Goodwin on Obama-Wright
March 23rd, 2008 at 08:14pm Geoff
Happy Easter, everybody! Though there are certainly more important things on this day than politics, Michael Goodwin has an op-ed today which every supporter of Sen. McCain can only hope is verbatim truth. He writes:
Despite [Sen. Clinton’s and Obama’s] frantic efforts to one-up each other on issues large and small, [they] could soon find themselves sharing the same unhappy burden: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Unless one of them can find the courage and the sense to forcefully denounce the black pastor, Clinton and Obama both could end up watching John McCain get elected President.
Without a doubt, the Wright fiasco has been and never will be anything other than a complete negative for the candidacy of Sen. Obama (I’m a bit skeptical of Mr. Goodwin’s contention that it could become a substantial negative for Sen. Clinton). However the certainty with which he and some others believe this affair dooms his candidacy is one step farther than I’m willing to go. I think we have to wait a little while to see whether the issue is of permanence and will yield a concurrent negative on Sen. Obama’s prospects to be our 44th President. The time for certainty has not yet come.
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7 Comments
1. KMorrison | March 24th, 2008 at 9:02 am
I agree if Senator Obama doesn’t address this issue in a more substantive way, it will be an anchor on his candidacy. He still may have time to answer the questions people have, but if he ignores it he has long term problems.
2. hermie | March 24th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Obama made his statement and cannot go further. Otherwise, it would hurt his credibility with the far left.
Also, those in the black community who propped up his speech last week as the defining moment in Obama’s career and the last word on the Wright issue, would feel that their credibility was thrown under the bus along with Obama’s (typical white) grandmother.
3. Betsy | March 24th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
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Things take a slightly different perspective when viewed in the right context.
Whether one agrees with Reverend Wright or not, it seems to me that he has been unfairly demonized to make a media controversy.
Watch Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s 9-11 sermon in context on youtube and decide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ
Jeremiah Wright’s God Damn America in context on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw
4. Jim | March 24th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Obama is doomed if he doesn’t denounce the offender, rather than just the comments. Can you imagine this type of extremism in the White House? SCARY!
5. hermie | March 26th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Obama can’t denounce his close ’spiritual’ advisor. THAT would ruin his carefully crafted ’street cred’.
Instead, the Rev has gone into hiding; cancelling his personal appearances. That way, the media can’t do any more stories on him and Obama. Obama and the campaign honchos are counting on the Rev’s ‘unavailability’ to make the story ‘go away’.
6. Geoff | March 26th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Betsy, the all to familiar “My remarks were taken out of context” defense does not mitigate nor excuse the characteristic racist, bigoted, and anti-American comments of Rev. Wright. They stand on their own repugnance.
7. TH | April 11th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Betsy, are you really going to suggest that ALL of Wright’s malicious quotations were taken out of context? By golly, he must be the most unlucky man in the world to have had SEVERAL comments taken out of a context that actually makes them good!