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To: carranza2 who wrote (242745)	3/19/2008 7:22:37 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794214

Typical Morris. Was having kids a career move too? Having them baptised there - career move? Presumably sending them to Sunday School, pure career move?

To: carranza2 who wrote (242745)	3/19/2008 11:47:24 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794214

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. I read that too but I think Dick Morris is missing the essential point, cynic that he is: Obama was supposed to be different. If people view this as Morris suggests, i.e. another rising young pol making a good career move, that undercuts any sense of Obama being different. If he wasn't a strong enough person to get his church to clean up its act on the racial hatred front, how are we supposed to believe that he'll be able to make a difference as President? Or even want to try?