The Political Chase

Peggy Noonan’s perspective on Obama and Wright

I rarely reference or highlight Peggy Noonan’s writings and today is one of those rare occasions. In her Wall Street Journal piece, Noonan focuses on Jeremiah Wright in a rather nuanced way. She is critical of Wright, but doesn’t employ the same bitterness and rage that Wright turned on Americans, nor does she resort to [...]

Obama repudiates Wright

(Updated below)
Barack Obama repudiated Jeremiah Wright this afternoon in a press conference in Winston-Salem, NC.
This video was just released. More to follow soon.

Update:  This is the transcript.

I have spent my entire adult life trying to bridge the gap between different kinds of people. That’s in my DNA. Trying to promote mutual understanding; to insist [...]

Dissembler

Speaks for itself.
Hillary, too, was asked about Wright today by reporters. While she took the opportunity to remind all of us of her earlier declaration that she would not have kept Wright as her pastor, she called on John McCain to get the North Carolina GOP not to run the ad hitting Obama over this:
"I [...]

Politicizing Jeremiah Wright’s Tour

Blogs are all abuzz with Rev. Jeremiah Wright today. I looked around to see what some of the reactions are and what those reactions may be based upon. This could change rapidly, but by far the majority of those blogging about Wright were conservatives and avid Hillary Clinton supporters. Neocons, for the most part, furthered [...]