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...trip took me several times across the wide, brown Missouri River, and it occurred to me that these issues of skin color and tribe have haunted these parts at least since Lewis and Clark paddled the liquid highway westward. But as I listened to voters, what became clear was that the Obama campaign is not the simple racial referendum some commentators have pictured. I heard several reasons why voters might be reluctant to support the guy, but race was rarely cited...
...knows," he said. "Clearly we're in the panic stage of unreasonable behavior." At the Connecticut offices of UBS, nervous colleagues passed around a joke about why the market was like a divorce but worse: "I've lost half my net worth, and I still have my wife." Off-color humor for off-color times...
...don’t,’” Apfelbaum said. “We know that infants as young as six months can discriminate between different races, yet children eventually come to the conclusion that using this principle to describe people based on skin color is inappropriate, even when it is helpful information.” The researchers based their study on the board game “Guess Who?” The players were presented with a set of pictures and asked questions to determine the randomly-chosen picture of the other player...
...frequently uses expressions that, he explains, he learned from “my black friend Danny,” such as “hating on me” and “got nothin’ but love for ya.” The only other person of color who shows up in the novel is Pat’s therapist, Cliff, whom Pat’s brother and friends call a “dot head.” When Pat reveals that he knows Cliff, however, his brother changes his behavior, and the incident is quickly forgotten...
...Barack Obama is. We are witnessing something remarkable here: Obama's race is receding as he becomes more familiar. His steadiness has trumped his skin color; he is being judged on the content of his character. But there is a real challenge - and opportunity - inherent in his success. Obama has taken some inspired risks in this campaign. His willingness to propose more governmental control of the health-care market is a prime example. But he has also been very cautious, a typical politician in many ways. The most obvious is in his resolute unwillingness to deliver bad news or make...