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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (242727)	3/19/2008 7:00:07 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794192

These are reasonable questions to ask. They speak to the implicit warranty that a candidate offers when he or she runs for any office. Candidates make all kinds of promises about what they will do, and voters need to find some way to gauge whether they will actually do what they say. One way to do that is to look at what they have done. By contextualizing Jeremiah Wright in the broader dilemma of American divisiveness, Obama has identified his experience at Trinity as a small instance of a larger problem that plagues the country, the problem to which he intends to dedicate the 44th presidency. It is therefore reasonable to ask what he did - empowered as he was as a high-profile, long-standing parishioner - to change the viewpoint of Wright or Trinity, and whether those efforts were successful. The essential problem of the speech is that it gives no answer to these queries. I wouldn't expect the speech to answer these questions. I would expect his actions before becoming a Prez candidate to answer those questions. He did nothing. By not rejecting this wrongful message, he became allied to it. No amount of spin and rationalization can change that. Edit: Just read Dick Morris on the subject. What he says, that Obama's involvement with Wright and the Church was just another career move, makes sense. I think, however, that Morris is wrong in one respect, i.e., that Americans will recognize this pragmatism for what it was and forgive Obama for it. Very few white voters have any idea of the political clout powerful black preachers have in the black community. They will continue to be puzzled by his actions.