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Obama truly is a "magic Negro" in name and in the minds of many whites. He's a warm and fuzzy, a practically made-in-heaven black man who makes no uncomfortable racial demands. Limbaugh got that right...... Rush Limbaugh figured out the perfect angle to get the tongues wagging about him. He played the Barack Obama card and dredged up the canned lyrics that he had an Al Sharpton impersonator croon on his show that mocked Obama as "the magic Negro." That was the tag that writer David Ehrenstein slapped on Obama in a Los Angeles Times opinion editorial that published March...

Barack Hussein Obama stumbled during the first Democratic debate

Suddenly, our open senator is acting like a dissembling pol Barack Obama tells us he is the messenger of a new kind of politics. Open. Transparent. Different. But put the pedal to the metal and ask Illinois' junior senator new and serious questions about his radioactive, federally indicted, former friend Antoin "Tony" Rezko, and suddenly this gleaming presidential hopeful and paragon of new politics behaves just like any other dissembling, dismissive Chicago pol, ducking the discussion while pretending not to. The story behind the story of this week's Sun-Times' reports on Rezko, the power broker slumlord, and Obama, voice for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama rebuked Republican White House rival Rudy Giuliani Wednesday for suggesting the United States could face another major terrorist attack if a Democrat is elected in 2008. Obama, an Illinois senator, said the man who served as New York mayor's during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should not be making the serious threat that faces the country into "the punchline of another political attack." "Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I believe Americans are ready to reject those kind of politics," Obama said in a statement....

Hours after the Virginia Tech massacre, Barack Obama spoke at a campaign stop in Milwaukee. Obama could have shown compassion unalloyed with politics, what one hopes to find in a leader when disaster strikes. But he didn't. In the grand tradition of leftist orators, Obama repackaged the awful news of the day to "reflect" on his own political themes. "I hope," the candidate said about the massacre, "that it causes us to reflect a little more broadly on the degree to which we do accept violence in various forms all the time in our society: we glorify it, we encourage...