Archive for September 21st, 2009
Brzezinski: US military should confront Israel »
Daily Beast: How aggressive can Obama be in insisting to the Israelis that a military strike might be in America’s worst interest? Brzezinski: We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? Daily Beast: What if they fly over anyway? Brzezinski: Well, we [...]
Dave Mathews: Racism is everywhere! »
I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here -- I just see it everywhere. There's a good population of people in this country that are terrified of the [...]
African American ESPN newscaster is ‘very »
I'm very, very disturbed---as an African American growing up on the streets of New York City, I understand what poverty is all about, I understand what trials and tribulations mean but at the same time I'm looking at what we're witnessing from our president, a man that I voted for, a man that I was proud to vote for at the time, simply from a [...]
A liberal assessment of the 9-12 D.C. rally »
Logically, there is no way I can assess the collective motivations of 70,000 people in Washington, or the tens of thousands of people who showed up at other events across the country. And, in truth, I confess to having an inner Maureen Dowd voice — and not the snarky part of that voice — but the voice that tells me that these protests are [...]
What a NYT columnist heard in Joe Wilson’s »
The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the [...]
