Politics
Race Remains an Issue. So I Say:
‘May God Protect This President’
COMMENTARY / Susan Estrich
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ONSERVATIVE LOUDMOUTHS ARE CROWING THAT Respect? Dignity?
they are driving Barack Obama’s popularity Integrity? Honor?
ratings below 50 percent. They are proud of These people
At a time when the
themselves. They shouldn’t be. Destroying what’s best have none.
about our country isn’t something to brag about. And It’s too bad.
country might be proud
the other shoe is dropping. At a time when of its commitment
“I’ve stopped using Claritin,” a friend said. “Zyrtec the country
to equality, we are
is just as good.” I really don’t know if that’s true. But might be
Zyrtec doesn’t advertise on Fox News. Claritin is, I’m proud of its
torn apart. When the
told, No. 1 on this month’s boycott list. commitment
country so needs to pull
Ousting Van Jones, co-founder of a to equality, we
group organizing the boycotts, won’t slow are torn apart.
together to deal with our
the movement. When a Fox contributor When the
problems, the divisions
for 10 years (me) is told to cut out the country so needs
Claritin, you know it’s spreading. to pull together
just get deeper and uglier.
I recently sat with people who to deal with our
share my commitment to the security problems, the divisions just get deeper and uglier. As
of Israel. Each supported Hillary parents struggle to teach children to live with honor
or McCain. Each has “issues” with in a diffi cult world, powerful men are celebrated for
SUSAN ESTRICHSUSAN ESTRICH
President Obama. They’re worried about acting like the worst kid on the playground.
is a writer, lawyer, and
the economy, terrorism, and, yes, deeply May God protect this president, not only for his
Fox News contributor.
worried about this administration’s sake, but for all of ours.
perceived ambivalence to the
threats faced by Israel. But — and this is my
THE LOYAL OPPOSITION By Sean Delonas
point — despite all that, each one is now an
angry Obama supporter.
The right may be mad as hell, but I’ve got news
for Congressman Joe Wilson and his cronies.
You have turned your natural allies — people
who might’ve agreed with you on substance and
properly raised criticisms — into your enemies.
Not critics, enemies.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
said what many of us have thought. “Boy.” That’s
the subtext here. I don’t use the term lightly. Just
because you disagree with someone who is black
doesn’t make you a racist. John McCain, Cal
Thomas, and Mike Huckabee aren’t racists. These
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