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So What If Cain Sat Out the Civil Rights Era?
There’s been no bigger Herman Cain skeptic than I — just read here, here, here, here or here. In my view, Cain — the gospel-singing, talk-radio-hosting, former Burger King exec and Kansas City Fed chair — is long on style and short on solutions. He’s heir to a long line of Arnold Schwarzenegger-esque politicians who mistakenly…
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Chris Christie's Cheap Shot at Obama
Ending weeks of speculation among Republicans unhappy with their field of presidential candidates and telling his New Jersey constituents, “Like it or not, you’re stuck with me,” Gov. Chris Christie announced Tuesday that he wouldn’t be getting in the 2012 presidential primary. But he couldn’t resist taking a parting shot — while standing safely on…
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Obama Should Go to Disneyland
With an aggressive Texas Gov. Rick Perry closing fast in his rearview mirror, an intransigent Congress as his legislative dance partner for the duration and approval ratings dipping below 40 percent for the first time ever, it’s clear that President Barack Obama needs to switch things up if he wants to find himself back in…
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They'll Miss Obama When He's Gone
The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan was probably right last week when she wrote that “nobody loves Obama” anymore. In last week’s Gallup poll, the president’s approval rating dropped to a George W. Bush-like 40 percent. While Obama probably still has at least a 50-50 chance of winning re-election next fall, if he does, it’ll…
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Waiting for the Black Ronald Reagan
Before Barack Obama was President Barack Obama, black Republicans had it pretty easy. No one really cared what former Rep. J.C. Watts thought about Afghanistan or what former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell thought about top marginal tax rates. All those guys had to do was offer themselves up as the buttoned-down alternative to…
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What's Herman Cain Got to Do With It?
John McWhorter is right about one thing. Herman Cain “is evidence of, of all things, progress.” McWhorter — iconoclast, The Root columnist and widely regarded author of the best-sellers Losing the Race and Winning the Race — argued this week in “Herman Cain and the Sadness of Black Folks” that the failure of black observers…
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Obama's Wrong About Congress and Libya
To put the hypocrisy of Republicans into context when it comes to Libya, it’s worth pointing out that two of the congressmen joining Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s suit to stop President Barack Obama’s prosecution of the ongoing NATO action in Libya’s civil war — North Carolina Reps. Walter Jones and Howard Coble — both backed…
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Seven Debate Questions for the GOP Candidates
Back on May 6, Fox News and the South Carolina Republican Party had particularly bad timing — they hosted the first 2012 presidential debate just four days after President Barack Obama announced to the nation that Navy SEALs had hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden. With news coverage almost completely devoted to the demise…
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Herman Cain Can't Save the GOP
The day after Herman Cain won the GOP’s first 2012 presidential debate, I recapped it thusly: “Just minutes after the debate ended, an on-air focus group run by Fox News pollster Frank Luntz declared, almost unanimously, that Cain, the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, was the debate’s winner. Their reaction: ‘He’s a problem solver.’ “ It…
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Why Cornel West Is Wrong About Obama
Don’t judge Dr. Cornel West’s most recent verbal assault on President Barack Obama against the backdrop of his endowed chair at Princeton, his frequent and perplexing appearances on popular talk shows, his Matrix cameo or his quixotic foray into rap. Don’t even judge him as the president’s highest-profile critic among the black intelligentsia — though…
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