Obama's Rationale for Bid in Jeopardy Over Wright

[billbuckhead]

Opinion
Obama's Rationale for Bid in Jeopardy Over Wright

Tom Bevan
Tue Mar 18, 9:30 AM ET
Early yesterday afternoon word broke that Barack Obama would be giving a "major speech" in Phildadelphia today addressing "the larger issue of race in this campaign." The hasty announcement underscores the treacherous political ground Obama finds himself on just days after ABC News ran a four-minute segment highlighting some of the hate-filled language of his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
So far, Obama's attempts to squelch the controversy surrounding Reverend Wright's incendiary rhetoric have failed. Obama will take another stab at trying to defuse the issue today, and whether he succeeds or not will depend on what he says and how it's received by the media and the public.

The problem Obama faces is simple but stark: in announcing his bid for the White House, the junior Senator from Illinois promised a "new kind of politics" built around a post-racial and, to a lesser degree, a post-partisan unity and harmony. Over the course of the campaign he has also asserted repeatedly that experience is less important than judgment - a claim he backs up in every instance by referring to his 2002 speech against Iraq.

But after this week's revelation about Wright, Obama's 20-year relationship with the pastor calls into question his promise of a post-racial era in American politics and his judgment, thus undermining the two core rationales of his candidacy.
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[jgraz]

1. Seriously? Tom Fucking Bevan?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Bevan

I really hope you are as ignorant as you seem, because the only other possibility is that you're a right-wing shill.

[Exilednight]

3. You beat me to it.

[billbuckhead]

5. Blame the messenger when you can't handle the truth

It's ABC News.

[jgraz]

8. No, I blame you for posting his filth on our forum.

If you want to spew right-wing propaganda, at least take the time to write your own.

[islandmkl]

2. WTF?...did yesterday not happen?

like going to the news rack and reading headlines about shit you already thought you knew happened...

other than delusional dreams...and all that groundhog day horseshit...

did your finger get stuck on 'Post Message' for 36 hours or so??

[jgraz]

6. You just described the conservative mindset in four words: "yesterday did not happen."

A philosophy to which the OP apparently subscribes.

[islandmkl]

4. oh yeah...you mis-spell your name, too......

[jefferson_dem]

7. You lose.

Let it go.

[Nexus7]

9. Still no reply on-topic from Obama camp

Let's see, so far, they've attacked the author of the original piece, and the author who posted here. They haven't yet addressed the mismatch between Obama's rhetoric and his actions, such as taking himself and his impressionable children to Wright's sermons.

Like in Spritzer's case, if you're going to dole out the sanctimony, you'd better be clean as driven snow. Not go on the national stage and lecture us about race, 40 years after MLK & Lyndon Johnson.

[jgraz]

11. That's cuz most of us have this knuckle-dragger on ignore

Which is where he's going for me as soon as I post this.

[FARAFIELD]

10. Thats it

TOm BEvan? Do you hate OBama so much you have to quote Hannity and Bevan, you know just for that Im not voting for Hillary if she is the nominee, you guys are Blowing it for the party, delivering right wing talking points. Just so you know Hillary is the right wings BIGGEST talking point, other than the Big DOg, which means she would get it harder than OBAMA, so there

[JackORoses]

12. You need to bold the word "Opinion" you might even prepend "Shitty" to that, as well