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OBAMA: Cuz Everyone Loves A Scandal In the hours leading up to Obama's major speech about "the larger issue of race in this campaign", liberal bloggers continued to discuss the Jeremiah Wright flap. Many bloggers are accusing the media of stoking the controversy: Ezra Klein: "Does anyone believe that Barack Obama shares Jeremiah Wright's political views? Do folks think Obama

What’s Obama To Do? As a way of dealing with the controversy surrounding the various remarks made by his pastor Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama is set to deliver a speech tomorrow where he promises to talk “about not just Reverend Wright, but the larger issue of race in this campaign .” Regardless of what he says in this speech, it’ll probably do little to appease the rank-and-file conservative Christian voters in the Republican Party who

In a few my previous posts I suggested that Senator Barack Obama deliver a speech on his views on race and religion and how they fit - or don’t - in personal and private life. Maybe he reads my blog. Ben Smith at Politico is now reporting that Senator Barack Obama will deliver a major speech in “the larger issue of race in this campaign.” According to Smith, Obama told reporters in Pennsylvania today that, “I am going to be talking about not just Reverend Wright,

had a favorable opinion of Obama. That figure has fallen to 47% on Monday (see recent daily results). In recent days, Obama has also lost ground to John McCain in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Tomorrow Barack Obama is planning to give a speech on "the larger issue of race in this campaign," he told reporters in Monaca, PA. Worrisome for Obama supporters is that, although he is denouncing Wright's specific words in the clip, he is trying to defend the man himself by making comments like,

McQ stole my headline for this, but Barack Obama will be giving a speech on race tomorrow due to the recent reaction due controversial comments by his pastor:"I am going to be talking about not just Reverend Wright, but the larger issue of race in this campaign," he said. He added that he would "talk about how some of these issues

Oratory to the Rescue? If ever Senator Obama needed his gift of oratory now is the time. He is to give a "major speech" on race and Wright tomorrow to hopefully stem the political bleeding. Via Ben Smith:

also worried that Wright and church will get caricatured unfairly. Since everyone is paying attention to Obama and race, the basic thought, according to advisers, is why not give a big speech about... Obama and race." Thankfully, Ambinder refrained, but others didn't, of alluding to Mitt Romney's big moment, his big speech on "Mormonism" (See The Garlic's Romney Speech: Where's Leonard Pinth Garnell When You Really Need Him?) Make-up Mitt delivered a snoozer, and

Evidently expectations for Barack Obama's race speech in Philadelphia today ran higher than the heavens in some quarters: Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing

Evidently expectations for Barack Obama's race speech in Philadelphia today ran higher than the heavens in some quarters: Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing

column, I cite a report that Sen. Obama had attended services at Trinity Church on July 22, 2007. The Obama camapaign has provided information showing that Sen. Obama did not attend Trinity that day. I regret the error. Update 2 - 2:33 PM: Ben Smith reports that Obama will give a “major speech” on race tomorrow, which I’m sure will be quite eloquent and impassioned, and very persuasive to those for who mere words mean everything. I guess this will be kinda like the speech Mitt Romney