The Obama of ‘Dreams’
By David Ignatius | Thursday, January 17, 2008 | The Washington Post
“…The past week has illustrated that race is still a campaign issue. The flap about what the Clintons meant in their comments about Martin Luther King Jr. or an Obama ‘fairy tale’ on Iraq is overdone, but the deeper question of Obama’s racial identity is not. He is the first African American with a chance to win the presidency, and many blacks — after initially holding him at a distance — are now treating him as a symbol of racial pride and identity. Amid this heightened sensitivity, the jostling that’s normal in a political campaign is taken as a sign of disrespect….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011603446_pf.html
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Igantius says, “[M]any blacks — after initially holding him at a distance — are now treating him as a symbol of racial pride and identity.”
This is not what I am seeing, either in the blogosphere or in the “real” world. What I am seeing is that now that all the fumes of the campaign rhetoric of “hope, “change” and “turn the page” have dissipated, people are beginning to see that Obama’s actual positions on the issues are not that much different than Hillary’s. And that is allowing many people, including blacks, to see and think more clearly about who Obama actually IS: i.e., what his positions are, and how he might govern. And while he still has alot to offer, they are also realizing that, despite his inspiring rhetoric, the realities of the world and the pragmatism of politics mean that he will not be THAT much different from any other Democratic nominee.
Peace.
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