Politics
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Obama Team Launches Initiative to Attract Young Voters
Susan Page of USA Today is reporting that President Obama’s re-election campaign launches an initiative this week aimed at rekindling the connection with younger voters that helped fuel his 2008 campaign. The outreach effort, called Greater Together, will tap Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites and target students on colleges and universities in key…
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Your Take: Is Public Transit a Civil Right?
At 5:30 a.m. each workday, when Natasha Walker, 22, gets deposited at a bus stop on her side of Little Rock, Ark., she begins her 60-minute wait for the bus that ferries her to a day care worker’s job on the other side of town. “I used to drive her there because I didn’t want…
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Pat Buchanan's White-Power Obsession
Not only is Patrick Buchanan predicting the death of America as a superpower, but he is blaming it singularly on a “[President Barack] Obama rainbow coalition of peoples of color.” The ascendance of the First Black Family to the White House has driven race-crazed Buchanan over the edge. It was not much of a trip.…
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VIDEO: Cain's Unorthodox Campaign Ad
In the most bizarre presidential campaign video ever, the Herman Cain campaign released an online ad on Oct. 19 that features the GOP candidate’s chief of staff, Mark Block, encouraging viewers to vote for the former pizza executive. “We have run a campaign like no one has ever seen,” Block says, according to Business Insider.…
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Rep. Clyburn: Obama Will Win Re-Election
Rep. James Clyburn has seen a lot change in his 71 years — in his native South Carolina and the country. The son of “an activist fundamentalist minister and an independent civic-minded beautician,” as he describes them in his official bio, is the assistant Democratic leader in the 112th Congress and No. 3 Democrat in…
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Cain's Not the First Self-Loathing Black
Black Snob editor Danielle Belton challenges a recent opinion piece by Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. that questions whether Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is embarrassed to be black. She says that the nation’s evolving racial strictures have caused most blacks to experience some form of self-loathing at one point or another in their…
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Cain Tops Field Again in Nevada GOP Straw Poll
The Washington Times is reporting that the good news keeps coming for Herman Cain, who won the Western Republican Leadership Conference straw poll in Nevada on Friday, edging out Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich and leaving Rick Perry in a distant fifth place: Mr. Cain, whose longshot campaign got a major boost by winning a…
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VIDEO: First Lady Tweets for Military Families
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the first lady sent out her first solo tweet on Wednesday before the first pitch was thrown at Game 1 of the World Series. What did she tweet? A message about her Joining Forces agenda, of course! “I did it!” she said, raising her hands in the air…
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What Happened to Juan Williams?
This is a painful story to write because I’ve considered Juan Williams a friend since we covered Jesse Jackson’s first presidential campaign back in 1984, when Juan was with the Washington Post and I was with Time magazine. We attended the same Episcopal church in Washington before I moved to Richmond, Va., a few years…
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Qaddafi Dead: One More Success for Obama
Just like the widely hailed death of Osama bin Laden in May or the more recent — and more controversial — death of Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki at the hands of the U.S. military, the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi at the end of an eight-month fight between loyalists and NATO-backed rebels was accompanied…