May 17, 2008
I'll make this very quick and to the point, since there's already far too much discussion of this particular topic.
If the American voters really are willing to take into consideration, even for a moment, Barack Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright when deciding whether or not to vote...
Howard Winant | Posted May 2, 2008 | Politics
Start with this: every national election has been about race. Go back as far as you want. You'll find the slavery-oriented elections, the immigration-oriented elections, the Jim Crow elections. You'll find civil rights as an issue before the eruption of the modern civil rights movement (1948 anyone?). There's Lyndon Johnson's...
Rasmussen Reports | May 2, 2008 10:56 AM
Washington Post's The Trail | Jonathan Weisman | May 2, 2008 09:48 AM
Dylan Loewe | Posted May 2, 2008 | Politics
In the aftermath of the Reverend Wright tornado, many of Barack Obama's most ardent supporters have begun to feel a bit of trepidation, a kind of uncertainty that is deeply unsettling. What was easily the most trying week for the Obama campaign appeared to follow a week that was nearly...
Byron Williams | Posted May 1, 2008 | Politics
With the backdrop of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's recent comments, members of Piedmont Community Church and Imani Community Church of Oakland got together to have a frank conversation about race.
Led by Dr. Bill McNabb, pastor of Piedmont Community and Dr. George Cummings, pastor of Imani, they sought to localize...
Huff TV | Posted May 1, 2008 | Media
Jeffrey Robbins | Posted May 1, 2008 | Politics
Who would have thought that at this point in the presidential campaign season it would be the Democrats who are embroiled in an intra-mural battle over the influence of a perceived religious extremist?
Remember, after all, it was the Republicans who played to form in their early May 3,...
MSNBC | Mark Murray | May 1, 2008 08:58 AM
Andrew Arentowicz | Posted April 30, 2008 | Politics
Hello. You and I probably do not know each other but I'm sure if we sat down and had a beer together, we would become friends. It's an interesting phenomenon...that if we were all able to spend some quality time together, most of us would become friends. Sure we would...
John W. Whitehead | Posted April 30, 2008 | Politics
The media is once again in a feeding frenzy. Its latest victim is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, of which presidential contender Barack Obama is a member.
If you buy into what the media is reporting, much of it culled...
Rashid Shabazz | Posted April 30, 2008 | Politics
"I'm Lebron Baby...I can play on this level. I got some game." - Sen. Barack Obama
Obama has been great for television. Unlike any other candidate before him, he has made this primary season one for the ratings. His message of hope and change, his youthful energy and inspirational...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | April 30, 2008
Dave Winer | Posted April 30, 2008 | Politics
First, I've given Obama another $100 today for a total of $900. It's the 30th, the end of a month. Of the three remaining candidates, he's still by far the best choice. And he still is the best person I've ever had the chance to support, imho.
Yesterday he...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | April 30, 2008 04:41 PM
Leonce Gaiter | Posted April 30, 2008 | Off The Bus
If Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his former disciple, Barack Obama were white, this would not be a story. Wright would not have gained the attention he did. He would not have been seduced to take his 15 minutes at Obama's expense. CNN would not have become the Jeremiah Wright show....
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | April 30, 2008 12:58 PM
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | April 30, 2008 12:10 PM
John McQuaid | Posted April 30, 2008 | Media
With so much at stake -- Iraq, the economy, global warming -- how is it the presidential campaign descended into a parade of irrelevancies? The media know better. Is there is anyone working for a media organization (new, traditional, left, right) who genuinely believes that Jeremiah Wright's views on HIV,...
Andy Borowitz | Posted April 30, 2008 | Politics
In an act that campaign insiders said indicated an irrevocable break with his former pastor, Sen. Barack Obama today de-friended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Facebook.
Sen. Obama's comments about Rev. Wright on Tuesday seemed to indicate that a total rift with his former minister was underway, but his decision...
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Chez Pazienza | Posted May 2, 2008 | Politics