The President was elected, not by the dyed-in-the-wool liberals, but rather with the good wishes of independents, who hoped for the well advertised 'post-racial presidency.'
A casual glance at the threads on the board today, and one can quickly see that the last year and a half has hardly moved the country to a new dimension in race relations.
This failure of the Presidents' promise will not go unnoticed.
Nor has President Obama provided other motivations to vote for him.
WASHINGTON -- After nearly two years of Hope and Change, the seas have not receded, the world has not turned into a gentle dove in His hands, and we have not slipped the surly shackles of partisanship.
The Obama administration prejudged Sherrod and her 45-minute speech based on a two-minute snippet zapped around the Internet by her detractors.
Welcome to yet another "teachable moment" in American race relations. In the last such moment, Professor Obama initially went off half-cocked and assumed that a white cop was wrong to arrest his black buddy.
With debt cascading all around us, government incompetence more evident than ever, and puny politics reining unchecked, Americans thought we could take solace in one sure achievement of Obama's election.
America's first black president, we thought, might move us beyond the tangled kelp of racism.
Read more: O the race 'healer' just another heel - NYPOST.com
Read more: O the race 'healer' just another heel - NYPOST.com
A casual glance at the threads on the board today, and one can quickly see that the last year and a half has hardly moved the country to a new dimension in race relations.
This failure of the Presidents' promise will not go unnoticed.
Nor has President Obama provided other motivations to vote for him.
WASHINGTON -- After nearly two years of Hope and Change, the seas have not receded, the world has not turned into a gentle dove in His hands, and we have not slipped the surly shackles of partisanship.
The Obama administration prejudged Sherrod and her 45-minute speech based on a two-minute snippet zapped around the Internet by her detractors.
Welcome to yet another "teachable moment" in American race relations. In the last such moment, Professor Obama initially went off half-cocked and assumed that a white cop was wrong to arrest his black buddy.
With debt cascading all around us, government incompetence more evident than ever, and puny politics reining unchecked, Americans thought we could take solace in one sure achievement of Obama's election.
America's first black president, we thought, might move us beyond the tangled kelp of racism.
Read more: O the race 'healer' just another heel - NYPOST.com
Read more: O the race 'healer' just another heel - NYPOST.com