Comments on: Obama & Racial Attacks

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:12:06 +0000

LOL @ jerry.

By: jerry

jerry — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:34:27 +0000

With all due respect Oliver, I’m still trying to figure out why you haven’t apologized for Darth Vader…. And please not the same old tired excuse that ANH came out the year before you were born.

By: Zython

Zython — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:24:19 +0000

I should also point out that you don’t get many diverse voices by again having a state like Iowa determine our candidates.

Not if Hillary & Richardson have anything to say about it.

By: Bruce Godfrey

Bruce Godfrey — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:32:46 +0000

Edwards could have done better with that but not bad.

I smell a plant, and not from Team Obama.

By: Philip Barron

Philip Barron — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:13:09 +0000

There are crackpots like that everywhere, not just Iowa. They lay in wait with private grudges and voices in their heads and are just waiting to ruin a politician’s day. Edwards’ response was pretty sharp and played directly to his campaign themes:

Edwards said to the man that he’d work to “create the kind of opportunities for African-Americans that all Americans are entitled to.”

Edwards noted that African-Americans have higher rates of poverty and are more likely to not have health insurance than whites. He added, “Instead of focusing on what happened with O.J., what I want to do is focus on what I see as the underlying causes of those things, poverty in America, lack of health care, lack of opportunity…”

Not bad. Hope he tossed back a deserved shot of bourbon afterwards.