Barb’s Blog

Today on Politico, an article makes the claim that Obama is playing the race card to help in the 2010 elections. Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to “young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.” At first, I didn’t think much of the article, using  African Americans or Latinos to help him win or keep seats in 2010. I did think about it AFTER I saw this video, of Obama’s own National Security Adviser telling a joke about Jews and the Taliban. I don’t know, you can’t play the race card on one side, and tell racist like jokes on the other. … Read entire article »