Obama's Opportunity (Dick Morris and Eileen McGann)

[EveningStar]

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Townhall.com
April 30, 2008

At the start of his campaign, Obama ran in counterpoint to the previous candidacies of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Here was a black man running for president on issues that had nothing to do with race as he rose above the victimization rhetoric that characterizes so many speeches of African-American political figures.

Now, in attacking the Rev. Wright as he did Tuesday, Obama can further define himself in contrast to Wright, just as he did earlier vis-à-vis Jackson and Sharpton...More, with reader comments (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2008/04/29/obamas_opportunity?page=full&comments=true)

[Kathy30]

Gosh, not once did the article mention that the obamination had been in that church for 20 years. This article is what you can get away with saying when you have met someone, gone to the church, evaluated and recoiled in horror. It is not an appropriate address if you have been part of this ideaology for two decades.