"This contradiction has always been at the heart of the Obama story. On the one hand there was the 2004 Democratic Convention speech proclaiming "only one America." And on the other hand there was the race-baiting of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Does this most powerful man on earth know himself well enough to resolve this contradiction and point the way to a genuinely post-racial America?
"The Sotomayor nomination suggests not. Throughout her career Judge Sotomayor has demonstrated a Hispanic chauvinism so extreme that it sometimes crosses into outright claims of racial supremacy, as in 2001 when she said in a lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, "a wise Latina woman . . . would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male." Shelby Steele, Sotomayor and the Politics of Race
What was America thinking, eh? And what sort of mischief might we expect? Obama's lack of character to crack? More class and race warfare from our Warm Fuzzy "Liberal" friends? A backlash from middle America?
Oh, hell, pass the People, would ya?!
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Erkel strikes again!
- pupista! (barking mad on the right)
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