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Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
Douglas Wilder / American Politician
Age
America
Gilded
Sept 11
Sept
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The first black president will be a politician who is black.
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Political
President
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Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.
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Continents
Country
Littles
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You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
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Moving
Obligation
Public Service
Term
Public
Earn
Move
Terms
Stop
Service
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Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
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Involvement
Slavery
Joke
Pass
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Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
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Men
Black
Humiliated
Qualified
Racism
Man Black Racism
Elected
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I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.
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Firing
Shooting
Me People Enemy
Fought
Front Line
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The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
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Backwards
Mainstream
Virginia
Represent
Divide
Tries
Unify
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Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
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Involvement
Slavery
Usa
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If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.
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Running
Mates
Mccain
Mistake
Serious
Admit
Choosing
John
Sip
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There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.
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Looks
Motivation
Way
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In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.
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Class
Names
Stress
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What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
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Black
Blackness
Dresses
Forgiving
Certain Things
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My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.
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Definitions
Eye
People
American People
Buck
Definition
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Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.
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Believe
Hands
Race
Hand
Lay
Prism
So Many People
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Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.
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Enemy
President
Taliban
Vice President
Vices
Charge
Joe
Suppose
Vice
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During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.
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African American
Barack
Clinton
Democratic
Democratic Leaders
Including
Leader
President
Prominent
Safe
Barack Obama
Bet
Believed
Campaign
Politicians
Endorsed
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Strongly
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Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.
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Running
Names
Team
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Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.
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Abraham
Admiration
Audacious
Clinton
Needed
Rivals
Obama
Expressed
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Lincoln
Mate
Paints
Portrait
Running Mate
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Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.
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Debate
Democratic
Democratic Society
Discourse
Entertainers
Filibuster
Replaced
Robust
Sensors
Actual
Automatic
Mr
Washington
Eliminate
Expert
La
Smith
Spin
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Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.
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Government
America
Believe
Big Business
Involving
Policy
Pundits
Fair
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Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.
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War
African American
Black America
Civil Rights
Doors
Halls
Opening
Presidency
Promise
Rights
Acts
African-American Community
Believed
Civil
Elected
Flourish
Symbolize
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Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.
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Country
Enormous
Foundation
Greece
Investors
Organization
Rescue
Size
Weak
Bolster
Budget
Neighbors
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Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win.
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Clinton
Danger
Enamored
Inauguration
Voters
Working Class
Distant
Grown
Heady
Independents
Pose
Wary
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