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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized to Ms Sherrod. Vilsack also offered her another unspecified position with the department.

Vilsack is a national disgrace and he must go.

Shirley Sherrod a Georgia-based Agriculture Department official and wife of Charles Sherrod a former SNCC activist was wrongfully terminated the USDA,a department known for institutional racism.

Alvin Greene U S senate candidate speaks to the people of South Carolina.

U.S. Senate candidates John McCain, Jim Deakin(Tea Party) and J.D.Hayworth exchanged blows Friday night in the first debate for the Republican primary nomination Aug. 24.

This Week in Politics is a hard news look at the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insight into polling tends.

We are talking West coast politics this week.

I am saddened by the NAACP’s claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America’s Constitutional rights are somehow “racists.” The charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand.- Sarah Palin

So let's dispense with the obvious: Most of the opposition to President Obama comes from people who are against his policies, not his race. The Tea Party is motivated primarily by right-wing ideology, not by racism. E.J. Dionne Jr.

Midweek is a digest of politics at the week's midpoint .

Today we cover the NAACP convention in Kansas,the Tea Party in Mason City Iowa,the Oscar Grant case and the latest polls.

This Week in Politics is a hard news look at the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insight into polling tends.

Gov. Joe Manchin has authority -- under state law and the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- to call a special election for later this year to fill Robert C. Byrd's unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, an opinion issued Thursday afternoon by state Attorney General Darrell McGraw concludes.

While we mourn the loss of our son of West Virginia, today we come together to celebrate the outstanding life of a man, the likes of whom we shall never see again. In one of the five books that Senator Byrd authored he said, We must study the great figures of our history and carry them forward in our imaginations as living, breathing presences we can in effect consult on vital issues of the day.Gov. Joe Manchin

1974, April, I'll never forget it. It was a beautiful spring night.

And he gave one of those stem-winding speeches. And then he got up and he played the fiddle, and the crowd went crazy. And you know, in 1974, in a place like Arkansas or West Virginia, playing the fiddle was a whole lot better for your politics than playing the saxophone.Bill Clinton

The Democratic-Farmer-Labour Party candidates for governor; Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, former House minority leader Matt Entenza and former U.S. Senator Mark Dayton Held the first debate of the political season on Twin Cities Public Television in St Paul.