Shorter New York Times: If you're even a bit uncomfortable with Obama, you're going to hate his black friends.
In his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama has been running on a platform of reducing the influence of money in politics. But with Mr. Obama, as with every politician, money has been the blood flow of his campaigns. And at a critical point in his career, he greatly expanded an early pillar of his fund-raising network while trying to help the black entrepreneurs secure work with the state.Nothing like the whiff of soft bigotry on a Monday morning.
The senator’s courtship of the Chicago group and its members is a little-known chapter in his political development that shows the inextricable link between money and politics and the different interpretations people attach to it.
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Seriously, I think any political junkie should acknowledge that in the course of following their candidate/nominee/president there will be times when they feel embarassment, betrayal, and disappointment, along with pride, elation and optimism.
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