Monday, March 31, 2008

HORSERACE

Do Democrats Really Believe Obama Is Inoculated On Wright?

This MyDD thread, including a web video that puts together Jeremiah Wright's sermons and graphic images of the 9/11 attacks, is generating buzz. 

Like the web video that mixed Wright with Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, I think it's gilding the lily. Wright, coupled with Michelle Obama's statement that she's only now proud of her country, and Obama's pledges to limit defense spending, are damaging enough. Footage of the 9/11 attacks is, in this context, a distraction at best and irredeemably exploitative and tasteless to most viewers.

But the MyDD poster is left with in a strange role, using the most shocking images of the decade to try to warn the Democratic party not to buy into the idea that the Jeremiah Wright matter has come and gone with minimal damage to Obama.

03/31 10:42 AMShare