This was a man who told us “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is a United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America, There is a United States of America.”

This was a man who spoke eloquently of a new day in America. “The time has come,” he said, “to move beyond the bitterness and anger and pettiness that’s consumed Washington; to end the political strategy that’s been all about division. And instead make it about addition; to build...]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600 John Dickerson is the political director at CBS News. It's an important and prestigious position because the political director's observations — on the air and in internal conversations with correspondents and producers — influence how political events, like presidential elections, are covered.

The political director at a mainstream news organization like CBS News has to be impartial, fair and objective.

Now they're going after U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, not because she went on five Sunday news shows and told a fairy tale about why four Americans were killed in Benghazi, but simply because she's a black woman.

Twenty-seven percent of