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Eugene Robinson on Blacks in the Obama Era: A Splintering Community
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyAmid the holiday plenty, and with a black president in the White House as a powerful symbol of the gains that have been made, it's easy to avert our eyes from those who have been left behind. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, people expressed shock at the poverty they saw, and there was a serious discussion for maybe two weeks, then we moved on. It's not only whites who are uncaring; black Americans are turning away, too. A Pew survey found that nearly 4 in 10 black Americans no longer think of themselves as a single race. Puzzled by the attitude revealed in the poll and frustrated ...
Opinion: Why Are Voters Only 'Angry' When They're Tossing Dems Out?
By Bernie Goldberg - AOL News(Nov. 3) -- In the year after Barack Obama was elected president, Sam Tannenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review, came out with a book of his own. It was called "The Death of Conservatism." Tell me when you stop laughing. What's he going to call his next book, "The San Francisco Giants Will Never Win the World Series"? OK, I know it's a tad unfair to make fun, since conservatism looked dead as a doornail in the wake of Obama's election -- at least from where Tannenhaus was sitting in the New York Times building on the west side of Manhattan. But Tannenhaus isn't the only one who ...
GOP Wave Means Voters Are 'Spoiled Brats'?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI was on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Friday, and one of the many interesting topics we discussed was Eugene Robinson's Washington Post column, "The Spoiled-Brat American Electorate." If you haven't read it yet, here's an excerpt: "Voters appear to be so fed up with the Democrats that they're ready to toss them out in favor of the Republicans -- for whom, according to those same polls, the nation has even greater contempt. This isn't an "electoral wave," it's a temper tantrum. "... In the punditry business, it's considered bad form to question the essential wisdom of the American people. But at ...
Liberal Columnist Eugene Robinson Rethinks Health Care Positions
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWashington Post columnist Eugene Robinson seems like a nice guy, but as a columnist, he is almost reflexively liberal. That's why I was so surprised to read his column today. Based on a recent real-life experience, Robinson seems to have rethought the liberal position on nationalized health care.Here are a few key graphs:The last thing the surgeon said to me before they rolled me into the operating room was, "You know, if you and Obama had your way with health care, it wouldn't be me doing this operation. It would just be some guy." As one might expect, that realization seems to have had a ...
The Vice President to Nowhere
By David Knowles - Politics DailyI read the news today, Oh Boy:ST. PAUL--A series of disclosures about Gov. Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain's choice as running mate, called into question on Monday how thoroughly Mr. McCain had examined her background before putting her on the Republican presidential ticket. The first rule of picking a Vice President is to "do no harm." Well, consider this mission not accomplished. Like a hybrid echo of all the lousy picks and appointments from the Bush years (Harriet Miers, Michael Brown), Sarah Palin's was put forth in stunning, "Father Knows Best" fashion. What's clear now is that McCain ...
Eliot Spitzer, Take Heart: Eugene Robinson Got His Life Back Together
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsWhen I heard the news that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has likely thrown his political career away because he was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, I immediately thought of Eugene Robinson.Robinson, for those who have forgotten, is the former Atlanta Falcons safety who received an award for his "high moral character" from the Christian group Athletes in Action on the day before the Super Bowl, then went straight from the award ceremony to pick up a prostitute, unfortunately choosing a woman who was not actually a prostitute but ...
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