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Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is also a graduate student at the University of Kansas, completing a doctorate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not modeling species distributions or battling creationists, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
The opinions expressed here are his own, do not reflect the official position of the NCSE. Indeed, older posts may no longer reflect his own official position.
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Category: Policy and Politics
Posted on: June 11, 2008 2:54 AM, by Josh Rosenau
Barack Obama's victory over the nation's racist history may be impressive, but unlike John McCain, he never had to face Rudy Giuliani or Law and Order's Fred Thompson.
Interestingly, Gerson is the author of President Bush's phrase about "the soft bigotry of low expectations."
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