When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality. Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not. President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.
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KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ... B. B. KING