My generation was bitterly divided over something that should have been so clear and right. The majority believed that what the judge said, that it was God’s plan to keep people apart, and that government should discriminate against people in love. But I have lived long enough now to see big changes. The older generation’s fears and prejudices have given way, and today’s young people realize that if someone loves someone they have a right to marry.
Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the “wrong kind of person” for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people’s religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people’s civil rights.
I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.
March 11th, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
Just when you thought you were reading solid delegate counts in the 2008 Democratic nomination battle you find out you haven’t: it now turns out that Senator Barack Obama has picked up an additional four delegates, according to TMP Election Central:
We’ve just confirmed with the California Democratic Party that reports in the blogosphere, which said that Barack Obama picked up additional delegates from the vote count in California, are correct.
….To put this in perspective, over one-million votes were yet to be counted when the media estimates were first made. Those estimates had Hillary at 207 delegates to Obama’s 163. The new projection: A small alteration to Hillary 203, Obama 167, which Mulholland said is not expected to change when the election is officially certified this Saturday.
The betting is this is due to the extremely heavy use of mail-in ballots in California. In any event, in this close a race this news must leave the Obama campaign smiling and the Clinton campaign more than ever determined to work on the upcoming races — and Superdelegates.
It seems that not all Europeans favor Barack Obama. João Marques de Almeida of Portugal’s leading business daily Diario Economico writes, ‘For a liberal, center-right European, John McCain is the preferred North American candidate … There are few things better than to see a free politician.’ He goes on to argue against what was in the end Mitt Romney’s greatest appeal: ‘In times of crisis, it’s more important to have a politician with experience than one with an understanding of economics.’
By João Marques de Almeida*
Translated By Brandi Miller
February 7, 2008
For a liberal, center-right European, John McCain is the preferred North American candidate. For his liberal views of society and the economy, he’s preferable to any other Republican candidate. I have the greatest respect for the Christian religion and its unique place in Western history (of which, incidentally, I am very proud), but I think that years of sermons in churches of the southern United States, where one rapidly loses rationality, is not the best preparation for taking power.
Neither does this position expose any particular dislike for the Democratic candidates, despite the fact that Bill Clinton’s hyper-active promotion of his wife causes me some discomfort. As a matter of principle, it’s not good for an unelected person to have such enormous influence over a future president, as would happen if Hillary Clinton were elected.
As for Obama, he undoubtedly has political talent and charisma. However I’m not convinced that he’s prepared to be the American president. I identify much more with McCain’s vision of the world and its dangers and threats than with the positions of Clinton or Obama. There are four questions that from Europe’s perspective are fundamental: keeping troops in Iraq; preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons; engaging in World Trade Organization talks to reinforce the global free trade system; reforming the trans-Atlantic alliance and reforming NATO in 2009. I’m not sure a Democratic president will endeavor to accomplish these four objectives like McCain would.
In addition to these reasons, there are three other reasons that lead me to look even enthusiastically to McCain’s candidacy. The first has to do with McCain’s character and personality. There are few things better than to see a free politician. …
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All the announcements and tributes mention Congressman Tom Lantos’ distinction as being the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress. I don’t know how many Holocaust survivors have ever run for congress, but regardless, the fact that he will no longer bring the ideas and experience of that distinction to the legislative branch of our American government is unfortunate.
As the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress, Tom Lantos devoted his life to shining a bright light on dark corners of oppression. He used his chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee to empower the powerless and give voice to the voiceless throughout the world.
Though a party-line Democrat on most issues, Lantos was known for teaming up with conservatives on the panel like Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) to bring scrutiny to the suppression of free speech in China and other issues. He also teamed up with many Republicans to back the Iraq war and advocate staunch support for Israel.
“Chairman Lantos will be remembered as a man of uncommon integrity and sincere moral conviction — and a public servant who never wavered in his pursuit of a better, freer and more religiously tolerant world,” House Republican Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri said in a statement.
