Bada Bing, Bada Bang...

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Brendan Loy makes an obvious point:

The truth is that Obama is speaking to black people, too -- he's speaking to everyone -- and he is sending a very clear message: enough with the bullshit. Haven't conservatives been waiting for a black leader to do that for, like, forever?

This is the promise of the Obama candidacy, encapsulated and made real. Obama is urging blacks to leave behind, once and for all, the politics of conspiratorial victimhood -- the politics of Jeremiah Wright and, although Obama can't afford politically to say so explicitly, of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton -- and embrace the politics of unity and hope and, ultimately, self-empowerment.

It's extremely depressing that the first major national black politician who takes on the victimology of Sharpton and Jackson is greeted by the right with ...cynicism .... It reveals, I think, the deeper truth: the Republican right only wants a black Republican to do this. They are not as interested in getting beyond the racial question, in changing the hopes and dreams of black America, as they are in exploiting it for partisan advantage. Their response to the first major black candidate for president tackling the old racial politics? "We don't believe him."

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/04/the-right-race.html

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1. I think he nailed it.

If a Black Republican spoke like Obama did today they would be cheering. But it doesn't count if it's a Democrat that does it.

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3. that combined with the fact that they want Clinton to be the nominee...

I think tells us all we need to know.

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2. K/R.

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4. Bada Boom

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