“I have said in the past _ and Ill repeat again _ that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed,” the Illinois Democrat said recently.
Some two dozen members of Congress are co-sponsors of legislation to create a commission that would study reparations [...]
Three men stood up as Obama was talking about the economy during a townhall meeting in St Petersburg in Florida, a key battleground state in Obama’s duel with Republican John McCain in November’s election.
“What about the black community?” the protestors chanted, prompting Obama’s crowd of supporters to chant his slogan “Yes We Can” to drown [...]
Presidential candidate John McCain on Sunday endorsed a proposal to ban affirmative action programs in his home state, a policy that Democratic rival Barack Obama called a disappointing embrace of divisive tactics.
In the past, McCain has criticized such ballot initiatives.
Link:My Way News
GEE’S BEND, Ala. (AP) - John McCain squinted in the midday sunshine as he crossed the meandering Alabama River aboard the Gee’s Bend ferry, smiling at a dozen elderly black women who clasped his hands and crooned gospel hymns.
The ferry began running in 2006 with $3 million in federal dollars—money the senator voted against—four decades [...]
In a Post-ABC News poll last month, nearly nine in 10 whites said they would be comfortable with a black president. While fewer whites, about two-thirds, said they would be “entirely comfortable” with it, that was more than double the percentage of all adults who said they would be so at ease with someone entering [...]
According to a Martinez press release, the language merely “create[s] national licensing and oversight standards for residential mortgage originators.”
Link:The Foundry
Barack Obama made a call for nonviolence in the aftermath of the Sean Bell verdict - infuriating the Rev. Al Sharpton, who accused the presidential candidate of trying to “grandstand in front of white people,” sources told The Post.
During what a source described as a “heated” phone call yesterday, Sharpton told Obama he was disappointed [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Republican Sen. John McCain, campaigning through poverty-stricken cities and towns, said Wednesday he opposes a Senate bill that seeks equal pay for women because it would lead to more lawsuits.
Senate Republicans killed the bill Wednesday night on a 56-42 vote that denied the measure the 60 votes needed to advance it to [...]
The independent label sticks to John McCain because he antagonizes fellow Republicans and likes to work with Democrats.
But a different label applies to his actual record: conservative.
The likely Republican presidential nominee is much more conservative than voters appear to realize. McCain leans to the right on issue after issue, not just on the Iraq war [...]
Sen. Barack Obama says if elected president he won’t require that his appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff support allowing gays to serve openly in the military.
The Democratic presidential front-runner told The Advocate, a gay magazine, that he wants to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays, which was instituted during the [...]
McCain reiterated that he now regrets his vote some 25 years ago in the House against the House bill that declared Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday. The bill was cleared by the House in 1983 by a vote of 338-90 before making its way to the Senate, where it passed with a 78-22 [...]
