Bill Clinton was at the centre of a race storm last night after he was accused of denigrating Barack Obama. The former president allegedly claimed during the hard-fought Democratic primary race: ‘A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.’ He is said to have made the racist remark in a phone call entreating Senator Teddy Kennedy, the party’s vastly influential elder statesman,... 

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s supporters promised that his election would allow America to “transcend race."  Among the headlines: The Boston Globe: "Obama shows an ability to transcend race” Share/Save Read More →

By Aaron Klein President Obama's policies against Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem and the strategic West Bank were slammed as "racist" today by participants in a rally drawing about 2,000 Israelis in front of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem. Share/Save Read More →

By Victor Davis Hansen Barack Obama has reached down to a lowly (though no longer “stupid”) cop and raised him up to the presidential empyrean: “And I have to tell you that, as I said yesterday, my impression of [Sgt. James Crowley] was that he was an outstanding police officer and a good man, and that was confirmed in the phone conversation — and I told him that,”... 

PAPER: Sotomayor once described herself as 'product of affirmative action'. Sotomayer admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to 'cultural biases… built into testing'. Republicans ask Sotomayor for more documents. Share/Save Read More →

By David Squires The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says he does not feel any regrets over his severed relationship with President Barack Obama, a former member of the Chicago church in which Wright was the longtime pastor. Share/Save Read More →

The Ethel C. Fenig OMG!  I agree with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn!  Sort of.  Abdon M. Pallasch,  reports in the Chicago Sun-Times on a speech that dynamite duo gave to a small gathering on Memorial Day, proclaiming racism (is) not dead. Share/Save Read More →

From Hot Air:  Courtesy of our friends at Verum Serum, who have plenty more to say about Sonia Sotomayor. Not only do we have Sotomayor essentially admitting that she sees lawmaking as the purview of courts, but a speech given in 2001 makes Sotomayor sound like the kind of identity-politics hack that most people saw in Lani Guinier when her appointment in the Clinton administration went down to... 

In 2001, Sonia Sotomayor, an appeals court judge, gave a speech declaring that the ethnicity and sex of a judge “may and will make a difference in our judging.” In her speech, Judge Sotomayor questioned the famous notion — often invoked by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her retired Supreme Court colleague, Sandra Day O’Connor — that a wise old man and a wise old woman... 

By Jeffrey Rosen  A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Sonia Sotomayor's biography is so compelling that many view her as the presumptive front-runner for Obama's first Supreme Court appointment. She grew up in the South Bronx, the daughter of Puerto Rican parents. Her father, a manual laborer who never attended high school, died a year after she was diagnosed with... 

By Kevin McCullough "Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about. They don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks. And there is no way around that…...