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Originally Posted by EE-BO
It is a new thing in the general media with this election. Ann Coulter likes to bring up race and voting blocks all the time, but in the past this has not been a staple of general media reporting, or even among many advocates/pundits.
I share your sense of being sick and feeling my intelligence has been insulted.
At the end of the day, this is how I see the Obama situation with regards to Reverend Wright,
1. Obama made a strategic decision early in the race to focus on a very high level approach to campaigning. This avoided specifics and a degree of substance, but also kept him free to avoid getting mired in details over specific comments that in the modern media can come back to bite you. A good example is McCain and the 100 years in Iraq comment.
2. This strategy served him very well early on- and still is really. However, he came into this situation with Wright as the candidate a lot of people did not really have a good handle on. This is in part due to the fact that he deliberately took a very high level message approach in his speeches, and also due to the fact the other 2 major candidates have very long and well known public records.
3. At a certain point, he made it very clear that his church and his pastor were a major force in his life.
4. Then the Wright stuff comes out- a perfect media story full of hate and sensationalism. And then a LOT of people who don't personally identify with Obama or understand where he is coming from are going to automatically, and unfairly, associate him negatively with Rev. Wright.
I think that is the bottom line here. Race pervades this in a sense, but it is not the fundamental issue. The media making it an issue- and bringing out pundits who defend Wright in part- just makes it harder on Obama.
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This is what makes the media money...not boring old issues but who is sleeping wth wh, who is a hater and so forth...like him or not, Obama says what he has to say and moves on. It's not stuff that has to linger on and on...I know what he would probably like just like a lot of us would like....rather than concentrate on what he did in Jakarta or who he fellowshipped with in Chicago or at what time he took a dump, ASK HIM about what he plans to do...
I get tired of people who keep claiming well they don't know what Obama is about...stop asking the wrong questions...stop wasting air time and money going on witch hunts...simply ask him what is his platform and we won't need a 40 minute speech addressing some BS that supposedly the US has moved past.