Posted on 03/25/2008 11:45:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Will the preachings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright continue to be a problem for Barack Obama? The balance of opinion, after everyone has had a chance to digest Obama's March 18 speech, seems to be yes. Or at least that's how I read such varied commentators as ABC News's Jake Tapper, Charles Krauthammer, the New Republic's Dayo Opolade, University of Chicago Prof. Charles Lipson, the New York Daily News's Michael Goodwin, and the international treasure Mark Steyn in the Orange County Register.
In my Creators Syndicate column this week, I look at these comments from a somewhat different view. In Democratic primaries and caucuses, Obama has been winning extraordinary percentages of support from black voters and young voters. His support from black voters is no surprise, though one must remember that back in November 2007, only four months ago, he was running behind Hillary Clinton among blacks in some polls in some contests. His support from young voters--from the millennial generation, to use the terminology of William Strauss and Neal Howe, rose to extraordinary levels much earlier in the cycle--and was reflected not just in polling results but in volunteer efforts and campaign contributions. I cited Morley Winograd and Michael Hais's very interesting, just-published book Millennial Makeover for the proposition that these young voters find racial conflict and anger very off-putting. Obama's portrait of himself as a leader who transcends race has been very attractive, I think, to millennial voters--responsible as much as anything else for their allegiance. To these same voters, the rantings of Reverend Wright are profoundly unattractive. Will the facts that Obama has been a member of Wright's congregation for more than 20 years and has named Wright as his spiritual mentor diminish Obama in millennials' eyes? I don't know, but it's a critically important question. If the answer is yes, then the chance that Democratic superdelegates will award the nomination to Hillary Clinton seems to rise.
You should keep the most up to date list on your profile page, but it would blow your “cover”. ;-P
Perfect! Thanks for the lyrics, too.
At this point, I think Hillary might refuse the nomination. If she takes it she will almost certainly lose big, since she will be seen by many as stealing the nomination. The Democrats won’t nominate her again in 2012. Usually you get just one bite at the apple.
Has there been any word on what the good Rev preaches about gays? Would be funnier than hell to watch that bite them in the ass (as it were) if he’s all intolerant about that as well....
I’m trying to help out with that :)
Jerry should continue to be a HUGE problem for Obamie. No one sits in the same church for 20 years, hearing such hate-filled screeds, without agreeing with most of it.
Perhaps I'm naive, but it was a big shock for me to hear such venomous words coming out of the mouth of someone who claims to be a man of God.
To me this is a HUGE issue. You don't sit in a church for 20 years hearing this kind of crap unless you agree with most of it.
Obamie is vile and must be defeated.
It is a big surprise to most of the rest of us. Call me naive but I had no idea people could/would say that kind of hateful garbage in public without repercussions,or that seemingly respectable people would listen to it. Certainly not from the pulpit of a Christian church full of wealthy influential Chicago elites. I'd never have dreamed it is an actual philosophy with a name that is being preached in black churches all over America in the name of Christianity. This is not Christianity. When the Westboro Baptists or the New Black Panthers say the same thing they are despised and shunned as angry cult kooks.
The church streams their services, so every week new video is going to hit the internet, new pastor notwithstanding. On Easter Sunday the new pastor equated the crucifixion of Jesus Christ with the media treatment of Jeremiah Wright. He called it a "lynching". Vile beyond words.
Maybe it’s already been posted, but a caller (journalist, I believe) to Laura Ingraham this morning, went to private, primarily white and Jewish high school with Wright in Philadelphia. Wright lived a life of privilege in a “castle”-like home. Parents were well-to-do. Mother was principal (or similar) of a hoity-toity private girls school.
So much for B. Hussein’s whining about White’s attitude being understandable after growing up in such a pitiful, miserable manner.
agree
they said clinton was the first black president , they love the clintons now his wife runs and all of a sudden a black man runs and they forget about how they loved clinton.
How many streets in the black areas are named after LBJ
how many are named after lincoln
they forget about what MLK said remember how he said we are all equal
so why do we have special rights for them and affrimative action
I have had to explain to my children that you might get 100% and even though you are honour roll you still might not get that job as some places will choose a minority over you even though they got only c’s
Republicans don’t get many blacks as we treat everyone equal, we don’t seperate people into groups and give them handouts , we believe no matter what colour you are then if you work hard you will be rewarded
the libs believe in seperating people so they can pander to them
It is stupid to say we should have groups or places like the negro fund, black colleges etc.
If we are all equal then why have groups
double standards from the media again
I think it is referred to as CFIT - controlled flight into terrain
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