Daily Archives: 05/31/2009

(Community Matters) I take no pleasure (can’t even laugh) in watching Rush, Gingrich, Tancredo and their tribe rant against Sotomayor as a racist, aside from the wedge this will further institutionalize against the GOP. While the majority of Americans realize we are richer for our diversity – which the best in corporate America have realized for years – the hate team is desperate to frame the Sotomayor debate in them/us terms. There is no authentic debate about whether or not the Supreme Court would serve our country better with diversity on the bench.

Gotta say, I’m less and less impressed with Gibbs’ effectiveness. Either he’s being held back, he’s incapable of metaphorically wrestling away the microphone, or others in the White House are too controlling & unrealistic of BHO’s coverage.

(Community Matters) Reading Frank Rich’s column this morning, occurs to me that President Obama must be as forceful in his legislative advocacy & articulation of the real options as the Republicans are in their opposition. Democratic Senate opposition to closing Guantanamo appears to signal a still weakened legislature against the fearmongering rhetoric. Rich suggests this weakness among national journalists as well.

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Steven and I are at Jane Hickie’s & Michele Dunkerley’s ranch in Stephenville. Nice gigs. We’ll relax. Posted from my blackberry.