racism
Carter cries racism
The role of an elder statesman, free from the constraints of seeking political office, is to say the unsayable. When Jimmy Carter suggested that “an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man,” he was articulating a belief, commonly held in left wing circles, that his party would rather disown.
Obama picks Sotomayor
In the five days since she was nominated to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor’s life story has been reduced to a list of bullet points. It has been worn down by repetition to the essential elements of a political biography – humble origins, triumph over adversity – and lost much of its meaning in the process.
Election night in Chicago
Theodora Rose wept beneath her baseball cap. The mascara ran down her face as she pumped her fist in the air. “You have to have lived through what I’ve lived through to feel it,” she said.
