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Senators say Steele on hot seat as GOP chairman
Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham spoke from the war zone Sunday to condemn GOP chairman Michael Steele’s comment that Afghanistan was a “war of Obama’s choosing.” Neither GOP lawmaker, however, was outraged enough to demand Steele’s resignation, as some other Republican have done. Both said from Kabul it was up to Steele to decide [...]
Steele got it Right about Afghanistan, But for the Wrong Reason
Earl Ofari Hutchinson – Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele ticked off President Obama, most Democrats, nearly all Republicans, and much of the military brass. Steele’s sacrilege was to tell a partial truth about the war in Afghanistan. It has become Obama’s war, if not by choice as Steele says, at least by default. Steele’s [...]
GOP chairman Steele: Afghan ‘war of Obama’s choosing’
Republican chairman Michael Steele drew criticism from within his own party Friday, including calls to resign, after saying the 9-year-old commitment of U.S. troops to Afghanistan was a mistaken “war of Obama’s choosing.” As criticism swelled, Steele issued a statement stressing his support for U.S. troops, but he did not acknowledge his factual error about [...]
We Down with GOP – Why Hip-Hop Republican is not an oxymoron
Lenny McAllister, TheRoot.com – As Rick Warren’s Saddleback presidential faith forum approached last Saturday, I ran to the store before it closed to pick up a few items. At the register, the conversation quickly turned from my purchases to politics. The problem with politics, the white male cashier said with more than a hint of [...]
