Hillary to Obama: Debate me one on one – no moderators
The AP reports that Hillary is ramping up the pressure on Barack Obama to debate her before the NC and Indiana primaries, this time, without moderators:
Hypocrite Howie calls NC GOP’S Wright/Obama ad “racially divisive”
Jim Geraghty notes with quotes from the past the sheer hypocrisy of the DNC Chair Howard Dean when it comes to his accusations of “racial divisiveness.” What Dean said today:
Attack ads on Obama in NC generate controversy, outrage
There is an emerging storm brewing between the Obama campaign, the national GOP, and John McCain against the North Carolina GOP over an ad the NCGOP created that includes snippets of Obama’s “former” pastor Jeremiah Wright’s “sermons.” Here’s the ad:
Rational and thoughtful ways to bridge the racial divide
We’ve been told by liberal apologists this week in response to Barack Obama’s “Lincoln-esque” speech that it was right on the money, and provided a ‘painful’ but necessary reminder as to why we ‘need’ the Rev. Wrights of this world: to keep front and center in our minds our country’s history when it comes to race, so we can wallow in the guilt forever and ever. That, they believe, is the only way we can ‘move forward’ in an effort to bridge the racial divide. Much of what Wright has asserted wouldn’t be so ‘controversial,’ they asserted in so many words, had he ‘worded’ it better, because much of what Wright has preached from his pulpit on Sundays was/is supposedly ‘true.’ So instead of being critical, we should just sit back, listen, ‘learn,’ and let the guilt wash over us.
Obama explains his comments about his white grandmother, makes matters worse (UPDATE 3: BO CAMPAIGN PLAYS THE “BLAME BUSH” GAME IN PASSPORT SCANDAL)
One of the lines from Obama’s “Lincoln-esque” race speech Tuesday that critics have seized on as one of his worst lines was the remark he made about his grandmother and alleged bigoted remarks she made about a black man who passed her on the street: