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By Michael Arceneaux - AOL News(Jan. 12) -- Conventional wisdom says I should be boiling over in sheer rage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had the audacity to say during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama was a light-skinned African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." To quote the great Snagglepuss, "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" Sen. Reid has been outed for echoing a familiar sentiment expressed throughout the last election. But how dare he express it in a way that sounds so ... quaint? I mean, that sort of political incorrectness just isn't something to be expected from ...
The Affirmative Case: David for Obama
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe idea behind the Affirmative Case was pretty simple. Rather than dwell on the negative aspects of the candidate that each of our writers wouldn't be supporting in this year's presidential election, Political Machine columnists were asked to hone in on the positive attributes of the person they endorse. This may seem like something of a counter-intuitive exercise for bloggers, who are predisposed, by nature, to follow their muckraking, partisan impulses. Indeed, if blogs serve a purpose in our society (a claim worthy of serious discussion) then it is to serve as a check on the spin that is ...
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