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Obama offers health plan for small firms
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 08, 2004 01:00pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - St. Louis Post Dispatch |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 7, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a plan to help small businesses get affordable health insurance while his Republican rival questioned comments Obama made last week in saying he wanted to give his opponent an Election Day "spanking."
Keyes, whose rhetoric concerning gay marriage and abortion has stunned Illinois Republican Party leaders, said Obama's use of the word spanking was "colorful language" and is "the language of the master who, when he is displeased with the slave, gives him a whipping."
If he had made such comments, Keyes speculated that the media would accuse him of "some horrible crime against the dignity of my opponent."
"I am sure if I had used this language about my opponent, one of you would have followed up with that kind of question, suggesting that I was showing the utmost insensitivity to the racial heritage of America and to the indignities that black Americans have suffered during the course of that heritage," Keyes said.
Julian Green, a spokesman for Obama, acknowledged that Obama - who is black - made the comments but said assertions that they were racist "are just wildly ridiculous."
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