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Halloween pumpkins to support the President and Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.

From Rachel Maddow’s blog

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A woman casts her vote for midterm general elections at a polling station in Silver Spring, Maryland, on November 2

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Race and the Tea Party’s Ire

By Eugene Robinson

The first African-American president takes office, and almost immediately we see the birth of a big, passionate national movement—overwhelmingly white and lavishly funded—that tries its best to delegitimize that president, seeks to thwart his every initiative, and manages to bring the discredited and moribund opposition party roaring back to life. Coincidence?

…..I have to wonder what it is about Obama that provokes and sustains all this tea party ire. I wonder how he can be seen as “elitist,” when he grew up in modest circumstances—his mother was on food stamps for a time—and paid for his fancy-pants education with student loans. I wonder how people who genuinely cherish the American dream can look at a man who lived that dream and feel no connection, no empathy.

I ask myself what’s so different about Obama, and the answer is pretty obvious: He’s black. For whatever reason, I think this makes some people unsettled, anxious, even suspicious—witness the willingness of so many to believe absurd conspiracy theories about Obama’s birthplace, his religion, and even his absent father’s supposed Svengali-like influence from the grave.

Obama has made mistakes that rightly cost him political support. But I can’t help believing that the tea party’s rise was partly due to circumstances beyond his control—that he’s different from other presidents, and that the difference is his race.

Full article here

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An Indian schoolboy makes a sketch of President Barack Obama at the Holy Name school in Mumbai, India, Nov 2. Students of this school are gearing up to celebrate Diwali festival with President Obama during his visit later this week