"Television programs showed recorded parts of sermons by Mr. Wright, who is nationally known for his work in creating economic development programs in the inner city, inspiring many other black ...
According to the Times, any popular GOP position is a stand-in for racial animosity: "Race did not disappear entirely from presidential campaigns; it went under cover. It lay buried in code ...
"Honesty feels heady right now. For seven years, we have lived with the arid, us-against-them formulas of Bush's menial mind, with the result that the nuanced exploration of America's hardest ...
Hagiography over Obama on the editorial page: "What is evident, though, is that he not only cleared the air over a particular controversy - he raised the discussion to a higher plane."
