What a day!!! Mark down March 18. In the same 24-hour period, we dealt with some of the country's fundamental issues: racism, guns, sex and (oh, yeah) five years of war in Iraq.
Since glossing over color just wasn't working, thanks to his pastor, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) decided it was time to confront our country's racial antagonism head on. It's fair to say it was a graceful description of an awkward problem that, despite progress, still embitters us.
For evidence of that progress, by the way, look to Albany, N.Y., where another African-American politician was dealing with a problem that had nothing to do with being black. This was an even more primal issue: adultery.
New Gov. David Patterson (D) and his wife Michelle began their lives as New York's first couple by acknowledging that in the past they had been an unfaithful couple — that each had been involved in affairs with others during their marriage. They were hoping, they said, to put their pasts in the past. Wouldn't that be terrific.
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