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<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Capehart - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15772.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Capehart]]></description><category domain="15772">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Difference Between Dolezal &amp; Jenner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/06/15/caitlyn-jenner-and-rachel-dolezal-clash-of-identity-and-authenticity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one should be shocked that Caitlyn Jenner got pulled into the race-bending controversy involving Rachel Dolezal. Jenner was born Bruce and now identifies as female and is living as a transgender woman. Dolezal was born white and now identifies as African American and living as a black woman.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Bad Race Relations Are a Good Thing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/05/06/why-61-percent-with-a-negative-view-of-race-relations-is-a-good-thing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times-CBS News poll on race relations is grim. &ldquo;Public perceptions of race relations in America have grown substantially more negative&rdquo; since the unrest over the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore last month, the paper reports. After the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., last year, 44 percent had a negative view of race relations. Today, 61 percent do. It&rsquo;s easy to be discouraged by this. But I am kind of encouraged by this poll because the folks surveyed, I believe, have a more clear-eyed view of race relations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Hands Up, Don't Shoot&quot; Built on a Lie]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/16/lesson-learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The late evening of Aug. 9, 2014, I couldn&#194;&#146;t sleep. I was due to substitute-anchor MSNBC&#194;&#146;s &#194;&#147;UP with Steve Kornacki&#194;&#148; and should have been asleep. But after looking at my Twitter feed and reading the rage under #Ferguson, I felt compelled to type a reaction to the killing of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson. Tying the shooting to the inane whine of certain politicians about a &#194;&#147;war on whites,&#194;&#148;  I decried the next morning the death of yet another unarmed black man at the hands of a white police officer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fallacy of a &quot;Post-Racial&quot; Society]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/12/29/the-fallacy-of-a-post-racial-society/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All I want for the new year is the banishment of &ldquo;post-racial&rdquo; anything from all social and political discourse. From its first utterance in 2008 to herald the rise of Barack Obama, the concept was misguided and delusional. That giddy moment when Obama won the bitterly fought South Carolina primary and the audience chanted &ldquo;Race doesn&rsquo;t matter&rdquo; is but a distant memory. News, polls and studies that emerged in the last half of 2014 made it painfully plain that race still matters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crisis of Leadership &amp; Confidence in Ferguson]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/11/24/the-crisis-of-leadership-and-confidence-in-ferguson-mo/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. The unarmed 18-year-old&rsquo;s body laid in the street for more than four hours. Ever since that fateful Saturday afternoon, there have been protests about the way Brown was treated and the way African Americans in general have been treated in the St. Louis suburb. The most dramatic and revealing were those that erupted the evening of Aug. 13. Demonstrators were met with a militarized police force that lobbed tear gas at them, shot rubber bullets at them and arrested journalists. But in the chaotic nighttime scene three people were missing: Gov. Jay Nixon (D), Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Make Mistake Running from Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/11/03/democrats-mistake-running-away-from-obama-or-staying-home/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What happens when Democrats run away from President Obama? They completely ignore the flood of good news that should help them make the case for themselves and the president&rsquo;s administration. Holding Obama at arm&rsquo;s length might rub key members of the Obama coalition (read, black voters) the wrong way. That said, if those voters use such political expediency by scared Democrats as an excuse to punish them by staying home they will be doing exactly what Republicans want them to do.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Adrian Peterson Must Beat His Upbringing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/09/15/adrian-peterson-must-move-past-his-upbringing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The indictment of Minnesota Vikings football player Adrian Peterson on charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child over the weekend led NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley to make a rather bold (and broad) cultural pronouncement. &ldquo;Whipping &mdash; we do that all the time,&rdquo; Charles Barkley said yesterday on CBS. &ldquo;Every black parent in the south is going to be in jail under those circumstances &hellip; We spank kids in the south.