[Translate] President Obama welcomes troops home.U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama addressed American Troops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Wednesday announcing the end of the Iraq War. President Obama said: It’s harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -– all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -– all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has...
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[Translate] …against our President. It’s arguably treasonous language and suggestions, coming from supposedly Christian sources, who are, according to Evangelical author Frank Schaeffer, lifting bible verses to trawl for assassins. “Most Americans will just see the bumper-sticker and smile and think that it’s facetious… What surprises me is that responsible (if you can put it that way) Republican leadership, and the editors of some of these Christian magazines, etc., etc., do not stand up in holy horror...
[Translate] What’s stunning about this election is the degree to wish there are people who seem invested in maintaing a kind of racial status quo where someone in America has to be on “top” if their White, and on the “bottom” if they’re Black. It reminds me of what my Mom told me when I tried to bring the 2005 Super Bowl to Oakland: Between Black’s who are jealous and Whites who think someone White should be doing what you’re doing, you’ve got a problem. Some of those people want...
