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When First They Came…. Prejudice Against Arabs is an Approved Hatred in America

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for [...]

Mean Boys: Bush Turns His Back on Cuban Disaster

Hundreds have lost their lives and nearly a million people are without shelter, medical supplies, or food in the aftermath of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike (which is ravaging Cuba at this moment with a storm surge as high as a five story apartment building and winds up to 150 mph, according to Reuters.)
But Condi Rice [...]

Robert F. Kennedy: What if he had lived? —– A Golden Age That Never Was

40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed.
As a young student at Columbia University – off for the summer — I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week. The spring of 1968 had been exhilarating and tumultuous.
Gene [...]

Powerful Video of Ugly Sexist Vilification of Hillary Clinton

Sexism is alive and well in America.  One exit poll I saw had almost twice as many voters having trouble voting for a woman for president than voting for a black man.  The New York Times had a long piece about a future woman president today, Kate Zernike writes:
That woman will come from the South, [...]

Is Obama Running Away from the Black Community?

Obama has been castigated in the black community for his failure to speak out against the Bell verdict in New York City. The ruling vindicated the right of police officers to fire 50 bullets and kill an unarmed young black man because they thought someone in the car might have been reaching down under the [...]

Spring 1968: The Night the Cops Tried to Kill Me at Columbia

April 30, 1968
With billy clubs swinging, bloodying heads, a phalanx of riot police stomped their way through the crowd of faculty supporters standing outside Fayerweather Hall. No one was given a chance to walk away.
The police then proceeded to smash in the main doors of the Hall where students had been camped out for a [...]

Clinton Uses Political Jujitsu to Blunt Obama’s Strength

Rev Wright: “Obama Says What He Has to Say as a Politician”
The above quote is from Bill Moyer’s interview with Rev. Wright which is to air tonight. Rev. Wright, referring to Obama’s disavowal of Wright’s more controversial comments, said “He does what politicians do.”
Sometimes…
Obama’s ambivalence about playing the political game is how the Clinton’s have [...]

Debates are Show Business

They are not usually about Issues. In this primary process, they are about Who Is the Best Candidate?
Who can Win?
Ever since the first televised debate between Kennedy & Nixon, voters have often judged candidates on inconsequential issues… Nixon lost the 1960 debate, and election, because of such trivia as how much did he sweat?…How much [...]

Snob-Obama is Not Just Out of Touch. He’s From Another Planet

This is how the Republicans are trying to define Barack Obama: Too Liberal, Too Out of Touch.
“I know what makes people there ‘bitter.’ It’s slick-talking politicians who look down on their beliefs and values.”  Michael Goodwin wrote in Sunday’s Daily News about his small town in Pennsylvania.
The well-circulated quotes from Huffington Post — of Obama [...]