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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

ON THE DAY OF THE PRIMARY ...


This one is for all the Obama lovers out there, being that this is the day of the New Hamshire primary and all ...

In this scathing editorial, writer Christopher Hitchens poses several questions regarding the nation’s endorsement of presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama. Maybe too many. He asks why Obama, a man with a white mother, is considered to be black in the first place. “If you wanted a ‘black’ president,” he writes, “you could long ago have turned out en masse for Angela Davis - also the first woman to be on a national ticket - or for Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.” …Could it have been the politics?” Hitchens poses so many intelligent perspectives that any overall affect the piece might resonate is hindered by his constantly playing Devil’s advocate on a plethora of racial, religious and political issues.

Still, it’s interesting. Check it out. Click HERE.

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