Lantos was not afraid to take on his allies. On the foreign affairs committee, he blasted Silicon Valley giants like Google and Yahho for colluding with China’s government in censorship. He authored tough Iran sanctions legislation but broke with pro-Israel orthodoxy by offering to meet with the Islamic Republic’s leaders. Pro-Israel groups also opposed a non-binding resolution that recognized the Ottoman era massacres of Armenians as a genocide, worried that it would cause a rift between Israel and Turkey — Lantos pushed it through the committee, unwilling to countenance what he saw as genocide revisionism.
His appeal crossed political aisles: Both the National Jewish Democratic Council and the Republican Jewish Coalition issued statements mourning his passing. Top Republicans on his committee also chimed in: “An unfailingly gracious and courageous man, Tom was recognized by friends and colleagues alike as a leader who left an enviable legacy of service to his country,” said U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the committee’s ranking member.
Our nation has lost a great public servant with the passing of Representative Tom Lantos. In serving his constituents and his country, Tom never forgot the Democratic Party’s ideals of freedom, fairness, and opportunity for all. As Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he was an authority on foreign policy issues and a voice for the oppressed. The only Holocaust survivor in Congress, he was a forceful and passionate advocate for civil liberties and human rights. Today, I join with countless others across the country in offering my thoughts and prayers to Rep. Lantos’ family and friends as we honor his life and legacy.
Among his first major legislative accomplishments was legislation to give honorary citizenship to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, a hero, who protected Lantos and many others from the Nazis. He went on to sponsor U.S. aid for Eastern European countries that had broken the shackles of communism, and became a strong voice of conscience against human rights abuses in China He was one of the leading voices in the House for sanctioning Myanmar’s regime due to human rights abuses. Among his other accomplishments, Rep. Lantos teamed with the late GOP Rep. Henry Hyde to secure $1.3 billion to fight AIDS around the world and to incentivize India to cooperate with international weapons inspectors.
In October, when Dutch parliament members came to Washington to complain to congress about Guantanamo Bay, Lantos reminded them that if not for the United States, they would be a province of Nazi Germany. He also added that “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.”
Lantos himself was an opponent of the Bush administration on the prosecution of the war, on Guantanamo, and on most other issues. But he never balked at an opportunity to defend the United States against those that would denigrate it. He recognized that politics stops at the waters edge. He was a great man, and he will be missed in Washington.
Is there a risk that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are so well-matched and well-resourced that they’ll wear themselves out before the race against the Republicans even begins? According to this analysis from Germany’s Financial Times Deutschland, ‘Obama and Clinton are the Yin and Yang of the Democratic Party. The two could annihilate one another instead of their opponents of the opposite party. … Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will have to come up with something, if they don’t want their enormous forces to nuetralize one another.’ …
By Sabine Muscat
Translated By James Jacobson
February 6, 2008
Germany - Financial Times Deutschland - Original Article (German)
The reason the Democratic race remains unsettled after Super Tuesday has a name: Missouri. This state in the Midwest has always proven to have a good sense of the candidate that would ultimately prevail.
So yesterday, Missouri voters issued their long-awaited verdict: 49 to 48 for Obama. In none of the other 22 states in which Democratic primaries were held, was the result so close. But the overall results from the other states demonstrated a similar stand-off: 11 for Obama, 11 for Clinton – if she wins New Mexico, where the vote count hasn’t been finalized. Read the rest of this entry »
February 5th, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
CNN’s election center shows that with 10 percent of the vote in, Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton and Republican Senator John McCain are ahead in their parties’ respective 2008 Presidential nomination primaries.
This obviously could change throughout what some expect will be a long night of counting — a night that could actually extend beyond the night due to mail-in ballots.
CLICK HERE for constantly-updated results. But at this writing (8:51 p.m. PST) it shows that with 10 percent of the vote in, Clinton has 497,842 votes, or 55 percent; Obama so far has 286,566 with 32 percent of the votes; and John Edwards (who is no longer in the race) has 93,697 or 10 percent percent of the votes.
