Nausea-Inducing
A new Rasmussen poll has this to report concerning the recent “news” about Obama and his pastor:
Overall, voters are evenly divided as to whether Obama should resign his membership in the Church—42% say that he should while 40% disagree.
Is it just me, or is that sentence truly sickening? We’re really a country that feels that comfortable telling a politician to resign his membership in a church?
Just out of morbid curiosity, do any readers here really, truly, actually care about this at all?
This is a pretty good rundown of the absurd media coverage of this story, particularly about 4:20 into it when it shows a pretty great exchange among Chris Wallace, Sen. Dodd, and Sen. Schumer on Fox News Sunday.
All this looks like it could be leading to this becoming the new attack on Obama: saying “What do we really know about Barack Obama?” over and over again.
Is that unfair? I’d say so. Is it racially charged? Absolutely. Does it make Geraldine Ferraro look like a moron? Clearly.
But I guess this is just the way it goes. Unless, by some chance, voters choose to reject it and actually vote for the guy running the kind of campaign they always say they want to see run.
On a lighter note, here is Tracy Morgan commenting on the racial politics of this presidential campaign on Saturday Night Live. Pretty quality.
Update: This news that Obama will be giving a major speech tomorrow on Wright in particular and racial politics in general makes me excited. (And honestly, how often can anybody - even political junkies - say they get excited to hear about a politician giving a speech? This is that whole “hope” thing people keep talking about.)
Later Update: This is spectacular.
