[lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa'

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 20 10:44:26 PST 2007


On Jan 20, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:


> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> His name - Barack Hussein Obama - will do the rest of the work. Is
>> there any way a dark-skinned man with a name like that could ever
>> get elected?
>
> But conversely, for that very reason, if he could, wouldn't it mean
> something?

Yeah, it'd mean the American people could swallow post-political centrism in an all-new wrapper.

Doug



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