Foes Use Obama’s Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him By Perry Bacon Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 29, 2007; A01 In his speeches and often on the Internet, the part of Sen. Barack Obama’s biography that gets the most attention is not his race but his connections to the Muslim world.
The radio show “This American Life” commemorates 20 years since the death of Harold Washington with an extremely interesting look back at Chicago’s first black mayor – and discusses the effect that Washington had on a young community organizer named Barack Obama. Turns out David Axelrod, Obama’s closest advisor, was also Harold Washington’s campaign chief.
He’s using the Bulls’ intro music as he takes the stage (he even has the Bulls’ announcer saying “Please welcome YOUR President of the United States of America…”). Yeah, I know, I’m a sucker for that Chicago rah-rah stuff. But still…Obama’s sounding better. Check it out.
It’s rather unusual for high-profile columnists at the same newspaper to engage in a public quarrel, but the NYT’s Paul Krugman and David Brooks have been subtly going at it for days. In a recent column about race and politics, Krugman noted the Republican Party’s use of the Southern Strategy to pit whites and blacks [...]
It seems like there should be cigarette smoke rising somewhere on this dark set. Late night TV in the 60′s used to feature intellectuals battling it out in the world of ideas with a super-serious host, smoking away as he moderated the Battle of Titans. I thought this stuff was really cool when I was [...]
I haven’t posted anything lately, so I’m saying hi. I haven’t felt the impulse to write to David Brooks lately, although I still read his column. So either he’s changing or I’m changing. It could be that I’m slowly returning to sanity, but when I think about it that seems like an even stranger fantasy [...]
If you didn’t check out that interview with Dr. Barnett Rubin (below) I posted a few weeks ago, you should check it out now. He mentions that Bush keeps talking about how dangerous it would be for nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of terrorists – yet the most likely place for that to [...]