On the Republican side, McCain has 341,709 or 43 percent of the vote; former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has 201, 181 or 26 percent of the vote; former Arizona Gov. Mike Huckabee has 92,867 or 12 percent of the vote; former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (no longer in the race) has 77,973 or 10 percent of the vote and Rep. Ron Paul has 29,609 or 4 percent of the vote.
It may be a long night…and perhaps even longer in California since before the vote officials indicated that it may take a while to count all of the state’s whopping number of mail-in ballots.
Clinton Appears to Blunt Late Obama Charge in California: 24 hours till votes are counted in the California Democratic Primary, Hillary Clinton appears to fend-off a late charge from Barack Obama, 52% Clinton, 42% Obama, according to SurveyUSA’s 13th and final pre-primary tracking poll.
Obama leads among men. Clinton leads among women. 44-point Gender Gap. Clinton leads among whites. Obama leads among blacks. 53-point Race Gap. Among younger voters, Clinton leads by 3. Among older voters, Clinton leads by 18. In greater San Francisco, the contest is tied. In the Central Valley, Clinton leads by 7. In greater Los Angeles, Clinton leads by 15. In the Inland Empire, Clinton leads by 16.
Choose your poll according to your political bias, say it’s a great poll and trustworthy — and accuse the one you don’t like of having lousy methodology and being unreliable. That’s the way the game is played…
You’ll know whether you made a good choice later tonight..
First we got Coulter promising with a straight face to campaign for Hillary if McCain wins. Now Rush Limbaugh is saying that he’d rather see Clinton or Obama win the presidency than John McCain, despite Bob Dole’s plea for sanity on the party’s far right. Too bad, Bob Dole. That ship sailed a long time ago.
When it comes to the McCain mutiny, Limbaugh has plenty of company on the right side of the dial. Laura Ingraham endorsed Mitt Romney last week, saying, "There is no way in hell I could pull the lever for John McCain." Sean Hannity, who also endorsed the former Massachusetts governor, regularly rips McCain. Hugh Hewitt is urging the audience for his syndicated radio show to fight for Romney against what he calls a media-generated "McCain resurrection." But with a program heard on 600 stations, including Washington’s WMAL, Limbaugh is the loudest and brashest voice inveighing against the man he derides as "Saint John of Arizona." (New York Times)
Could it be that even some of the dittoheads have noticed that the far right has turned out to be wrong about every single thing it’s said every single time? Doubtful. Clearly, though, a certain number of sane Republicans have noticed.
February 5th, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
A new Zogby poll contends Democratic Senator Barack Obama has pulled into a 13 point lead over Senator Hillary Clinton in California’s 2008 Democratic Presidential primary — and Republican former Gov. Mitt Romney has taken the lead in the GOP contest.
A cautionary note (again): polls this year have been less-accurate than weather forecasters. But here’s what Zogby has found:
The final day of polling before Super Tuesday was one of hardening positions in key races across the country, the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby survey work shows.
Arizona Sen. John McCain continued to dominate among Republicans in the states polled in the surveys, with 50% or more supporting him in New Jersey and New York. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won less than half that in those states.
Romney continued to lead, however, in delegate-rich California, with 40% support in that state, to McCain’s 33%. The Republican race was tighter in Missouri, with McCain ahead with 34% support, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in second with 27% and Romney third with 25% support.
On the Democratic side, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama continued to fight neck and neck for their party’s voters and delegates. Obama solidified his lead in California, but Clinton pulled ahead in New Jersey, where the two had been tied in the previous poll.
This is the third release of figures from rolling telephone tracking polls in New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Missouri and California. In Georgia, only the Democratic race was polled and in New York only the Republican race.
And Zogby writes:
“In California, we have Obama polling into a 13-point lead. Monday was another big single day of polling for him there. What has happened here is that in addition to building leads among almost every part of his base of support, he has dramatically cut into Clinton’s lead among Hispanic voters.
