Obama’s speech, sliced and diced
By Howard Kurtz | Thursday, March 20, 2008 | The Washington Post
“…It was a 37-minute speech that ranged widely across the jagged landscape of race relations, with Barack Obama challenging the media to lift their level of discourse above the inflammatory rhetoric of his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
On the nightly newscasts and in the morning papers, many journalists did try to grapple with the complexity of Obama’s Tuesday address about the roots of racial tension. But when the story hit the Cuisinart of talk-show debate, it got whipped into a single question: Did Obama adequately distance himself from the radioactive reverend?
Not surprisingly, most liberals loved the speech and many conservatives — though not all — lambasted it….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032000964_pf.html
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The simple answer is: no, he did not “adequately distance himself,” especially if the criterion is whether the right wing can and will still be able to use this as cannon fodder if Obama wins the nomination. They can, and they will.
Peace.
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