http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/date/2008/5/5/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/date/2008/5/5/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5E86BB97-053A-4AAD-863B-A773B1187592/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/">CrazyRedHead</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> "If there is a reason why the potential nominee has been keeping what he himself now admits to be very bad company—and if the rest of his character seems to make this improbable—then either he is hiding something and/or it is legitimate to ask him about his partner." <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2190589/" title="http://www.slate.com/id/2190589/">www.slate.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/B31E98A4-9AE7-4E60-97DB-0D2713C9A442.jpg" alt="Michelle Obama. Click to view expanded image." /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Liberal comment on Wright, and on the incredible damage that this conceited old fanatic has done to the Obama campaign, tends to dwell on the negative effect that black chauvinist rhetoric has on white working-class voters. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">But why should a thinking black member of the working class want any truck with a Farrakhan fan or with a moral idiot who thinks that the drugs and disease in the black community are imposed by an outside conspiracy?</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">What can it be that has kept Obama in Wright's pews, and at Wright's mercy, for so long and at such a heavy cost to his aspirations?</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Could it possibly have anything, I wonder, to do with Mrs. Obama?</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Mrs. Obama's 1985 thesis at Princeton</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">is "<A target="_blank" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2305083/PrincetonEducated-Blacks-and-the-Black-Community" linkindex="52" set="yes">Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community</A>."</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Michelle Obama announces that she's much influenced by the definition of black "separationism" offered by Stokely Carmichael</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">we should find out before it's too late to ask.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/election/" rel="tag">election</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wright/" rel="tag">wright</a></div>http://www.slate.com/id/2190589/Mon, 05 May 2008 23:58:21 GMT