Maureen Dowd:
McCain knows he’s the affirmative action scion of admirals who might not have gotten through Annapolis without being a legacy. Obama didn’t even tell Harvard Law School that he was black on his application.

For those few who contend the McCain campaign did nothing wrong when it ejected the only black reporter from a group of journalists at a campaign stop in Panama City, Fla., I have bad news. Even the candidate’s handlers disagree.
Following his appearance on Countdown with Keith Olbermann they have offered a big ol’ “whoops” […]

Last night on MSNBC’s “Countdown,” Keith Olbermann interviewed Stephen Price, the reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat who was ejected from a John McCain event, an incident Trish wrote about on Sunday.
Update from Trish: Incredibly, one of the first comments on this video at the YouTube site accused Stephen Price of “playing the race card” […]

Negative campaigning is working for John McCain, according to Rasmussen.
This is the first time McCain has enjoyed even a statistically insignificant advantage since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination on June 3
…the race for the White House is tied with Barack Obama and John McCain each attracting 44% of the vote. However, when “leaners” are included, […]

Tallahassee Democrat reporter Stephen Price
The McCain team swears that race was not an issue when a senior reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat was ejected from a campaign rally in Panama City but they can’t supply an alternate explanation.
[Stephen] Price was among at least three other reporters, and the only black reporter, surrounding McCain’s campaign bus […]

In my ongoing crusade to point out that racism exists north and west of the Mason-Dixon Line, I want to commend the police in Jon’s adopted hometown. In case you missed the News of the Weird mention, here it is:
The Los Angeles Police Department announced in April that it had investigated 320 complaints against its […]

Updating Trish’s story from Thursday, “The Hot Item at the Texas Republican Convention,” the Texas Republican Party has moved to distance itself from a vendor who sold buttons at the party’s state convention that bore a racist message about Barack Obama: “If Obama is president … will we still call it The White […]

The amazing part isn’t that the recent Texas Republican Convention featured a vendor selling a pin that said, “If Obama is President…will we still call it The White House?” No, the amazing thing is that someone had to explain to them why this wasn’t a good idea.
“It’s just been crazy,” said Jonathan Alcox, who […]

The title of a story I wrote last week — World’s Largest Swastika, Um, Confederate Flag to Fly in Tampa — upset my old friend and former business partner, Roz.
In its three-and-a-half years of sovereignty, the Confederacy had three national flags, but today’s Confederate flag was not one of them.
A proud, lifelong Southerner, […]