Ok, Obama Did His Press Conference. Let's Call Up Catholics, Clinton and McCain
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 17:51 | baratunde | tagged Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hype, Jeremiah Wright, The Media in Election 2008 See for yourself:
That's gotta hurt. I don't envy Senator Obama right now, and seeing him distinguish between Wright on Moyers and Wright at the National Press Club helped me see the difference as well. So have the commenters here. I truly believe the press and the Right would harass Obama on this issue to no end regardless of what Wright said, but I can see how he made it a little easier.
Moving on.
So, this is the part in the show where all Catholic politicians are asked why they haven't left a church that sanctioned mass child rape right?
Or is it the part in the show when Hillary Clinton is dragged before the cameras to explain her association with The Family?
My bad, it must be the part of the show where John Hagee gets death threats and McCain is harassed for weeks on end about his choice of a spiritual advisor who is promoting war against Iran because he thinks it will accelerate the Second Coming.
Or not.
What a farce.
Reader Comments (2)
Speaking as someone who came to Obama rather late in the game, I have to say that today's press conference really impressed me. I saw a man having to do something difficult, but sucking it up and doing it anyway. I mean, yeah, the whole Wright thing is a total distraction, and I don't personally care what he said at the Press Club or what he said 20 years ago, but it's also the kind of political kabuki any candidate has to engage in these days. That said, Obama struck me as genuinely pained (and genuinely pissed), and it only made me think more of the guy.
Obama = Empty Suit