The Other Bold Speech that Obama Needs to Give to Make the Reverend Wright Controversy Go Away

The cruel irony about Jeremiah Wright is that Reverend Wright is the only person in America who can bring down Barack Obama, and he did. He is also the only person in America who could have “saved” Barack Obama. And he chose not to. In a previous article we published on Mach 16 shortly after the Wright controversy broke out, we had advised the Obama campaign about the urgency of holding a press conference and letting Obama make a historic speech that would ease the controversy and reassert him as the candidate of real change. We were happy to see that the Obama campaign did exactly what we had advocated, both in terms of the content of the sample speech we had provided, but also in terms of the form of it: he read the speech at a place of historic significance in Pennsylvania. While this speech did Obama great good in, indeed, easing the controversy, the ugly head of Wright has surfaced again, but this time with the kind of vengeance that is now threatening to lose Obama the nomination. Read more

Dear Mr. Clinton

I see your true colors shining through
You loved America’s black people,
When we were voting for you
But now Mr. Clinton you have crossed the line

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What Barack Obama Should Say to Make the Pennsylvania “Small-Town People” Controversy Go Away

Barack Obama has continued to demonstrate an incredible inability to hit back at Hillary Clinton, even in the context of very favorable circumstances. In all appearance, the media seems to have attempted to cut him some slack in the past few weeks, and Hilary Clinton has had a number of difficult weeks due to issues such as her made-up Kosovo story and the more recent Colombian gaffe by Mark Penn, her chief campaign strategist. In all, the campaign environment has been going great for Obama, and the polls have been showing him gaining ground in Pennsylvania, until he himself made the recent “small-town people” comments that put him on the defensive again. And of course, as could have been expected, Hillary Clinton pounced on those remarks with a vengeance, and McCain joined the chorus in amplifying words by Obama that were, in fact, describing the reality of the America of today: people ARE bitter AND frustrated about the way this country has been run by the Bush administration. Read more