Has anyone speculated on how many of the millions of absentee ballots that have been cast across the Super Tuesday states were cast for John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Bill Richardson or Dennis Kucinich, all of whom have withdrawn from their party’s race for the presidential nomination?
This article outlines the mess in New Jersey, where some counties are allowing absentee voters to vote a second time if their first ballot was cast for a candidate who is now out of the race. But most of the state’s counties are not allowing that re-do.
When New Jersey moved its primary forward from June to February, the common conception was that Garden State primary votes might carry more weight early in the 2008 Presidential race.
Now, in some counties, those votes might carry none at all.
A judge in Ocean County ruled Thursday that voters who cast absentee ballots for candidates who have since withdrawn from the 2008 presidential race can get replacement absentee ballots before Tuesday’s primary.
But the ruling only applies specifically to Ocean County, and the decision for the rest of the ballots is up to the clerks of the other 20 counties in New Jersey.
The pollsters will tell us how previous Edwards and Giuliani supporters voted at the precincts today, but we’ll never know how things might have been different if the absentee voters had been able to designate their second Super Tuesday choices.
There also could be quite a few Californians who would like to change their votes on candidates or ballot measures because of what they have seen in late TV ads, last-minute mailers or even newspaper articles. But all things considered, it’s probably best that the absentee votes are locked in. That’s because the mailers that reached your door late last week or Monday are about as trustworthy as a flea-market laptop.
The chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party sent an e-mail reminder that “absentee ballots will save valuable time and money in the final weeks of the campaign and help busy people to remember to cast their ballots.”
Save time? Excuse me. The country asks its citizens to sit up and pay a little attention to politics every four years, rather than choosing a president by the venerable “one potato, two potato” method, and you can’t spare the time to check the headlines for a few more days? If voters can’t get to the polls before or after work, California law requires employers to give them a maximum two hours’ paid time off to vote.
Save money? What’s a stamp cost now, 41 cents? As for remembering, with political news wallpapering the world, who can forget that there’s an election on?
A call from my mother this morning prompted me to ask this question.
First, she wanted to know if I’d voted yet. I said no - I’m in Ohio - our primary isn’t until March 4.
Then she told me that she and my father had long ago cast their Connecticut absentee ballots - for John Edwards.
Then she told me that she’d heard that California was in receipt of at least 2 million absentee ballots already and that, given it’s California, very likely, many of those are for John Edwards.
So - now what?
We make such a big deal - rightly so I believe - that every vote should count.
We make such a big deal - rightly so I believe - that too few people and often only the hardest of hardcore wonks and voters in any political party vote in primaries.
We make such a big deal - rightly so I believe - about the insecurities in our voting system that we’ve encouraged record numbers of people to vote absentee.
And then, John Edwards (and Rudy, Fred, Dennis, Bill Richardson - did I miss anyone?) drops out. Before Super Tuesday. But after millions of people have cast absentee ballots. Many of which will be for him.
So - now what? Any good suggestions? Other than being upset, angry, not surprised or otherwise shrugging it off?
It seems that just about everyone, both here and abroad, have concluded that the Clintons have been wrongfully manipulating the issue of race. But according to this op-ed article by columnist Rik Kuethe of The Netherlands’ Elsevier, widespread realization of this is unlikely to stop this anti-Obama plot from working. Kuethe writes unapologetically, “the Clinton couple, one of the most powerful political machines America has ever seen, is making sure that Obama’s blackness gets rubbed into the electorate like its shoe polish.”
By Rik Kuethe
Translated By Meta Mertens
January 28, 2008
The Netherlands - Elsevier - Home Page (Dutch)
It’s not young Senator Barack Obama ensuring that race remains an election issue. That’s the work of the Clintons, as it suits them in view of Super Tuesday.
Barack Obama’s won a resounding victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary. He received 55 percent of the vote against his main opponent, Hillary Clinton, who won 27 percent. And at the start of the month [January], Obama scored his first win at their first showdown in White Iowa.
