tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post6889946767219576307..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Obama: Between His Black Rock of Ages and a Very Hard PlaceHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-91268237529159311012008-03-18T20:00:00.000-04:002008-03-18T20:00:00.000-04:00Michael, your predictions on the speech were spot ...Michael, your predictions on the speech were spot on. Not sure about MSM because I surf the 'net and don't watch TV. Since they haven't covered the negative stuff (GD America) at all I expect the whole speech will be seen, as you say, as a "wild success."Evanston2https://www.blogger.com/profile/09851967034946400308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-42585439841957151342008-03-18T10:21:00.000-04:002008-03-18T10:21:00.000-04:00This all seems right, but I suspect that most of t...This all seems right, but I suspect that most of the MSM is all too willing to declare whatever Obama says a success. Compare this to Romney's speech, which was pretty good, except for his rather clumsy ignoring of unbelievers - Romney got scorched over that. If Obama makes a similar sort of misstep, I think he gets a pass. Of course, I don't think it's because most of the journalists and pundits who populate places like the NYT and WaPo and ABC News actually believe stuff like what Wright says. Rather, they *understand* how it is that someone like Wright *could* say those things. It's just another form of Wolfe's "radical chic": no matter how far Left (or into loony-land) one goes, so long as you're stickin' it to the man, you're cool.<BR/><BR/>So here's a prediction: Obama will disavow Wright, for the most part, but plead understanding - and turn it against his critics by suggesting that the real problem in America is that whitey just doesn't understand the hopelessness that permeates places like the south side of Chicago. The real issue, he'll say, isn't what a particular pastor said in particular sermon, but why it is that X number of people are in jail, why Y number of people don't have health insurance, why...you get the point... And it'll be a wild success..Michael Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10987298276951380726noreply@blogger.com