True to form last week, Mark Davis gave backhanded praise for America's warm welcome of President Barack Obama before laying the smack down for most of his Dallas Morning News Column. Click here to read Davis' "Historic, yes -but also political."
Here are a few passages from Mark's column written from D.C. to give you a little flavor of his premise.
On the occasion of this most joyous of inaugurations, my emotions are mixed, yet not contradictory.
Witnessing the elation of real Americans celebrating the history of the moment was uplifting. I met a Missouri church group that had traveled overnight to arrive in the bracing cold of Washington, only to face the prospect of standing for hours to watch the swearing-in from a mile away. Only the darkest of hearts would be unmoved by their smiles and tears.
While the obliteration of a racial barrier is always good, the inauguration love-fest was first about politics. If you doubt this, imagine how the crowd, and the coverage, would have differed starkly if our first black president had been a Republican.A President Michael Steele or President J.C. Watts would have been pilloried in black America and viewed as some kind of space alien by ...
