[lbo-talk] the Rev Wright

[Doug Henwood]

I just asked Adolph Reed, who lived in Chicago at the time and  
watched Obama's rise up close, why a man who, as David Gergen put it  
on CNN the other night "doesn't have a radical bone in his body,"  
buddied up to a fiery black nationalist preacher. Adolph said that  
Obama probably planned to run for mayor of Chicago, and needed to  
broaden his support beyond his base among Hyde Park liberals and the  
foundation world, so joining Wright's church would help. It's the  
only explanation I've heard that makes any sense.

Doug