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While it is certainly true Barack Obama needed the Jeremiah Wright brouhaha about as much as Nick Nolte needs an open bar tab, it would appear all the hand-wringing by the drive-by bloviators on the right-wing media airwaves have had precious little impact on the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign.
Despite a seeming “All Obama/All Jeremiah Wright/All The Time” preoccupation with the Democratic Party presidential nominee’s silly preacher on the Faux News Channel, as well as the dyspeptic fulminations of Rush Limbaugh his associate lap dogs like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, none of the foaming at the mouth phony indignation seems to have had much of an effect on the candidate’s polling numbers.
Indeed both a NBC/Wall Street Journal and a Pew Research Center national poll in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright kerfuffle showed Obama with a 49% to 39% lead over Hillary Clinton.
Indeed a California Public Policy Institute poll, found that 61% of the state’s voters held a positive few of Obama, compared to 45% for Clinton.
And while all polls this early during a presidential candidate are merely snapshots in time and hardly indicative of how the numbers will ultimately fall in November, a case could certainly be made that after two weeks of fairly relentless critical reporting about his controversial minister, Obama appears to have weathered the storm pretty well.
Why is that?
Well for starters, it is rather doubtful the Limbaugh Axis of Demagoguery has much juice beyond his fellow travelers. Really now, can you imagine some liberal Democratic voters suddenly deciding to switch allegiances away from Obama, simply because Rush Limbaugh and his little friends got their bloomers in a wad?
And there is this. It’s merely a guess, but do you think it’s possible most people following Obama’s ministerial pickle concluded it was entirely possible that, like many churchgoers, Obama sat in that pew when he attended services and simply zoned out once Wright started ranting?
Quick now. If you attended church last Sunday, do you remember a single word your preacher uttered?
In the end the Jeremiah Wright dust-up may be remembered not so much for anything the crazy cleric said, but that anyone was paying any attention to notice in the first place.
And that’s the God’s honest truth.
Posted by Mike Kowalski, Sarasota on 04/03 at 12:49 AM
Imagine your emotional state on the Sunday following 9-11. I remember myself weeping in sorrow as I did yard work. Listen to the hateful sermon delivered in Obama’s church on that day. The “Chickens coming home to roost” sermon. The congregation was just eating it up. No man who is part of an institution that would behave that way while the ruins of the World Trade Center smoldered should ever even be considered to be President.
Posted by Mike Kowalski, Sarasota on 04/03 at 12:48 AM
Obama has his kids sitting in a church that preaches Black Liberation theology, a theology which is racist in the purist sense. It teaches that the government created the AIDS virus to commit genocide on people of color. Gives awards to Louis Farrakhan. (Whites are devils put on the earth to torment blacks). This is the Obama that is going to help heal the racial divide?
Posted by Dave Highlands, St Petersburg on 03/29 at 07:09 AM
How to explain Obama’s poll numbers? Well, pretend--no, you’d have to fantasize--that I’m a Democrat. I have a choice: a man who’s all sizzle and no steak, or a woman who’s an unprincipled shrew. A militant first lady, or a lecherous first man. Way I figure, an airhead can always hire to fill in his intellectual gaps. Much harder to fumigate the White House to get all of the sleaze, the stench out of it.
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Posted by Mike Kowalski, Sarasota on 04/03 at 12:50 AM
So after the initial release of the story Obama is still up in the polls. The story for Daniel Ruth is the ineffectiveness of Rush Limbaugh? Does it matter to Daniel Ruth that the next President of the United States may be an adherent to Black Liberation theology? Does it matter that the press held onto this aspect of Obama’s story until this late in the process? That’s where the story is. You’d think a “news man” like Daniel Ruth could figure that out.