Bird’s-Eye View

NPR’s Michel Martin, a former White House correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, calls out the Republicans for their double-speak regarding education and their attacks on Barack Obama for his supposed “elitist” attitude.
 Education, as John McCain says, is the civil rights issue of our time, but … :
It is so interesting to me that at the same […]

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Time Magazine’s Michael Grunwald uses Republican John McCain’s visit to Manheim Central as a basis to begin a discussion about how race is impacting the presidential campaign. Here’s how Grunwald starts his article:
On a swing through Pennsylvania last month, John McCain visited a Manheim Central High School football practice — not to ingratiate himself with […]

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Here’s Barack Obama in Missouri from CNN:
“Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face,” Obama said at an appearance Wednesday in Springfield, Missouri. “So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny […]

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As Aerosmith once said, “I’m back in the saddle, again!” Had a couple of nice days off, and I see the political arena has gotten itself in a frenzy.
Some random thoughts:
Obama foregoes public financing
I spent a couple of days with close friends in York County. One of them - mother of two, college educated, someone I […]

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Tennessee Republicans have launched a new Web video, four minutes of slamming Michelle Obama, Barack’s wife, for her comment earlier this year explaining how she’s proud of America “for the first time in my adult life.”
From CNN.com:
It features several Tennesseans saying why they are proud of America while repeatedly cutting to Mrs. Obama’s comments.
“The Tennessee […]

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I can’t quite decide if this presidential race is trying to rise above the racial arguments of the past or merely exposing the ongoing mistrust among many in our country toward people of different races and creeds, which has festered long before “We the People” ever appeared on a governing document. 
This is from a Democratic voter in […]

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