RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - On Obama's Speech

RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - On Obama's Speech

"Candidates make all kinds of promises about what they will do, and voters need to find some way to gauge whether they will actually do what they say. One way to do that is to look at what they have done. By contextualizing Jeremiah Wright in the broader dilemma of American divisiveness, Obama has identified his experience at Trinity as a small instance of a larger problem that plagues the country, the problem to which he intends to dedicate the 44th presidency. It is therefore reasonable to ask what he did - empowered as he was as a high-profile, long-standing parishioner - to change the viewpoint of Wright or Trinity, and whether those efforts were successful. The essential problem of the speech is that it gives no answer to these queries." RELATED: Ed Morrissey writes, "How responsible or courageous is it to remain silent in that community while the rhetoric that Obama finds so objectionable gets delivered to the next two generations -- including his own children?"