lots of people think that sex and gender issues are settled." "Goodness knows there will be a bunch of men lined up to run in 2012," she says. "I'm not sure there will be a bunch of women lined up to run."
... of treating sexism less seriously than racism toward rival Barack Obama. . "It's been deeply off...
... black - Obama confessed to struggling with racism in school, experimenting with drugs and having dif...
It's a very historic moment -- it's good for the world," he said on the eve of [Barack Obama]'s inauguration. He thinks Obama will take a more diplomatic approach to solving conflicts. "It fulfills Martin Luther (King Jr.)'s dream, mostly." In his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial, King famously said "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. "For me it's just that, for the first time in our history, we actually have a tangible example or deed to point to when we say to our youth, 'You can grow up to be anything' and have it be true," she said. "Until now, there have been all sorts institutional and racial barriers... not just for the black community but f...
... about their full potential because of racism, he said. "It will put pressure on some people to ...
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