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POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ALL SMILES AND WHEN COUNTRY WENT RIGHT. Terry Samuel gives us yet another reason why everyone seems to love Barack Obama:
Heart-warning, inclusive, all-American. The bad, racial-hatred part of the story never comes. Obama's emphasis is not on the horrors of the past injustice but on a kind of human decency that transcended it. And it is exactly this lack of grievance in Obama's politics that has made some call his "blackness" into question.Also, ethnomusicologist J. Lester Feder explains that country music and conservatism haven't always gone hand-in-hand. In the pre-Nixon era, the Dixie Chicks would have fit right into the country music mainstream.--The Editors
