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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP leaders don’t even try to hide that their sudden pile on the immigration reform bandwagon is a blatant, cynical, politically panic driven attempt to bag a few more Latino votes in future elections. The ploy won’t work, and a few of the more thoughtful heads in the GOP know it. The reason has nothing to do with the fact that many see their sudden pirouette on the party’s age old hostility to…

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

An AP poll on election week eve sent up red flags on the Presidential election. The poll found that more Americans expressed anti-black attitudes as well as anti-Hispanic bias than four years ago. Certainly few blacks and Hispanics, and many whites, have any illusions that racism has somehow been magically banished from American life or politics. The relentless battering of Obama and at times First Lady Michelle Obama with nooses, watermelons,…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

At first glance their numbers are pathetic. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein registers 3 percent of the vote nationally. Peace and Freedom Party candidate Roseanne Barr registers about the same. Justice Party presidential candidate, former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is seemingly too insignificant to even rate any numbers count. But the numbers don’t tell the potential danger they pose to…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It’s clear from the series of emails that the White House was informed that the attack on the American embassy in Libya may have been a planned, organized terrorist attack. President Obama’s critics jumped on this again supposedly as smoking gun proof that the White House engaged in a massive cover-up to keep the truth from the American people. But what was the truth? And what proof is there that Obama…

The Hutchinson Report

Hutchinson Report Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson conducted one of the last recorded radio interviews with former Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern in October, 2010 on his syndicated Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour on L.A.’s KTYM Radio. McGovern reflected on his presidential campaign, Watergate, and the questionable tactics used to undermine his presidential bid. But McGovern also…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will hit President Obama during their foreign policy debate with the ancient political zinger, what did he know and when did he know it about Libya. The GOP’s attack line is that Obama botched the response to the terror attack on the American embassy in Libya in part to protect his claim that he destroyed Al-Qaeda, and in greater part to mask his alleged rudderless, muddled Middle East…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There were two telling moments in the Second debate that passed under the media spin radar scope but pointed to something troubling for President Obama. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney evoked God and defense of gun ownership. That was a subtle unstated reaffirmation of a political chit that Romney banks on. And that’s a wipeout of Obama with the rural vote. Then Democratic presidential candidate Barack…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The instant the Supreme Court decided to again tackle affirmative action, President Obama wasted no time. His Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. filed a straight forward brief that was signed off on by five federal agencies and the Justice Department that flatly called on the High Court to not scrap race as a factor in education. The court will decide the issue in that Fisher v. University of Texas the…

   A Hutchinson Report News Special Series

This is the fourth in a week long Hutchinson Report News special series on President Obama's position and actions on the major foreign and domestic policy issues.  The  issue spotlighted today is energy.  Monday we will spotlight immigration.

Develop and Secure America's Energy Resources

We need to deploy American assets, innovation, and technology so that we can safely and responsibly develop more…

 Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The conventional wisdom is that debates are virtually meaningless. Countless studies, surveys and polls have tracked presidential debates and their impact on voters over more than five decades. They looked at the gaffes, the routine ducks and dodges, the gestures, and the physical appearance of the candidates. The Nixon and Kennedy debate in 1960 showed a disheveled and nervous Nixon. In the 1976 debate with Jimmy…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney drew much of the attention and heat for knocking President Obama for allegedly not talking and acting tough enough in response to the Cairo and Libyan embassy attacks.  But Romney’s anti-Obama blast was only the tip of the GOP onslaught. A pack of GOP senators, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, and  the usual suspect legion of cackling right…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Democratic Convention was pitch perfect in publicly showcasing Democratic Party unity. Speaker after speaker made the case why President Obama should get a second term. But there is still the nagging worry among Democrats that more than a few Democrats will be MIA from the polls on November 6. If so, it wouldn’t be the first time it happened.  For years registered Democrats have far outnumbered registered…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, GOP political guru Karl Rove, and the parade of Hispanic and black speakers at the Republican National Convention either said or were testament to one belief and that’s GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney can’t win with just white votes. The rationale is simple he doesn’t have enough of them. The supposed standard break point for GOP presidential candidates to bag the White House is…