&rdquo; While I agreed with the NBA Hall of Famer, I&rsquo;m also grateful that times have changed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 1 Person Who Can Save the NFL: Condi Rice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/09/08/condi-rice-the-one-person-who-could-save-the-nfl/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice made a startling admission to the New York Times in 2002. The then-national security adviser to President George W. Bush said it was &ldquo;absolutely right&rdquo; that she wanted to be commissioner of the National Football League. This was no joke. Rice was serious, but she wanted it to be known that she wouldn&rsquo;t want to do it &ldquo;before Paul Tagliabue is ready to step down.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cantor Loss a Wake-Up Call for Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/06/12/cantor-loss-a-wake-up-call-for-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP establishment lurched hard to the right when three-term conservative Sen. Bob Bennett (Utah) went down in defeat at the state party convention in 2010. Four years later, a little-known tea party challenger with pocket change for campaign cash took out a member of the House leadership who harnessed and nurtured the anger of the far right. Cantor was as loyal to tea party concerns and priorities as he was to his omnipresent Gucci loafers. And yet his fealty didn&rsquo;t protect him from the tiger he rode. But Democrats celebrating the Cantor calamity better check their schadenfreude. There will be more Brats in Congress if they don&rsquo;t show up at the polls in November, especially...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Tolerance for &quot;Discomfort&quot; Over Michael Sam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/05/13/no-tolerance-for-discomfort-over-michael-sam-or-the-kiss/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you do live television as much as I do, you get used to being ready to talk about anything at a moment&rsquo;s notice. Once, I was told the topic would be the economy, but the topic switched to Afghanistan 30 seconds before air. Or you get so used to the rhythms of particular shows that even the slightest variation can throw you off. The latter happened to me last night on MSNBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Last Word&rdquo; during a discussion with guest anchor Ari Melber and William Rhoden, a columnist for the New York Times, about the cultural significance of the draft of Michael Sam and the kiss seen &rsquo;round the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Much-Deserved Victory Lap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/04/01/7-1-million-reasons-for-obamacare-victory-lap/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;re darned right President Obama and Vice President Biden took a victory lap in the Rose Garden to celebrate the success of the Affordable Care Act.Four years after the bill was passed by Congress, signed by the president and declared &ldquo;a big f&mdash;ing deal&rdquo; by Biden, 7.1 million people signed up for health coverage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Paul: Plight of Black Men Isn't Cultural]]></title>
							<link>http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/paul-ryan-urban-plight-isnt-cultural</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dear Congressman Ryan.It&rsquo;s me, Jonathan.By now, you know we know you knew exactly who you were referring to when you were talking about those men in the &ldquo;inner city.&rdquo; Your congressional colleague, Barbara Lee of California, made it plain when she said:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trust in Congress Gallups to Single Digits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/12/17/trust-in-congress-gallups-to-single-digits/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gallup&rsquo;s new trustworthiness poll has everyone tittering over the low standing of Congress. Just 8 percent of those surveyed Dec. 5 &ndash; Dec. 8 rated the ethical standards of members of Congress &ldquo;very high&rdquo; or &ldquo;high.&rdquo; This shameful low puts them one point behind car salespeople.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Might as Well Be Dead]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/12/02/the-gop-might-as-well-be-dead/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Growth and Opportunity Project, aka &ldquo;the autopsy,&rdquo; was heralded as the Republican Party&rsquo;s clear-eyed assessment of its 2012 presidential defeat. Autopsies are done on dead things, and ever since its March 2013 release, the GOP has done everything possible to stay dead.The Republican Party is dead to African Americans. Not that there was much of pulse to begin with. Romney won 6 percent of the black vote to 93 percent for Obama, which isn&rsquo;t surprising since Romney was looking to unseat the nation&rsquo;s first black president. But it is also not surprising considering all of the voter suppression efforts around the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Out to Destroy Country]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/11/20/the-gop-is-out-to-destroy-the-country/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, the headline is rather hyperbolic. It&#194;&#146;s as over-the-top as some of President Obama&#194;&#146;s most unhinged critics, who believe he is running the nation without care or concern for the Constitution. But when you look at the actions of the Republican Party, particularly its members in Congress, my headline seems appropriate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lesson for Democrats: Bet on