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How did Wright's 'offensive' claim become Hillary's campaign?
Something like six weeks ago, in the run up to the ohio primary, Jeremiah Wright's sermons hit the press. People were offended; Hillary Clinton was heard observing that if she'd been in the church that day, she'd have walked out and quit the congregation.
Yet by Kentucky, the next state over and barely a month later, Wright's 'offensive' belief--that the game is rigged and they ain't gonna let a black man win it--has become Hillary Clinton's campaign. And no one notices or cares.
Which all goes to show: with Wright, it wasn't what he said, its that a black man said it.
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Comments (3)
Simon,
I'll be honest with you. The whole Wright controversy was the my biggest turnoff this election season. Apart fron the remarkable philadelphia speech, nothing and no one was on came out on the right end of the episode. It really put a break on my enthusiasm and offerred me a reality check on how ugly our politics, religon and media can be....ugly.
May 24, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, DO get over it. It goes both ways. Hillary got jumped all over for simply stating the fact that it took LBJ to push through the civil rights legislation of the 1960's. As a prominent black politician said, the Obama campaign is on such a racial hair-trigger that you can't say anything at all. DO stop playing the victim.
May 24, 2008 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
But the victim works so much better, just ask Senator Clinton.
Sorry Otto but when a door opens it really hard not ot walk through it.
May 24, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
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