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Saturated everything as perhaps never before. that passage from a recently published piece by jonathan chate in new york magazine has set off a fresh round of debate within liberaldom about president obama's orientation towards race, to an extent to which race plays a role in relation to him and his policies. being president has a lot of components, one of which due to the peculiars and particularities of american culture is to bring the good news, even when delivering the bad news. the great depression is upon us. the good news is we have nothing to fear but fear itself. the president's life ...

Chate who responded by defending the idea that culture is, at least in part, responsible for the perpetuation of african-american poverty. he wrote, it would be bizarre to image that centuries of slavery followed by systemic terrorism, segregation, discrimination, a legacy wealth gap, and so on did not leave a cultural residue that itself became an impediment to success. coates then responded, quote, chate believes it's bizarre to think otherwise. i think it's bizarre that he doesn't bother to see his argument as if it's actually true. oppression might well produce a culture of failure, it mig...

Welcome back to "hardball." the romney campaign sounding calm, cool and confident with 13 days to go. since the first debate romney has caught president obama in most national polls but is romney the front-runner as he's projecting himself to be right now and some in the media are now painting him? this morning politico's mike allen threw cold water on the growing conventional wisdom. "to be president you have to win states not debates and mitt romney has a problem. romney has not put away a single one of the must have states, president obama remains the favorite because he only needs to win a...

He refuses to accept the role of loser. what do you get? one very strong possibility is that you get trump declaring a third-party run. remember, we are gaining at the scenario where trump entered the race without much planning. more as a way to keep the media circus going from one day to the next rather than a long-term strategy. he bolts the party, claiming some slight and keeps the circus going all through november. jonathan chate joins us. and david from senior editor at the "atlantic." trump going all through november, those are chilling words for any republican who has watched this race....

Current see," whose mission is transcending race with a culture free of government dependency. as coates was pointing out, even black liberals tend to conflate pathology. and here is the president announcing the my brother's keeper initiative in february, a program designed to remove the structural obstacles to success for young men of color. >> we need to invest in our schools and make college more affordable and government has a role to play. and yes, we feed to encourage fathers to stick around and remove the barriers to marriage and talk openly about things like responsibility and faith an...