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3 Campaign of healing needed By James Thindwa, April 22, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama offers the possibility of racial healing. Some Republican strategists will try not to let that happen. They hope to win in November by playing on racial divisiveness. It s one of the only issues they have left. For years, the GOP won elections on a platform that stressed moral values, a balanced budget, small government and national security. But thanks to sex scandals involving Sens. Larry Craig and David Vitter and Rep. Mark Foley, the GOP cannot run effectively on moral values this time. President Bush, for his part, has turned the party of budgetary discipline into the party of profligate spending. Any campaign against tax-and-spend liberals will strain credulity among taxpayers facing a $9 trillion national debt. What s more, the Iraq War s obscene cost in lives and money and our standing in the world has tarnished the GOP s national security credentials. With the economy cooling into a recession, with people losing their homes and their jobs, even as the price of gas, food and health care skyrocket, this election year is shaping up to a disaster for Republicans. One of the few remaining strategic options, then, is the race card. They ve played it before, and they can play it again. In 1980, Ronald Reagan launched his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., notorious as the place where three civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were murdered in June Reagan endorsed states rights in his campaign speech. Reagan also caricatured welfare recipients as lazy, Cadillac-driving black women. He told a story of a woman who was arrested for welfare fraud: "She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards and is collecting veteran's benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands. Reagan repeated this story over and over despite evidence that no such woman ever existed. In 1988, Republican presidential candidate George H. W. Bush tried to scare white voters by running television commercials about a black inmate convicted of raping a white woman while on furlough. The notorious Willie Horton ads are largely credited with destroying Michael Dukakis s presidential campaign. Receive a full year of the pr versions of The Progressive only $ First Name Address Last Nam City Zip Code State The Progressive Poin Wrong Man for Afgh MP3 Download PODCAST Gingrich Should Go MP3 Download PODCAST The Progressive Rad Austin. Robert Jen My guest to Jensen, prof journalism a University o MP3 Download PODCAS Return to the 1930s Part I: Lawless Big Business Controlled to Save Democra Ickes, Secretary of the Inter 1938 Part II: Individualism Seen Phase, By Theodore Dreiser,

4 Part III: Human Wreckage: A Plea for Federal Relief Part IV: The Long Plan for Recovery, By Senator Huey P. Long, April 1, 1933 Part V: Businessmen, Then and Now, By Scott Nearing, February 3, 1934 Part VI: Roosevelt Is No Socialist, Norman Thomas Assures Al Smith, February 15, 1936 Part VII: Lawless Big Business Must Be Controlled to Save Democracy, By Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, January 8, 1938 From The Progressive magazine» Nationalize the Banks By Matthew Rothschild, March 2009 Issue One Treasury official after another is doing somersaults on a wire to distract us from the obvious: We need to nationalize many of the banks, not save them as private entities. Naomi Klein Interview By Matthew Rothschild, February 2009 Issue We don t have a right to be disappointed by Obama, says the author of The Shock Doctrine. To Kill or Not to Kill By Tyler E. Boudreau, February 2009 Issue A former Marine who served in Iraq reveals the cold-heartedness of today's corps. Latin America Breaks Free By Benjamin Dangl, February 2009 Issue Washington no longer calls the shots.

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