andymays
07-26-2010, 10:28 AM
Shirley Sherrod’s firing isn’t a teachable moment. It was a wake-up call for the White House gang that can’t shoot straight.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-26/shirley-sherrod-fiasco-why-obama-should-talk-more-about-race/
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Let’s NOT have a conversation about race. The calls for Obama to now make the Shirley Sherrod debacle a teachable moment fills me with panic that the president will retreat to the Oval Office and craft a soaring piece of oratory, instead of getting on with the humdrum business of firing the stumbling, bumbling members of his own team who, as the saying goes, can’t find their ass with either hand.
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When Obama heralds another “teachable moment,” it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-26/shirley-sherrod-fiasco-why-obama-should-talk-more-about-race/
Excerpt:
Let’s NOT have a conversation about race. The calls for Obama to now make the Shirley Sherrod debacle a teachable moment fills me with panic that the president will retreat to the Oval Office and craft a soaring piece of oratory, instead of getting on with the humdrum business of firing the stumbling, bumbling members of his own team who, as the saying goes, can’t find their ass with either hand.
Excerpt:
When Obama heralds another “teachable moment,” it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.