The Untrained Ear

Shelby Steele’s insightful and incisive piece on Barack Obama in the Wall Street Journal as a “bargainer” candidate — a candidate who offers whites racial innocence, and blacks the opportunity to “document the end of inferiority” — bears reading. One of the corollaries to the “bargainer” concept that Steele discusses is the power, and […]

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Barack Obama’s March 18 speech on race relations in the United States (note that I deliberately did not characterize it as a “speech explaining his voluntary choice of the Trinity Church, and Jeremiah Wright as the pastor, for himself, his wife and his daughters,” because that wasn’t in fact what the speech was about), should, […]

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When Hillary Clinton was caught in an obvious and blatant lie, she resorted to a standard politician tactic — “Bait Throwing.”
Let’s look at this elegant example of Bait Throwing (from, of all places, an NPR report):
Clinton told reporters in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that she erred in describing the scene, which she now realizes after talking […]

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