Feb 22
Allrighty, Holder - you want a “Frank Conversation about race?” You got it. How come since I am part Indian do I have to answer for the sins of my white ancestors? How come only if you have some black ancestor are you exempted from being counted as “white?” How come I am more Indian than Barack Obama is black, and yet he is counted as fully black? How come in my years of teaching I constantly heard that behaving with decorum and achieving were “Acting white?” Why do you have to be an und
Feb 22
Obama wasn’t kidding when he slipped and told Joe the Plumber that he wanted to “spread the wealth around. ” Those who fooled themselves in thinking Obama was a moderate, even as The Great Redistributionist was promising “fundamental” change to our country, will get to help pay the bill. David Harsanyi writes in the Denver Post: Given that most of you will be paying your neighbors’ mortgages soon, it only seems prudent that we start thinking in bolder terms. And by “thinking in bolder
Feb 22
Barack Obama this week put in a call to Univision Radio’s Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo to let him know he’s hard at work fixing the immigration mess. I’m not going to bother you with details (you can read the full transcript here) but the highlights of the show were definitely the first and last 5 seconds: 1:48 P.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: Hello. PIOLIN: Hello. THE PRESIDENT: Who am I speaking with? PIOLIN: Piolín. THE PRESIDENT: Piolín, my friend, this is President Barack
Feb 22
Ben Smith passes along this tidbit from Alabama: Another local resident asked [Alabama Senator Richard] Shelby if there was any truth to a rumor that appeared during the presidential campaign concerning Obama’s U.S. citizenship, or lack thereof. “Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate,” Shelby said. “You have to be born in America to be president.” Is Shelby really trying to stoke the fires of Obama Derangement Syndrome
Feb 22
(CNN) — Though they support some federal action to help their states recover from the recession, several Republican governors said Sunday they plan to turn down a portion of what’s offered in the stimulus bill that President Barack Obama signed last week. “If we were to take the unemployment reform package that they have, it would cause us to raise taxes on employment when the money runs out — and the money will run out in a couple of years,” Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told CNN’s “State of