Americans are easily susceptible to something new. Many, including John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline, consider this “lemon-fresh man” to be in an excellent position to win the Democratic nomination.
Whether he succeeds will be decided on Tuesday, Feb. 5 - otherwise known as Super Tuesday - when 22 states hold their primaries simultaneously. The chances that Obama will come out the victor, however, are small.
SNOW WHITE
The young Senator from Illinois says time and again that these elections are not about race. Quite apart from the fact that he had a mother who was as white as Snow White, he certainly means what he says. He also has an interest in keeping it so.
But more recently, the Clinton couple, one of the most powerful political machines America has ever seen, is making sure that Obama’s blackness gets rubbed into the electorate like its shoe polish.
February 4th, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
Two new polls show Democratic Senator Barack Obama’s support is growing on the eve of the Super Tuesday Presidential nomination primaries — one shows him slightly ahead of Senator Hillary Clinton — and that Republican Senator John McCain continues to make solid gains.
Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton is losing ground to Sen. Barack Obama in a national CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released on the eve of critical Super Tuesday presidential primaries and caucuses.
The two are virtually tied in Monday’s survey, which shows the New York senator has lost a comfortable national lead she’s held for months over Obama and other rivals.
The survey also shows Arizona Sen. John McCain as the clear Republican front-runner.
Obama, who trounced Clinton in January’s South Carolina primary, garnered 49 percent of registered Democrats in Monday’s poll, while Clinton trailed by just three points, a gap well within the survey’s 4.5 percentage point margin of error.
“Coming out of his overwhelming victory in South Carolina and followed quickly by his Kennedy family endorsements, Obama clearly has the momentum in this campaign,” said Bill Schneider, CNN’s senior political analyst.
Pollster John Zogby finds McCain “on a roll” and Obama-Clinton “neck-and-neck” — with Obama having pulled ahead in the delegate-rich state of California:
The Mac Attack appears ready to launch on Super Tuesday. McCain’s leads are commanding, except for in California where Romney leads in Southern California and among women, investors, and voters over Read the rest of this entry »
Will Republicans allow John McCain to save them from ‘an election that was said to be lost in advance?’ Le Figaro’s deputy editorial editor Pierre Rousselin wonders whether Republicans will grasp perhaps their last and best opportunity to retain control of the all-important White House.
“He has managed to exasperate the most traditional Republicans with his positions … but his five and a half years in Vietcong prisons suffering the most brutal torture allow him to take certain liberties. … Here is a man of experience, who stands outside partisan orthodoxy, but who is capable of operating in the “breach” and winning an election that was said to be lost in advance … The Super-Tuesday primaries will show whether the Republicans are able to seize the opportunity.”
By Pierre Rousselin
Translated By James Jacobson
January 31, 2008
France - Le Figaro - Original Article (French
The Republican Party may have found in Florida its providential man. By winning the first primary election held in one of the most populated states of the Union, John McCain is emerging as the favorite in race for the Republican nomination. Six months ago, no one would have bet on this former Vietnam hero who had the mad audacity to applaud the idea of sending additional troops to Iraq.
February 3rd, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
California’s first lady Maria Shriver has just appeared as a special surprise guest at the rally for Barack Obama in Los Angeles to endorse him for President. It was aired live on CSPAN.
“I wasn’t on the schedule,” she said. “I thought to myself when i woke up this morning there’s no place I should be but right here today.”
She said this morning she told her daughter: “I think I should be at UCLA. She said to me ‘Mommy. If you think you could help, if you think you could change just one person just do it.’ So I am here today as a woman and a Californian. I believe elections are a lot like life — they are made up of moments…The more I though about it, the more I thought this election is about moments…This is a moment not just for the U.S. of A. and for the Democratic party — this is a moment for California.”
“The more I thought about it, the more I thought: if Barack Obama was a state he would be California…This is a moment. A moment to have a conversation with yourself. A conversation with your heart…We have to see beyond the labels that divide us.”
