Okay, Barack. Now Show 'Em Your White Side. - washingtonpost.com "So it's official. Sen. Barack Obama is black enough. Now it's time for him to switch gears. Okay, maybe not Obama himself -- he does a good job of appearing to be above the political and racial fray, as his speech last week proved again -- but his supporters. They need to start pushing the idea of how white he is.
Yes, that's right: Barack Obama is as white as he is black. The one-drop rule is not a genetic law or a social fact; it is a construct of this country's racist imagination. For Pete's sake, he's a distant cousin of Dick Cheney's. We need to start stressing the idea that his universal appeal is partly due to his being white, like all the presidents before him."
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Obama says broader perspective shows 'this is not a crackpot church' -USATODAY.com "Obama says Rev. Wright has built 'one of the finest churches in Chicago:' In an interview due to air this morning on radio host Michael Smerconish's show in Philadelphia, Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama talks about Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the things Wright has said in the past about race and the nation that have sparked controversy."
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He's gotten his lead back, but its much smaller than before. Good thing this mess up happened in March and not October. Gallup Daily: Obama Edges Ahead of Clinton---------------------
Obama Has Financial Edge For Primary Endgame - WSJ.com "Barack Obama had three times as much money in the bank at the end of February as Hillary Clinton, putting the Illinois senator on a stronger financial footing heading into the last round of primaries and caucuses for the Democratic presidential nomination."
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Obama's promise of a new majority, and the question it prompts - International Herald Tribune "At the core of Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign is a promise that he can transcend the starkly red-and-blue politics of the last 15 years, end the partisan and ideological wars, and build a new governing majority. To achieve the change the country wants, he says, 'we need a leader who can finally move beyond the divisive politics of Washington and bring Democrats, independents and Republicans together to get things done.'"
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Conservative lawyer endorse Obama - UPI.com "Douglas Kmiec, a leading conservative Republican lawyer Sunday endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for U.S. president. Writing in Slate magazine, Kmiec, who served as constitutional legal counsel to former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, called Obama 'a person of integrity, intelligence and genuine good will.'"
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His awesome speech on Tuesday made preachers all over the country dust off the flash cards for their usual Easter Sunday sermon and switch things up a bit. Obama’s Talk Fuels Easter Sermons - New York Times
His awesome speech on Tuesday made preachers all over the country dust off the flash cards for their usual Easter Sunday sermon and switch things up a bit. Obama’s Talk Fuels Easter Sermons - New York Times
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When Barry Became Barack Newsweek.com "Barry Obama decided that he didn't like his nickname. A few of his friends at Occidental College had already begun to call him Barack (his formal name), and he'd come to prefer that. The way his half sister, Maya, remembers it, Obama returned home at Christmas in 1980, and there he told his mother and grandparents: no more Barry. Obama recalls it slightly differently, but in the same basic time frame. He believes he told his mom he wanted to be called Barack when she visited him in New York the following summer."
