Obama Goes To Black Father’s Day = Nixon Goes to China?

African American men are one of Barack Obama’s strongest constituencies. And yesterday, Father’s Day, he called them out about disproportionately high levels of asbsentee fatherhood among African American men.

This is tough stuff. This is akin to John McCain going to white seniors and lecturing them about the current structure of Social Security and Medicare [...]

The Hangover After the Big Party

White Wright

OK, Crowd. What is your take on the latest sermonoid from a different minister at Chicago’s United Church of Christ?

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The Real Straight Talk Express?

Politically naive? Change we can believe in? Sells with white winers, but not the Budweisers? The Straight Talk Express hijacked?
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Wright Fight Right for White Flight?

Will this terse statement cost Obama African American votes? Is it his Sister Souljah moment? Will his very public Wright fight help him win whites?
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Obama’s Unused (So Far) Message: “Let’s End It.”

Time’s Mark Halperin (whose “The Page” is one of the more useful and appealing of the major news outlets’ blogs, IMHO) noted yesterday that two Obama staffers left Pennsylvania last night sporting “Stop the Drama, Vote Obama” t-shirts.
Now, I’m not sure to which of the associated election dramas the slogan originally referred, but the obvious [...]

“Liberal Media Coverage” Update

Today the Pew Research Center released a survey in which an overwhelming number of Americans said the news coverage of conservative Republican Senator John McCain has been mostly positive. Three times more Americans said McCain’s news coverage had been “mostly positive” (36%) than those who said the coverage had been “mostly negative” (11%).” The [...]

First, Do No Harm

The foundation of the Hippocratic Oath states that physicians will “never do harm to anyone.” Political consultants should take a similar “first, do no harm” oath.
Witness the harm that Obama’s political consultants did to their candidate by writing a script that says “I don’t take money from oil companies,” instead of stating that he [...]

Clinton Ads Add Up

Senator Obama may be ahead in pledged delegates, votes, states, rally attendance, small donors, and money, but he is lagging in one key area, effectiveness of paid advertising. From the phone ad to her current testimonial ad attacking Obama for dissing small towns, God and guns, Senator Clinton’s ads have been more effective.
Here newest [...]

Bittergate

Well, how did the God and gun hater handle the rebuttal to the attack?

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