How much did Wright matter?
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- May
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There’s been lots of talk about how the long primary is hurting the Democrats, Barack Obama, especially.
Over the last weeks, he has been battered by the controversy surrounding his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Turn on Fox News in particular and you’ll catch some commentator repeating one of Wright’s more incendiary comments.
Meanwhile, John McCain has been traveling the country with very little of the media focused on him.
But after last night’s victory, I’m not sure the timing has been a bad thing for Obama. Could the sting be out of the Wright relationship?
His opponents will continue to bring it up. Karl Rove said as much last night. But they might need a fresh line of attack.
As for Obama, last night he turned the attacks back on the attackers.
“Yes, we know what’s coming,” he said. “I’m not naive.”
“The attempts to play on our fears and exploit our differences, to turn us against each other for political gain, to slice and dice this country into red states and blue states, blue-collar and white-collar, white, black, brown, young, old, rich, poor.”
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I don’t see how Obama is different from any other politician.
He talks about others trying to sow division, yet he maintained his relationship with Rev. Wright for 20 years. And what about his friendship with a man who put bombs in the Pentagon and Capitol Building?
To the extent that Obama has a problem with these issues, he’s brought many of them on himself with his own poor judgment.
Because he is a Muslim!!!