From Frank Rich

In his March 28, 2010 New York Times column Rich, discussing the anger over health care legislation, argued that the "conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House--topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman--would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play."

And in his most recent column Rich writes that one of his friends, "a prominent liberal Obama supporter," "wondered if white liberals who voted for Obama expected a 'sweeping Republicans-be-damned kind of agenda' in part--and he emphasized 'in part!'--because 'they expect a black guy to be intemperate, impetuous, impatient' rather than 'measured, deliberate, patient.'"