The Politico is, strangely, not being facetious when it says that Obama doesn’t want race to be an issue in this race. That’s really difficult to square with his shameful Philadelphia speech. He was confronted with proof that his preacher was an anti-American hate-monger, and his response wasn’t to accept blame for his association with such a noxious man, but rather to say that Wright’s problem was actually the nation’s problem and what we needed to do was have a national conversation about race. Obama wants to avoid race about as much as McCain wants to avoid discussing his war record.
The more Obama discusses race, of course, the larger the Bradley effect in November. Which will then be heralded as a sign of America’s deep racism. This is going to be awful.
Posted by Apollo in Audacity of Hype, Race