1.0 link 92723 <![CDATA[Some Blues for Mr. Charlie: Obama's Moment of Truth]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-laarman/some-blues-for-mr-charlie_b_92723.html It probably had to happen. Maybe better now than later. But still profoundly depressing to see that the practical effect of The Speech was to push down Obama's numbers significantly among Democratic voters, according to Gallup.

I do not fault the candidate for campaigning on the premise of a post-racial culture. I do not tax him with naivete. To my knowledge Obama never denied that the old divisions and wounds are real. But it took the firestorm over Jeremiah Wright's sermons...

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