Halloween pumpkins to support the President and Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.
From Rachel Maddow’s blog
Halloween pumpkins to support the President and Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.
From Rachel Maddow’s blog
Sweet đ
A woman casts her vote for midterm general elections at a polling station in Silver Spring, Maryland, on November 2
Race and the Tea Partyâs Ire
By Eugene Robinson
The first African-American president takes office, and almost immediately we see the birth of a big, passionate national movementâoverwhelmingly white and lavishly fundedâthat 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 âelitist,â when he grew up in modest circumstancesâhis mother was on food stamps for a timeâand 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 whatâs so different about Obama, and the answer is pretty obvious: Heâs black. For whatever reason, I think this makes some people unsettled, anxious, even suspiciousâwitness the willingness of so many to believe absurd conspiracy theories about Obamaâs birthplace, his religion, and even his absent fatherâs supposed Svengali-like influence from the grave.
Obama has made mistakes that rightly cost him political support. But I canât help believing that the tea partyâs rise was partly due to circumstances beyond his controlâthat heâs different from other presidents, and that the difference is his race.
Full article here
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
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