MB Civic

By Eugene Robinson | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 | The Washington Post

Barack Obama, who is both an African American and the biracial son of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother – has embraced what Robinson calls “both-and” thinking, in an era where politics has degenerated in “either-or” divisions and brutal inter-party conflict. Politics today seems mired in what remains of the bitter conflicts of the 1960s, while the rest of the nation has moved on. Special focus is given to Obama’s call for personal responsibility – a concept championed by Bill Cosby, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton…BS

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