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<P>Frank Rich, the barometer of the liberal denial of issues of economy and class, in today's NYT:</P>
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<P>Last week, <A title="Last week’s column." href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html"><FONT color=#000066>after I wrote about the role race plays</FONT></A> in some of the apocalyptic right-wing hysteria about the health care bill, a friend who is a prominent liberal Obama supporter sent me an e-mail flipping my point. He theorized that race also plays a role in “the often angry and intemperate talk” he has been hearing from “left-liberal friends for the past many months about what a failure and a disappointment” the president has been. In his view, “Obama never said anything, while running, to give anyone the idea” that he was other than a “deliberate, compromise-seeking bipartisan moderate.” My friend wondered if white liberals who voted for Obama expected a “sweeping Republicans-be-damned kind of agenda” in part — and he emphasized “in part!” — because “<STRONG>they expect a black guy to be
intemperate, impetuous, impatient</STRONG>” rather than “measured, deliberate, patient.” </P>
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<P><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04rich.html?hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04rich.html?hp</A></P>
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