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Ivy League Scolds
The audacious Obamas. Rembrandt v. Picasso. Proud like McCarthy. Plus more.
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If we think back, the gaffes did not start with Pastor Wright. I recall Obama in some hard scrabble town, speaking to a crowd who looked like they were waiting for the Bingo game to start. Obama was lamenting the sky-rocketing cost of groceries. He said “I mean, has anyone checked the price of arugula lately?” He was speaking to a bewildered “Kraft Dressing on iceberg lettuce” crowd.
p>Nice that Obama does not have to buy his arugula with food stamps as his struggling mother did. I am still trying to figure out how she got food stamps in Indonesia. Unless that humiliation came later, with his grandparents in Hawaii. Golly, two generations of no-hopers. br> — Diane Smith /p> p> It did appear that the NAACP audience Wright was addressing Sunday was the kind of older yuppie self-satisfied, well-educated, wealthy, and “non-bitter” elite that Obama was addressing in San Francisco. They did not respond the way a “typical black” congregation would. There was little applause, little emotional response, little or no shouting, and virtually no participation when he tried to elicit it. br> — Richard L.A. Schaefer br> Dubuque, Iowa /p> p> PAINTING OBAMA br> Re: Lawrence Henry’s This Race Business :
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