Word: barack
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...campaign. "How the f___ am I losing? I'm a war hero!" he imagines McCain thinking. "He came this close to saying, 'He's black!' " Ted Alexandro gets a big laugh by harking back to white America's old fears of blacks moving onto their turf: "Not only is Barack Obama our first black President, but it's the end of white Presidents forever. Because you know what they...
...managed to turn the comedian's predicament itself into the joke. For months after Obama's Inauguration, the Late Show host trotted out a nerdy staff writer to read his latest attempts at coming up with Obama jokes - all of which turned out to be lamely repurposed Bush jokes. ("Barack Obama is so dumb, when he was governor of Texas, someone asked him what the capital of Texas is, and he said, 'Capital T.' ") Still, the edge that crept into Letterman's comedy during the Bush years has, if anything, only gotten sharper. (Yes, he was forced to apologize...
Ramesh Ponnuru makes the case that President Barack Obama's health-care plan might fail because it is filled with contradictions [Aug. 17]. It may not be perfect, but it is a program most Americans support. Six times since 1948, we have elected Presidents who were committed, at least on paper, to the principle of universal health care. I think we have failed our system, not the other way around. We send people to Washington to do our work. Sadly, they don't provide us with the results we want. Instead, lobbyists for health-related corporations get what they want...
...This is superficial diversity. If freshmen resemble their elders—four-fifths of whom voted for President Barack H. Obama—most lean left. Diverse backgrounds do not necessarily mean diverse perspectives. Unfortunately, the readings the FDO has assigned—specifically those by Beverly Tatum, president of Spelman College, Frank Wu, a professor at Howard University, and Felice Yeskel, co-founder of Class Action—reinforce this misconception. The authors offer different experiences but identical conclusions: Groups define individuals...
...years, his name has become synonymous with the liberal movement, and his face, with his thick white hair and ruddy cheeks, his sharp jaw and sharper tongue, has become a symbol of the American Left. Though born into uncommon privilege, Kennedy made a career of defending the downtrodden. President Barack H. Obama praised his voice as one that spoke for the “poor and powerless,” and his funeral Mass this weekend was attended not only by political bigwigs and members of the Kennedy clan, but also by 50,000 supporters from all walks of life...