ANALYSIS: Questions of race make debates over Obama prickly

Sunday, September 27, 2009 | 3:03 p.m. CDT; updated 5:07 p.m. CDT, Sunday, September 27, 2009

WASHINGTON — For a while, it almost seemed as if President Barack Obama had soothed the angst over race in this country simply by taking office. The focus was on big issues facing a new president — one who just happened to be black.

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