Will We Unite?

Saturday’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner was the biggest ever in North Carolina. And the most divided. When the Governor gets booed, you know feelings run high. It’s like those state Republican conventions back in the 1970s when the moderates and the Jessecrats were at war. Can the split be healed by November? My guess is that it…

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It’s All About Race

Jeremiah Wright has Swift-boated Barack Obama. Obama’s boat may not be sinking, but he will be foundering if Hillary wins Indiana and keeps it close in North Carolina. The North Carolina Democrats who support Clinton deny her campaign is about race. They (or, at least, most of them) sincerely don’t want it to be about…

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Sound Bite Versus Reality

Since the Trojan Horse the divergence between appearance versus reality has been a motif in literature. The beast turns out to be a prince. The three witches tell Macbeth he’s safe until Birnham Wood moves to Dunsaine Hill. Which appears impossible. But happens. Today it could be Sound Bite versus Reality. And Reverend Jeremiah Wright…

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