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Obama: Small Towners as Source of Values
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dgilgoff
Barack Obama’s unscripted comments about small town Americans clinging to God, guns, and anti-immigrant sentiment didn’t do him any favors in Pennsylvania’s primary, so he’s heaping praise on small town values in advance of Indiana’s Tuesday primary. Here’s The Truth newspaper said about Obama’s appearance yesterday in a South Bend barn: “It is my belief…
Michelle Obama: Barack is the Anti-Wright
By
dgilgoff
God-o-Meter noted yesterday that the Obama camp had begun subtly using surrogates to turn the bitter Wright controversy into lemonade, arguing that Obama’s Wright denouncement this week made him the opposite of the Angry Black Man: the man uniquely able to carry the country past the nation’s old divisions of culture and race that have…
What Will Wright Do Next?
By
dgilgoff
After a string of public appearances by Rev. Jeremiah Wright were cancelled following the circulation of his radical sermons via video in March and his church web site was sanitized, God-o-Meter assumed that Wright was cooperating with the Obama campaign in an attempt to defuse the controversy surrounding his relationship with the presidential candidate. Wright’s…
Turning Wright Around
By
dgilgoff
Former Bill Clinton political advisor Dick Morris says today that the Wright crisis gives Obama a major opportunity to define himself against the archetypal Angry Black Man: But if Wright has come to be the poster child for what America fears in a black public figure, he gives Obama an opportunity to be the opposite.…
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