Is this the last straw? From Politico: During the show, conversation turned to a story about how suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones now wants to drop his well-known nickname. In the course of the segment, Imus is told that Jones has “been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005.” Imus [...]

Many things have been labelled as “racist” in this campaign season, and most of them don’t come anywhere close to qualifying. However, this button is absolutely, 100% out of line, and I hope that once the state GOPers find out about it, they’ll demand this vendor leaves. I mean, this is a convention where Mike [...]

And not only does it promise to be fairly flattering portrayal, but the author is detailing why evangelicals (especially young ones) may swing for Obama this election. From Politico: The forthcoming volume from Stephen Mansfield, whose sympathetic “The Faith of George W. Bush” spent 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 2004, [...]

Over Father’s Day, Barack Obama delivered a strong message to black fathers: do better. ”They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.” He also added: ”We can’t simply write these problems off to past injustices. Those injustices are real. There’s a [...]

Fervent supporters of Barack Obama like to say that putting him in the White House would transform America. With all due respect to the candidate, that gets it backward. Mr. Obama is an impressive speaker who has run a brilliant campaign — but if he wins in November, it will be because our country has [...]

That’s the word from somebody who backed Clinton, and it ain’t pretty… U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews, who supported Hillary Clinton throughout the primary season, disclosed he received a phone call shortly before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary from a top member of Clinton’s organization and that the caller explicitly discussed a strategy of winning over [...]

I think we’re about to see Clinton’s last gasp… Apparently there’s a video circulating of Michelle Obama asking questions about Bush’s actions over the years. Clinton die-hard Larry Johnson is suggesting that Michelle Obama is saying “whitey” on the tapes in reference to Bush. Booman Tribune has apparently heard what’s on the tape and lays [...]

While this won’t shut up critics who think Obama actually believes the nonsense that Wright said, it will stop stories like this latest Father Pfleger flap from happening during the general election. Here’s a reaction from The Corner: It’s been just over two months since Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race — the one that was [...]

With this latest pastor flare-up, I stumbled across an old post from Dennis Sanders about Wright in March. He comes at this story from a very unique perspective, and as much as I’d like for the Wright story to just go away because I don’t think Obama should be held responsible for what somebody else [...]

Obama has already condemned Comedian Father Michael Pfleger, and his connection to this joker seems tenuous at best, but that’s not going to stop people from associating Obama with remarks he had absolutely nothing to do with. Here’s a story from the Today Show… Honestly, I think this might help Obama. Eventually, people are going [...]

From MSNBC: Black Television News Channel, scheduled to launch in 2009, will provide “original news programming with a distinctly African-American perspective,” according to a news release. It recently announced a multiyear agreement with Comcast Corp. “With this agreement, Comcast continues to demonstrate its commitment to working with independent programmers with diverse points of view,” Watts [...]

Ahhh Jon…it’s almost too easy… I hadn’t seen those interviews before, but seriously…wow. Gotta love that reasoning!

This guy is shaping up to be THE guy to beat in the VP stakes because he can really help Obama with his “race” problem. What’s apparent from the following clip is he understands why people may not be choosing Obama based on race…and it’s not necessarily racism. The part I’m talking about starts about [...]

This juxtaposition definitely exposes how flimsy Clinton’s racial argument is. From National Journal: “Well, I don’t think that carries any more weight than anyone who will argue that the fact that she only got 8 percent of the African-American vote in North Carolina indicates that she cannot get African-American votes in the general election.” Agreed. [...]

Okay, somebody has to stop this woman. I thought she’d get a clue after Indiana, I thought she’d actually realize that the math was literally impossible at this point, but she’s apparently going to stick with this thing until every single last vote is counted and maybe even beyond that. From USA Today: Hillary Rodham [...]

The first 14 minutes of the program today were devoted to reverend and his latest statements. And so it goes…

Just a followup on what I shared earlier. (h/t: TPM)

After yesterday’s performance by the reverend, you knew it had to be coming. And while this isn’t the same as throwing Wright under the bus, it does suggest that Obama understands how far off the reservation his former pastor’s views are. From TPM comes this from Obama: The person I saw yesterday was not the [...]

That’s the whisper from Politico… I was talking the other day to a prominent Republican who asked me what I thought John McCain’s strongest issues would be in the general election. Lower taxes and the argument he will be better able to protect America from its enemies, I said. [...] The Republican shook his head. [...]

I guess that’s what you get for voting against the holiday named after the man, but to be fair…that vote was in 1983. Also, he has consistently said he regretted his decision. Still, the boo birds were out today… Jake Tapper has more about the background of this story.