Unfortunately, I am going to be tied up today so I won’t be around to blog about Obama’s big speech on race until later this afternoon/evening. Use this thread as an open thread to comment on it, and whatever else you want to talk about.
… and, among other thigns, was a miserable failure in the counterterrorism department, but the only thing that can apparently hurt Bubba’s image is … his active role in his wife’s campaign:
The Washington Post reported last Friday that General David Petraeus asserted that Iraqi leaders had failed to take advantage of the success of the surge in seeking political reconciliation. Only problem is that once you get beyond the first paragraph, you’ll see that Petraeus didn’t quite say what the WaPo claimed he did:
Looks like “the Messiah” isn’t the only one who’ll misrepresent/lie about the comment in order to gain political traction. Jim Geraghty has the story and the McCain response.
Over the weekend, Rocco di Pippo at the Autonomist blog did some digging and found a Newsmax piece written in August 2007 by Jim Davis, in which Davis asserted that Obama was in attendance at a Trinity United Church of Christ service on July 22nd of that same year. Davis also reported that Obama allegedly “nodded in apparent agreement” when Wright was going on one of his now infamous “US of White America” diatribes.
