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Pastor's words show division is a comfort zone for many in US



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Published Date: 01 May 2008
By ALEX MASSIE
Obama's campaign may want to unite Americans but race is an issue on both sides of the colour bar, writes ALEX MASSIE.
WHEN Barack Obama began his campaign to become the next president of the United States, Hillary Clinton's front-runner status seemed so secure that Obama's candidacy seemed presumptuous or, as he puts it himself, "improbable".

So much so, in fact,...



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  • Last Updated: 30 April 2008 8:13 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Barack Obama
 
1

Sierra Foothills Scot,

Diamond Springs 01/05/2008 01:55:29
Obama's denunciation of Pastor Wright is a little late. He spent 20 years complacently listening to Obama's paranoid venom, and only now denounces it.
2

Sierra Foothills Scot,

Diamond Springs 01/05/2008 01:58:41
Woops! That should be "listening to WRIGHT'S paranoid venom". Sorry.
3

Itchy,

01/05/2008 09:26:59
Obama is finding out that you can't play the race card and then disregard it when it suits you.

The irony is that if America votes for McCain ahead of him, the Republican voters will be denounced as racist when McCain has not mentioned colour in his campaign.
4

Frank Brady,

01/05/2008 18:02:47
"No wonder some leading African-American voices wondered if Obama was actually "black enough" to be the vessel for their dreams and hopes. Wright changed the question to, "What if he's too black?" hits Obama's problem right on the head. At the beginning of his campaign rascals like Jackson and Sharpton thought he wasn't black enough. Now, white, working class ethnic voters (one third of the Democrat Party) not only think he's too black, but are angry at his academic-elitist and far-left comments about "bitterness and people clinging to God and guns."

It will be interesting to see what position the influential NAACP people from Detroit, etc. and the black preachers who applauded Wright enthusiastically at the National Press Club take (starting this Sunday) on this broken relationship between the preacher and the johnny-come-lately politician.

With the Democratic National Committee deciding what to do with Florida and Michigan on the same day Wright speaks again, this time at his "retirement" party at Trinity church, i.e. May 31, and the primary season ending a few days later, that should be an interesting few days.

Whoever is the Democratic candidate in November, the combination of Nader votes with a proportion of the defeated Democratic nominee's supporters either not voting or even supporting McCain, should ensure the latter's election. And prove that old adage--the Democrats never miss an opportunity...to miss an opportunity.



 

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