I wanted to watch Kentucky's Republican Senate Candidate Rand Paul on Meet The Press today. After a week of sound bytes from and about Dr. Paul and his confrontational appearance on Rachel Maddow's program, I was hoping an interview on the more mainstream Sunday morning staple would allow the candidate to give a clearer impression of his views on civil rights and, specifically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unfortunately, he refused to show up.

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Earlier this month former President Jimmy Carter tried to blame President Obama's problems on his race saying, "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American." Now former President Bill Clinton is "helping" President Obama by dragging out the old vast, right-wing conspiracy accusation. With friends like these, who needs vast conspiracies?

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Making the rounds of most of the Sunday morning news shows, President Obama said requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don't would not be a backhanded tax increase. "I absolutely reject that notion," he said. (source) Maybe he's right. Maybe it's not a tax increase. Maybe extortion is a better description for give me some of what you have or I'll take more of what you have.

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