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To: LindyBill who wrote (309051)	6/8/2009 1:47:47 PM
From: Peter van Steennis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793891

Lindy: I have not seen much about Sonia Sotomayor's court decisions, her writings (other than her racial speeches), her reasoning, etc. Have there been some and I missed them? Thanks Peter

To: LindyBill who wrote (309051)	1/1/2010 3:42:40 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793891

Chris Stirewalt/Washington Examiner, comments on Shelby Steele's piece on Obama: Chris Stirewalt Political Editor 01/01/10 11:28 AM EST washingtonexaminer.com Dec. 30 Shelby Steele -- Obama and Our Post-Modern Race Problem Wow. Steele, who is among the most gifted dissectors of American culture, has written what might argue to be the definitive Obama piece of 2009. Steele argues that American attitudes about race, which are at the core of Obama’s success, have also left the president ill-equipped to do his job. It’s very heady stuff. The fact that Steele, who is black, is the first notable writer to contrast the fall of Tiger Woods to the struggles of Barack Obama further illustrates his point about the intentional blindness racial guilt has caused in America. “[Obama] he has come forward in American politics by emptying himself of strong convictions, by rejecting principled stands as "ideological," and by promising to deliver us from the "tired" culture-war debates of the past. He aspires to be "post-ideological," "post-racial" and "post-partisan," which is to say that he defines himself by a series of "nots"—thus implying that being nothing is better than being something. He tries to make a politics out of emptiness itself. But then Mr. Obama always knew that his greatest appeal was not as a leader but as a cultural symbol. He always wore the bargainer's mask—winning the loyalty and gratitude of whites by flattering them with his racial trust: I will presume that you are not a racist if you will not hold my race against me. Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan and yes, Tiger Woods have all been superb bargainers, eliciting almost reverential support among whites for all that they were not—not angry or militant, not political, not using their moral authority as blacks to exact a wage from white guilt Steele's column: online.wsj.com