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...Obama's background resonates because it proves his points. Like other young African-American politicians, from Congressmen Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee to Artur Davis of Alabama, Obama doesn't sound like a civil-rights-era black politician. His style is, as he puts it, "not accusing but challenging Americans to live up to the highest ideals." Some call that pandering to whites. But it can appeal to blacks too. "When he talks, you don't think about his color," says Eric Robinson, an African-American barber from Decatur, Ill., at an Obama rally in October...
...Southern Baptist Convention or any other fundamentalist group to say, Look, we're going to disagree on some issues, but there are lots of things we have in common, and I want to hear your point of view. He did not take a "listening tour" through rural Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; he simply ignored the South. When Whoopi Goldberg lewdly compared the President to a body part in her southern hemisphere, Kerry-who was in the audience-came onstage and said entertainers like Goldberg represented "the heart and soul of America." He did not criticize the mayor of San Francisco...
...recipe to build a national chain of cooking schools for kids featuring courses like Mind, Body and Belly. By the end of 2005, Martinez--who spent her life savings of $400,000 to open her first store just a year ago--will have 27 Viva the Chef franchises in Alabama, Florida and Pennsylvania...
Last Wednesday’s Red Sox comeback spurred Harvard’s largest outpouring of mass hysteria since Satire V started selling homophobic T-shirts. Hardcore Sox fans born and bred in places like Alabama, Seattle and Aix-en-Provence (aren’t they supposed to play soccer?) donned their newly-purchased Sox Gear and pretended to cause a fuss—Harvard style. That included crazy shit like running down the street in large groups (we’re talking five and six here), shouting stuff really loud on a school night, and that sin of sins...
Searching the Democratic National Committee’s website turned up only 10 results for the term. Of those results, most refer to comments by Republicans. Indeed, 3 of the 10 dealt with Alabama Governor Bob Riley’s comment that a “very liberal Supreme Court” is responsible for the recent “degeneration” of the United States. I, for one, wasn’t aware that the United States was degenerating, especially in the time of Lawrence v. Texas, and its court-ordered legalization of sexual relations between consenting adults...