Stories tagged "race"

The Thrills of Cross-Country Car Race

Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “palling around with terrorists.” Obama is “not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.” “Who is the real Barack Obama?" “Terrorist!”

In the first presidential campaign involving an African American nominee of a major party, both candidates have agreed on this much: They would rather not dwell on the subject of race. But their allies have other ideas.

The 18 current Formula 1 Grand Prix event for the firmly Race Year 2009.

This election's going to be decided when people look at their bills and figure out who is most likely to help them with their financial condition. If the answer's Obama, nobody's going to care whether he's black, green, orange, purple, fuchsia or whatever

Election Tracker: CNN National Poll of Polls

I wrote the post below last night, just after Pollster.com had changed its rating of the prez race in Florida and Colorado from toss-up to leaning Obama, which gave the Dem ticket, for the first time I believe, a majority of the Electoral College among..

In a post-911 US, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers' day 40 years ago. Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as "not like us" is another potential appeal to racism.

Going silent on the topic of race can do more harm than good.

One of this season’s fallacies is that if Barack Obama is paying an electoral price for his skin tone, it must be because of racists. Not so — the evidence is that he is facing what scholars have dubbed “racism without racists.”