February 3rd, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
First, came the controversies about the innuendos about Senator Barack Obama, the apologies and the occasional resignation (after the info was thrust into the news cycle). Next came The Bill Clinton offensive and display of the race card. And now comes this L.A. Times’ blog report about push polling — again coming from supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton:
[UPDATE: Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall has his doubts about the veracity of this story since it reportedly ran 20 minutes and the story was sourced to just one person. Click on the link and read his post. Also read Pollster.com’s take. ]
Ed Coghlan was just starting to prepare his dinner in the northern San Fernando Valley the other night when the phone rang. The caller was very friendly. He identified himself as a pollster who wanted to ask registered independents like Coghlan a few questions about the presidential race and all the candidates for Super Tuesday’s California primary.
Ed, who’s a former news director for a local TV station, was curious. He said, “Sure, go ahead.”
But a few minutes into the conversation Ed says he noticed a strange pattern developing to the questions. First of all, the “pollster” was only asking about four candidates, three Democrats — Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, who was still in the race at the time — and one Republican — John McCain. Read the rest of this entry »
February 3rd, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
In what is shaping up as one of the most dramatic moments in American political history, pre-Super Tuesday primary polls show the race between Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination is tightening, while Republican Senator John McCain is apparently poised to solidify his hold as the front-runner for the Republican nomination.
Polls and interpretations vary. Is there an Obama surge? Or has Obama’s momentum stalled? Is Clinton’s hold slipping away? Or is she so far ahead in the states that matter that Obama’s showing will be mere stagecraft? And can hard-core conservatives and talk show hosts deprive McCain of what now seems within his grasp?
It is interesting to see what aspects of the U.S. Presidential Race most interest foreign journalists. As the field narrows, the question of the impact of Latino antipathy toward blacks on support for Obama is being increasingly addressed by the foreign press.
Animosity between Latinos and Blacks is the worst kept secret when it comes to relations between the races
Rather colorfully, the author puts it this way:
One-third of all blacks are convinced that Latinos pinch their jobs. Conversely, more than half of Latinos think that their black brothers are too lazy “to dance for the devil.” Why don’t they do as the Latinos and through work elevate themselves out of their misery instead of always loudly complaining, is an oft-heard question.
As a practical matter, the issue for Obama is most serious where the stakes are highest: the population of CA is now 35% Hispanic.
February 2nd, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
Once again, former President Bill Clinton seems poised to be pitchforked into the headlines right on the eve of a crucial primary vote amid a report that he’s going to “repent” by going to some black churches. Almost on the EVE of the Super Tuesday primaries, Clinton will garner attention that could be focused on his wife Hillary Clinton:
Once again, Bill Clinton is ready to repent.
On Sunday the former president is scheduled to visit black churches in South Central Los Angeles, where he’s expected to offer a mea culpa to those who “dearly loved him” when he was their president, Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) says.
[UPDATE: The Clinton campaign has now denied that he will do a mea culpa. But is the door still ajar for a news-making apology? Read OUR LATEST POST HERE.]
This will get LOTS of media attention tomorrow. And it will be in the news cycle Monday.
So the stage is being set to give Bill Clinton a pass, because he is Bill Clinton. But lest we re-write recent history, Mr. Clinton had been accused of raising the race issue SEVERAL times, including blatantly right after Senator Barack Obama won South Carolina.
Because he is Bill Clinton (who just coincidentally will make the apology right before Super Tuesday) is he allowed to just apologize and pretend it never happened or that it some how just came out of his mouth like the aftermath of food poisoning? More from the Washington Post:
Watson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who has endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), tells us she’ll usher the former president to more than half a dozen churches in her district where she says he needs to “renew his relationship” with congregants who were turned off by his racially tinged comments in the days leading up to and following the South Carolina primary. (Such as when Clinton compared Sen. Barack Obama’s landslide victory to Jesse Jackson’s Read the rest of this entry »
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