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While everyone is describing Obama as our first black President, Andrew Young's comments in your article on civil rights leaders' perspectives were closer to the truth [Jan. 26]. Young says, "He isn't just black; he's an Afro-Asian-Latin European. That means he's a global citizen and an all-American boy ... The fact that his father and grandfather on one side were black doesn't make him any more of a black President than his grandfather on the other side being white would make him a white President." Thank you, Mr. Young, for getting it right...
...hinted that he could call witnesses who might provide "political embarrassment to members of my party in Washington, D.C." At the end, he defiantly warned of "the dangerous precedent of removing me ... If it can happen to me, it can happen to any governor ... it can happen to any citizen." And then he left without taking questions...
Arnold Schwarzenegger may believe that he would be sitting in Barack Obama's chair in the Oval Office if only he had been born a U.S. citizen. Instead he runs California, which may be the nation's most populous state while being at the same time the one closest to economic ruin...
...American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009 should be required reading for every citizen from billionaires to the average person. It was issued by The Committee On Appropriations and is the road map for the $825 billion that the Congress and Administration intend to put into the U.S. economy to jumpstart the economy out of the recession...
...Inauguration, who cried their eyes out and cheered their lungs raw, are testimony to the man's sheer inspirational power. Reagan's movement was called a revolution, but this may be more than that - the beginning of a whole new era of Obama-inspired and Obama-led citizen involvement. During the transition, the Obama website called for supporters to hold community meetings to discuss their health-care priorities. A staggering 10,000 meetings purportedly were held; 5,000 sent written reports - more paper! - to the transition office. This is a new kind of politics, with the potential...