[lbo-talk] Obama's "pivot"

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Apr 30 08:35:33 PDT 2008


On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> [from The Note]
>
> The Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet quotes an "Obama adviser" saying
> that Wright has become a "huge distraction. At a time when Obama is
> trying to appeal to blue-collar and working-class voters, Jeremiah
> Wright is dragging this campaign into a conversation about race . . .
> and that's not what white voters want to hear."
>
> "Nobody even wants to talk about it. It's a disaster," one Obama
> campaign source tells the New York Daily News' Michael Saul, who
> described "a usually upbeat headquarters was fighting off its worst
> morale problem since the primaries began."
> _

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