We taped the McLaughlin Group Friday afternoon, and moderator John McLaughlin suggested that after this week's events, what a disappointment Obama is after having promised us a post-racial presidency. Panelist Clarence Page pointed out that nowhere did Obama claim such a thing, that the post-racial presidency is a media creation. Yes, candidate Obama gave a thoughtful speech on race in Philadelphia after racially incendiary tapes of his pastor's sermons surfaced, but it was more to save his campaign than to assert himself as the paragon of a new racial paradigm.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
I ALSO DIDN'T RECALL THIS
Fats Limbaugh often claims that Pres. Obama promised us a new, post-racial society but he has failed miserably. I didn't think Pres. Obama made this claim and Eleanor Clifton agrees:
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