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Was Romney's NAACP Speech Almost Good?
(The Root) — Give Mitt Romney credit. On Wednesday in Houston, he addressed the NAACP’s 103rd annual convention, made his case and gave African-American voters — who will still undoubtedly remain solidly behind President Barack Obama — something to think about. Telling the members of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization that “support is asked…
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What Romney Shouldn't Tell the NAACP
(The Root) — No matter what Mitt Romney tells NAACP members Wednesday, nine out of 10 African Americans will still pull the lever for President Barack Obama in November. But that doesn’t mean the former Massachusetts governor’s address to the venerable civil rights organization at its 103rd annual convention in Houston isn’t a big deal.…
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What's Obama Done for Black People? Nothing
(The Root) — Rick Santorum once said that John F. Kennedy’s 1960 address on religious freedom made him want to “throw up.” But with the notable exception of the former senator and onetime GOP presidential contender, it would be tough finding a Catholic American who’d look back on the tenure of our first Catholic president…
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Artur Davis' Almost Principled Defection
(The Root) — If, as Jesse Jackson said a couple years back, “you can’t vote against health care and call yourself a black man,” then put me down in the almost-black category of former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who took a principled stand in 2010 as the only Congressional Black Caucus member who voted…
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Obama's Lesson From Cory Booker-gate
Make no mistake about it: Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker did his best on Meet the Press to throw President Barack Obama under the bus. Political pros don’t go on national TV and call their candidate “nauseating” by accident. And as a campaign surrogate who equated Obama’s attacks on businessman Mitt Romney’s business record with…
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Gay-Marriage Speech Obama Should Give
Of the many hollow critiques offered by President Barack Obama’s rivals, one of the hollowest is the snide charge — from opponents of same-sex marriage — that on the issue of same-sex marriage, “the president’s position, as it sits today, is the same position as Mitt Romney’s,” as Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said…
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NAACP Should Let Allen West Speak
Writing for the Hill, The Root contributing editor David Swerdlick says the NAACP is wrong to shut down the congressman over his recent accusations about communism. Instead, he argues, members should listen to West and challenge him where they disagree. As the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers reported last Friday, in the wake of West’s comments,…
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The Lazy Conservatism of Allen West
When pressed by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough — a former Republican member of Congress — to call out Florida Rep. Allen West’s accusation that “78 to 81” members of Congress were “members of the Communist Party,” the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan — a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan — couldn’t decide if West’s remarks were…
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Obama's Supreme Court Smackdown Explained
Considering all the outrage during the past week over President Barack Obama’s somewhat tart “pre-buttal” to the Supreme Court on the fate of the Affordable Care Act, you’d almost think the president had stepped to the mic last Monday and told the justices to take their forthcoming ruling on the individual mandate and “shove it.”…
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