Obama Says Sorry
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At the White House, losing a game of phone tag
The White House switchboard -- able to conjure up Santa Claus at a moment's notice for a young Caroline Kennedy -- is famous for its ability to track down anyone, anywhere, anytime. But last week, both the White House and the secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, were unable to muster that switchboard magic to reach Shirley Sherrod, the Department...
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President Obama and the race issue
It was exactly one year ago on Thursday that President Obama plunged into a thicket of racial politics by declaring that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home. Suddenly, the president whose election suggested the promise of a postracial future w...
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Shirley Sherrod gets biggest 'I'm sorry' from Obama
Flooded with apologies from everywhere, Shirley Sherrod got the biggest "I'm sorry" of all Thursday -- from a contrite President Barack Obama, who personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back. (Buzz on Twitter)Sherrod, who was forced to resign on Monday because of racial comments she made at an NAACP gathering, was asked by Obama to rejoin...
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At the White House, losing a game of phone tag
The White House switchboard -- able to conjure up Santa Claus at a moment's notice for a young Caroline Kennedy -- is famous for its ability to track down anyone, anywhere, anytime. But last week, both the White House and the secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, were unable to muster that switchboard magic to reach Shirley Sherrod, the Department...
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President Obama and the race issue
It was exactly one year ago on Thursday that President Obama plunged into a thicket of racial politics by declaring that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home. Suddenly, the president whose election suggested the promise of a postracial future w...
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Shirley Sherrod gets biggest 'I'm sorry' from Obama
Flooded with apologies from everywhere, Shirley Sherrod got the biggest "I'm sorry" of all Thursday -- from a contrite President Barack Obama, who personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back. (Buzz on Twitter)Sherrod, who was forced to resign on Monday because of racial comments she made at an NAACP gathering, was asked by Obama to rejoin...
