For the University of Chicago’s Harold Pollack, this past weekend’s commemoration yielded a “fairly astonishing” juxtaposition of President Obama’s “largeness of spirit” and Republican apathy, or worse. In a Washington Monthly blog post, Pollack argued that the low GOP turnout for “an event sacred to African-Americans sent an unavoidable message: These are not our people...Such discomfort with a widening circle of ‘others’ still works for many in the congressional GOP, especially in non-presidential years. On a national level, it is increasingly out of step with a changing society.”
Harold Pollack
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<p>In a one-line blog post, "<a href="http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/08/05/health-reform-euthanasia-and-... target="_blank">Health Reform: Euthanasia and Other Rumors</a>," Time magazine's Karen Tumulty pointed readers to a blog post at The New Republic's Web site set on "<a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/08/04/will-you... target="_blank">Exposing the Euthanasia Scare</a>" that has cropped up in the debate over health care reform:</p><blockquote>Harold Pollack dispenses with them (and their sources) <a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/08/04/will-you... failed to mention the liberal bent of either TNR or Dr. Pollack (Ph.D., not M.D.), which would have been helpful considering her terse blog post practically amounted to an unqualified stamp of approval of Pollack's August 4 item.</p><p>Albeit in kinder, gentler language, Pollack posited that opposition to socialized medicine among American senior citizens was due to racism, xenophobia, and homophobia (emphasis mine):</p><blockquote>