Black]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/11/08/lesson-for-democrats-in-mcauliffe-win-bet-on-black/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The news is filled with stories about nervous Democrats up for reelection who are worried that the terrible roll-out of HealthCare.gov will force them to involuntarily spend more time with their families. And that&rsquo;s a valid concern. But Terry McAuliffe&rsquo;s win in Old Dominion shows that involuntary early retirement can be forestalled if African American voters are fired up. A truism of American politics is that turnout in off-year elections is low. A corollary is that African Americans especially won&rsquo;t show up at the voting booth. This belief bled over into the 2012 presidential election because Republicans thought black voters would stay home on Election Day, disillusioned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Christie Meet President Giuliani]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/11/07/president-christie-meet-president-giuliani/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reveling in victory, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) used his election night speech to lecture his petulant party. He talked about reaching across the aisle, compromise, going to places where it isn&rsquo;t comfortable. All these  things are anathema to the agitated base of the GOP, but are recognized by more clear-eyed Republicans as a roadmap to electoral success at the national level.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Obamacare Sabotage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/11/04/decrying-gop-sabotage-of-healthcare-gov/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rollout of the federal health-care exchange under the Affordable Care Act has been a grade-A debacle. There is absolutely no denying it. And The Post&rsquo;s big Sunday story on the combination of poor planning and political timidity puts the entire mess into perspective. Knowing that President Obama relentlessly admonished his team that &ldquo;if the Web site doesn&rsquo;t work, nothing else matters&rdquo; makes it all the more infuriating.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Big Salute to Govt &amp; Its Workers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/10/17/obamas-big-salute-to-government-and-its-workers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As is his custom, President Obama saved the most powerful part of his address to the nation about the government shutdown and the lifting of the federal debt limit for the end. That&#194;&#146;s not to say that the rest of his message outlining the three things &#194;&#147;we agree on and get some stuff done&#194;&#148; wasn&#194;&#146;t good. But his words on the role of government, particularly government workers, were superb.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Debt Ceiling Insanity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/09/16/obamacare-the-debt-ceiling-and-gop-insanity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A statistic in the latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll drives me nuts. It&#194;&#146;s 44 percent. Here&#194;&#146;s the question: &#194;&#147;Do you think Congress should or should not raise the debt ceiling? If you don&#194;&#146;t know enough to have an opinion, please just say so.&#194;&#148; The 44 percent who said the nation&#194;&#146;s borrowing limit should not be raised should have responded &#194;&#147;I don&#194;&#146;t know&#194;&#148; &#194;&#151; because then they&#194;&#146;d be telling the truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[August a Good Month for Liberals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/09/03/obamas-liberal-august/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One year ago today, I marveled at President Obama&rsquo;s good fortune of getting through August without a calamity for the first time in his presidency. The same can&rsquo;t be said for this August, what with the tangled situation (of his making) in Syria and all. But August 2013, particularly Aug. 29, was a phenomenal month for liberals who worry the president couldn&rsquo;t care less about the issues they care about.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Standing Up to an Anti-Gay Minister]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/08/13/standing-up-to-anti-gay-animus-from-the-pulpit/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I took a stand against religion-based anti-gay bigotry while sitting in the front pew for my aunt&rsquo;s funeral in North Carolina over the weekend. She had lived in Raleigh, but she was laid to rest at a Baptist church in her birthplace of Severn, N.C. Her minister and fellow church members drove up for the solemn occasion. While her pastor delivered kind words about her work and dependability at the church bookstore, his guest eulogy gave way to a harsh sermon about who can and cannot get into the kingdom of Heaven. Now, I can&rsquo;t speak for the whores, drunkards, adulterers and thieves who might have been present, but this openly gay man was enraged.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Obama to Talk on Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/07/17/making-the-case-for-obama-to-talk-about-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By now, you know I have no patience for the crowd that demands President Obama champion a &ldquo;Black Agenda.&rdquo; And that impatience bubbled forth on MSNBC this week when Kelli Goff hammered Obama for not speaking out more forcefully about the racial aspect of the George Zimmerman trial. A lot of the complaints lack political nuance and an appreciation of the particular burden on Obama as the first black president, and they border on the naive considering our current jacked-up political process.