Take it Away, Folks.
The above is from an e-mail making its way around the innanets. (We just got back from the gym and can’t muster the energy for even perfunctory indignation.)
The above is from an e-mail making its way around the innanets. (We just got back from the gym and can’t muster the energy for even perfunctory indignation.)
This morning Bill Richardson, a longtime friend of Bill Clinton who rushed to defend Hillary Clinton when she was attacked in the early Democratic debates, threw his endorsement behind Barack Obama. Richardson (or as MSNBC oddly referred to him in their subhead, “Hispanic Governor”) was being courted aggressively by both campaigns, though he told the Read More
(This was September 13, 2001, by the way.) Frank Schaeffer, the son of influential Christian conservative Francis Schaeffer, isn’t surprised. “When Senator Obama’s preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association,” he wrote in a column for the Huffington Post. “But when my late father — Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer — denounced America Read More
Obama’s big speech in Philadelphia zoomed in and out with brave deftness and surprising candor. He denounced Rev. Wright’s comments but not Rev. Wright. He talked about his white grandmother’s casual racism. He touched on America’s sad racial history (in great detail), but said that the country was not “irrevocably tied to it.” And maybe Read More
Barack Obama and Reverend Wright. Via Ben Smith: Barack Obama will give a major speech on “the larger issue of race in this campaign,” he told reporters in Monaca, PA just now. He was pressed there, as he has been at recent appearances, on statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. “I am going to Read More
We’ve had this conversation on here before sorta: people don’t think they can be sexists/misogynists because they don’t rape/beat women; people don’t think they’re classist because they don’t spit on their maids; people ain’t racist because they’ve never attended a cross-burning. Ta-Nehisi Coates goes to town on the idea that racism is a lingering problem Read More
Even though we usually agree with Keith Olbermann when he drops these bombs, they tend toward the long-winded/preachy. (10 minutes? Gotdamn.)
But Obama, being all about that bridge-building, delivered Senate speeches with this as his intro, so maybe we shouldn’t question his hip-hop bona fides too tough.
Oh, it’s about to get irreverent up in here. Hillary Clinton, eager to boost her ‘red phone’ credentials, has been citing a 1996 trip to the Balkans as part of her foreign policy experience. Also on that trip? Sheryl Crow and Walter Oakes Sinbad. Sinbad, a Barack Obama supporter, said to Mary Ann Akers of Read More