It's too bad that the first black president wasn't a conservative.
Not that there wouldn't have been charges of racism and some actual racism, too. But it would have finally dispelled the old myth about the racist Right and the tolerant Left.
As it is, many liberals who once complained about being labeled unpatriotic for their vituperative opposition to George W. Bush are suggesting that anyone who opposes the policies of President Obama is a racist.
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Former President Jimmy Carter has created a stir today by alleging that those protesting and opposing President Obama's health care bill -- by some measures, up to 55 percent of the country -- are doing so because they cannot accept the idea of a black man in the White House. As The New York Times put it:
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"The level of unemployment is unacceptably high. And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years." Who do you suppose said that? A Republican political operative? A Fox News political analyst? One of those Tea Partiers who assembled in many thousands in Washington on Sept. 12? No, it was Lawrence Summers, the director of President Obama's National Economic Council and, by common consent, one of the world's leading economists.
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Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure?
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Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure?
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Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure?
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Excerpts from the prepared text of the President's speech tonight to the nation and Congress have been released by the White House and if these are indicative of the tone and level of detail that will be displayed throughout the address, it will likely come across as just more of the same old rhetoric, evasion, double-talk, and straw-man tactics we've seen for months from Obama.
Here's is the excerpt in which Obama provides the specific details of his plan:
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Excerpts from the prepared text of the President's speech tonight to the nation and Congress have been released by the White House and if these are indicative of the tone and level of detail that will be displayed throughout the address, it will likely come across as just more of the same old rhetoric, evasion, double-talk, and straw-man tactics we've seen for months from Obama.
Here's is the excerpt in which Obama provides the specific details of his plan:
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Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Lately, Van Hollen has been bemoaning the “shadowy organizations” (aka 527 groups) that he claims are skirting campaign-finance laws and unfairly targeting Democratic candidates nationwide with “an unlimited amount of unaccountable money.”
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‘Like a rock star, but with substance’
The anticipation building through the afternoon and evening in the crowd of an estimated 75,000 at Invesco Field boiled over when Democratic nominee Barack Obama walked through the pillars on the makeshift stage.
By that time, night had fallen over the stadium, somehow adding an intimacy to what had seemed a cavernous pavilion in the Rocky Mountain twilight.
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