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Race &amp; the Zimmerman Trial]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/07/12/race-and-the-george-zimmerman-trial/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michelle Right to Not Put Up With Being Heckled]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/06/05/the-heckler-and-flotus-were-right/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First lady Michelle Obama wasn&rsquo;t having it &mdash; and I don&rsquo;t blame her. Lesbian activist Ellen Sturtz wasn&rsquo;t having it &mdash; and, well, I don&rsquo;t blame her, either.Obama was speaking passionately about children at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Washington last night when Sturtz heckled her about her husband&rsquo;s lack of action on ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) federal employees. Obama was not pleased. In the audio of the incident, you hear the first lady say, &ldquo;One of the things that I don&rsquo;t do well is this.&rdquo; According to the reporter&rsquo;s pool report, she &ldquo;left the lectern and moved over...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Better Listen to Colin Powell]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/01/14/the-gop-better-listen-to-colin-powell/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Colin Powell spoke truth to the Republican establishment when he said yesterday on &ldquo;Meet the Press&rdquo;  that &ldquo;[t]here is a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party.&rdquo;The former secretary of state under President George W. Bush who endorsed President Obama twice was asked by moderator David Gregory whether the Republican Party left him or has he left it. Unashamedly declaring himself &ldquo;still a Republican,&rdquo; the retired four-star general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, &ldquo;I think the Republican Party is having an identity problem.&rdquo;If the GOP hopes to pull itself out of the political quicksand in which it finds itself,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The NRA's Insulting Response to Newtown]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One week after the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the National Rifle Association&#194;&#146;s  Wayne LaPierre took to a microphone to deliver a defensive, crackpot speech that didn&#194;&#146;t fully grasp the impact of the murder of 20 first-graders at the hands of a madman with an assault rifle. Everyone was to blame. The media and their corporate owners. The political class in Washington. Video games. Violent movies. The mentally ill. But at no point did he point his finger back at the NRA, the one institution that has made it difficult, if not impossible, to bring about common-sense firearms legislation in the country.LaPierre&#194;&#146;s address was delivered from a hermetically sealed alternate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I'm Worried About the Republicans]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Given my lengthy paper trail in favor of President Obama, it might strike folks funny that I&rsquo;m worried about the Republican Party. I&rsquo;m worried that it won&rsquo;t settle the internal forces that have turned it into a regional, reactionary party that looks nothing like the rest of the country, worried that the GOP has policy positions out of touch with the rest of the country. I&rsquo;m worried that the tone coming from some Republicans won&rsquo;t make their party any more attractive to the very voters it needs to survive.Plenty has been written about the demographic demolition of the GOP. African Americans, Latinos, gay men and lesbians, young people in general and young women...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Is No Party for Minorities]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican meltdown over its decisive loss at the ballot box in the presidential election has been a sight to behold. Karl Rove flipped out on Fox News. Mary Matalin had a near-meltdown on CNN. And, according to The Post, the GOP has begun &ldquo;an exhaustive review to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s a waste of time and (more) money. Everyone in the reality-based community knows what went wrong.The coalition President Obama put together in 2008 came out big for him again in 2012. A big chunk of the reason is because African Americans, Latinos, young people, women and more than a few &ldquo;white guys&rdquo; like him. But the intemperate remarks of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise of Hate in the Age of Obama]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Capehart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While folks were obsessing over polls that showed their preferred presidential candidate being up or down, I obsessed over a poll that revealed a troubling rise in hatred among the American people. According to a poll for the Associated Press, anti-African American and anti-Hispanic attitudes have grown since the election of the nation&rsquo;s first black president.I&rsquo;m not one of those people who thought sending Barack Obama to the White House would exorcise the nation&rsquo;s racial demons, that centuries of strife and tribulation would simply melt away with one historic election. But I did hope that some remnants of the the wave of good feeling that swept over the United States...]]></description>
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