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By Clarence Page “Eric, don’t call my bluff.” Those words suggest President Obama has had it up to here with the preening and posturing of Republican “negotiators” who won’t negotiate. Who could blame him? Obama’s warning to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor came at the abrupt conclusion of Wednesday’s talks about the debt-ceiling crisis. The [...]
By Clarence Page Race relations have undergone a curious flip-flop. Polls show blacks feel more optimistic about the nation’s future than whites, despite the Great Recession that’s giving everybody the blues. Having a black, or, if you prefer, biracial, president explains a lot of that optimism, polls show. But white Americans, particularly working-class whites without [...]
By Clarence Page Native American leaders are upset that Geronimo’s name was used as code for Osama bin Laden. I respect their concern, but I don’t think this particular reference is the insult tribal leaders think it is. Quite the opposite, it sounds to me like a salute to the Apache warrior’s leadership genius and [...]
By Clarence Page Surprise, surprise! Faced with the prospect of Medicare cuts, even tea party folks find griping about “big government” to be a lot more fun than actually shrinking it. Seventy percent of those who identified themselves as supporters of the fiscally conservative movement in a new McClatchy-Marist poll oppose cuts to Medicaid and [...]
By Clarence Page Donald Trump has joined the “birthers,” the odd movement that questions President Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate. That’s a good way for the celebrity billionaire to appear as though he’s making a serious run for the Republican presidential nomination, which he says he is considering. It also makes him sound like a [...]
By GRANT HILL “The Fab Five,” an ESPN film about the Michigan basketball careers of Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson from 1991 to 1993, was broadcast for the first time Sunday night. In the show, Rose, the show’s executive producer, stated that Duke recruited only black players he considered [...]
By Eugene Robinson For all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, Republicans are assembling what looks like a remarkably weak field of candidates for the 2012 election – an odd assortment of the uninspiring and the unelectable. In part, this reflects a healthy respect for Obama’s formidable political skills. If Obama is [...]
By Clarence Page As the participants in Egypt’s remarkably leaderless uprising try to organize their future, they would be wise to acknowledge a significant coincidence: President Hosni Mubarak just happened to announce his exit on the 21st anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from political imprisonment in South Africa. There’s a sobering message in that happenstance: [...]
By Eugene Robinson The Obama administration has done a creditable job of gently edging Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak toward some sort of gilded exile. Now it’s time to push. Hard. Cherished ideals of democracy and cold exigencies of realpolitik both demand that U.S. officials do whatever is in their power – which, frankly, may not [...]
By Clarence Page CBS anchor Katie Couric startled some listeners when she suggested a Muslim “Cosby Show,” but the idea actually has merit. It’s hard to be afraid of the people we see on TV sitcoms every week. Such are the recent news items that led Couric in a recent year-in-review discussion to suggest a [...]
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