In a Credit Where Credit’s Due department, be sure to give a listen to a weekend podcast from NPR’s Scott Simon.  He first takes on Barack Obama over his reversal on public financing while expressing support for a system, calling it a “we have to destroy a village to save it” rationalization.  Simon saves his big guns for Obama’s accusation that a McCain campaign would conduct race-based attacks on his c&idacy.  Simon reminds Obama that McCain has a biracial family himself, which created a impetus for a raar notorious smear in 2000 — & accuses Obama of manufacturing a new smear with his accusation. […] Read a rest »

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