Cometh the hour, cometh the man...
It's the speech he never wanted to make. He's avoided the subject of race for his entire campaign. But, recently, the comments of Reverend Wright have forced him to address the subject.
And when he addresses it, he doesn't simply gloss over it or apply an apologetic sheen. He simply states where the US is now and how it can work towards "a more perfect union". It's brilliant. With this speech alone, he shows why he deserves to be the next President of the United States.
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Yeah, I liked how he compared his Grandmother to the racist anti-American extremist Wright.
Unfortunately for Obama, his campaign has lost all momentum and Independents are fleeing him in droves for McCain.
In a turnaround from last month, McCain now leads both Obama and Clinton among independent voters. Obama led McCain by 10 points among this group last month, but he now trails by 8 points. Clinton trails McCain by 11 points among independents.
The point he made about his grandmother was a valid one. My father often makes comments which I regard as greatly offensive. Should I denounce him? Or should I regard him as a product of his background as much as I am a product of mine?
I know you keep praying for the moment - the last time it was false charges of plagiarism - which will end Obama's campaign, but I think this guy is the real deal and I think he will be the next President of the US.
false charges of plagiarism
Passing off the intellectual work of others without attribution as if it were your own is plagiarism, regardless of whether or not you have permission to use that work. Any first year university student (or middle school student for that matter) knows this.
And the comparison with his grandmother was beyond ridiculous. Obama was a member of a radical, racist organization that espoused anti-American rhetoric. Nobody buys his claim that he didn't know this stuff was going on and he should have left as soon as he figured it out.
That said, I understand why he was there. The church was very large and influential and certainly served to lend him some credibility among the African-American community in Chicago. This no doubt greatly aided him in his political aspirations, and at the time association with that church probably seemed like an astute move. Well, that certainly works on the local level, but the impact of association with that kind of an organization plays differently on the national level.
He may find that his close associations come back to haunt him during the general election, because quite simply I doubt the racist and extremist points-of-view offered by that organization are palatable to the general electorate, and his twenty year association with them will certainly leave a mark. Whether or not that mark is enough to derail his bid for the Presidency remains to be seen.
Passing off the intellectual work of others without attribution as if it were your own is plagiarism, regardless of whether or not you have permission to use that work. Any first year university student (or middle school student for that matter) knows this.
What utter piffle. Political allies work together to refute opponents arguments all the time.
And the rest of your rant simply tells me how much you fear Obama facing your man McCain and how you would prefer him to be facing Clinton at the election. And tell me, was it a big decision to support McCain, did you have to wrestle with it? As an independent, did none of the Democratic candidates appeal to you?
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