Who’s Voting and Who’s Lying?

Note: This long, long, long post started out to make a simple point about the AP/Yahoo poll released this weekend and – like a number of things I’ve done to the readers of this blog – turned into one of those items that will no doubt be used as evidence in my commitment hearings. I [...]

Straight Talk Suppress

Q. “Why did you say small town citizens are “bitter?” A. “You know, I’m a member of an oppressed minority group, and my dad ran out on me and my teenaged mom…”
If Senator Obama had answered like this, he would have been a) truthful and b) rightfully torched by the [...]

In a race to play the race card

A family is having a fine summer day at Valleyfair, Minnesota’s theme park extraordinaire, when the father witnesses his young daughter get groped and harassed. After trying to defend her, one of the young black men doing the harassing calls in more friends and the father is beaten. How dare he protect his daughter, you [...]

Wrong Race, But Right Race

One of the many interesting story lines of the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary is whether race and gender are net positives or negatives, politically speaking.
A Kentucky survey of likely Democratic primary voters published over the weekend added some interesting fuel for this debate. The poll found that both race and gender are net negatives, but [...]

Just Words, Just Black

I’ve seen a lot of red hot commentary on cable news, but this clip from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann about the Ferarro comments about Obama and racial politics may be the reddest, hottest.

As catharctic as this is for a weary Obamaniac, coverage like this is not a victory for Obama. [...]