10/1/07

Target: Obama
By: Mark W Adams


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.

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.
Nothing like the whiff of soft bigotry on a Monday morning.

1 Comment:

Ara said...

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.