05.10.08
Obama charts a losing path…
The backlash is not limited to the well known. Christopher Chambers, a Georgetown University professor and Obama supporter, said a woman tracked down his cellphone number, dialed it and called him a race traitor after he said Wright’s performance would doom the senator’s presidential run if he did not act decisively. Obama denounced Wright’s appearance later that day.
Barbara Reynolds, a black columnist who brokered Wright’s appearance at the press club, was also under assault. She rejected a wave of rumors that cast her as a Hillary Clinton supporter who set up Wright to damage Obama.
Although Reynolds has strongly criticized Obama, she said she is torn over which candidate to support. However, she said, she is unbowed by her critics: “They can label me, but I’m not going to shut up.”
Paradoxically, African Americans wondered early on if Obama cared sufficiently about their concerns. But that was before he won the Iowa caucuses. Standing in the path of Obama’s campaign has been dangerous ever since.
“Yes, I wish Wright had sat down and decided to be quiet,” said Venetria Patton, director of the African American Studies and Research Center at Purdue University.
Of Bill Clinton and his wife, she said: “The more he opened his mouth, the more I was against her.”
How to win enemies and betray friends…I definitely need to register the term McCain Democrats, though the anyone but the bullshit Obama campaign crowd will be more accurate…All that money has gone to their heads me thinks…
