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...ordinary" voters still mean white voters, angry white candidates can be "populists," but angry black candidates get tagged as "militants." Obama has no interest in trying to find out whether America is ready for an angry black man. He's more likely to try to send negative messages with humor, as he does in a new ad that mocks McCain's unfamiliarity with e-mail while featuring a Rubik's Cube, a prehistoric cell phone and other relics of 1982, the year of McCain's arrival in Congress. Campaign treasurer Martin Nesbitt says Obama is keenly aware of the pressure...
...McCracken plumbs, language itself breaks down. "Was I a mother?" she asks herself, and after the baby's death but before its birth, "Was I pregnant? There should be a different word for it, for someone who hasn't yet delivered a dead child." But McCracken's sense of humor doesn't fail; it merely turns an inky black. An intern assigned to check her cervix "rummaged around in the manner of an unhappy wife looking for a wedding ring in a garbage disposal." When McCracken and her husband leave the hospital after the disaster, a black cat crosses...
...offered green markers; non-affiliated onlookers got black ones. Some scrawled angry missives: "The banks are next"; "A symbol of greed and arrogance." Others were weirdly aphoristic: "Greed and ego it was"; "Learn to respect the dollar." Even amid the turmoil, some even mustered a bit of a gallows humor: "Hakuna Matata (It Means No Worries)." Raymond - who began work on the painting about 10 days ago - said he expected to collect some 300 signatures, and hoped to auction the final work on his website for more than...
...McCain camp - before its recent forays into the politics of umbrage and grievance - dismissed the ad furor as political correctness run amok. "Have a sense of humor," spokeswoman Nicole Wallace told me. For his part, Obama never accused McCain (or Biden, for that matter) of playing the race card. He wrote eloquently about race in his books, and he spoke eloquently about race during the Wright flap, but he's avoided the subject ever since the McCain campaign accused him of playing the race card, after he suggested that Republicans would try to remind voters that he doesn't look...
...games being played, a lot of friends being made,” said Brooks Lambert-Sluder, program manager of the Peer Advising Fellows Program. “It’s a circumstance everyone seems to be okay with. There’s a lot of good humor, and I’m sure the problem will be solved soon,” Faust said in an interview. Faust remained at the scene as freshmen headed out for the night, chatting with them past 1:30 a.m. At 1:33, as Hammonds was about to make an announcement, the lights...