The Reemergence Of Jeremiah Wright

By Kleinheider Posted on August 13, 2008 at 7:15 am

It’s coming:

In October, Obama’s former pastor, Wright, will publish a new book and hit the road to promote it, an occasion that might well place the topic of Obama’s blackness (along with his patriotism and his candor about what he heard in the pews in all those years at Trinity Church) squarely at the center of the national debate. How Obama handles that moment may determine whether he becomes the next occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

For many Democrats, Obama’s eventual residence there has long seemed a foregone conclusion. But cast your mind forward twenty years and imagine looking back on this election. Would it really seem strange from that vantage point if the first black major-party nominee—a guy with a thin résumé, no foreign-policy credentials in an era scarred by terrorism, a background alien to much of Wonder Bread America, and the full name Barack Hussein Obama—lost? No, it would seem inevitable.

UPDATE: Or not.

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Ties That Bind

By Kleinheider Posted on April 29, 2008 at 3:55 pm

Brendan Loy discusses the complete and utter repudiation of Jeremiah Wright by Barack Obama.

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Sean Braisted
Bill Hobbs
Ned Williams

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