MB Civic

By Derrick Z. Jackson | Saturday, April 5, 2008 | The Boston Globe

“…’…But I think that what people want is common sense. They don’t appreciate whether it’s coming from my former pastor or from talk radio hosts sensationalizing the issue, overstating the issue, using it for political purposes. . . . There are obviously some wounds that have to be healed and there’s some very concrete issues that have to be dealt with in terms of disparities in healthcare, or income or joblessness, legacies of the past. So we don’t want to paper those issues over. . . . My speech tried to avoid some of the simplicities that somehow widen division instead of bringing people together.’

For the moment, the complex campaign of Obama appears to have avoided being sunk by the simplicities….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/04/05/obamas_complex_campaign_answers_the_call?mode=PF