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Toni Morrison To Endorse Obama

By Big Tent Democrat

ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison -- who famously declared Bill Clinton to be the nation's "first black president" -- is endorsing Barack Obama for president today, an Obama campaign source tells ABC News.

In an October 1998 essay in The New Yorker, Morrison wrote: "Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime."

This is a double edged sword for Obama imo. The Media will love it as they will see it as a rebuke to the Clintons. It will get a lot of play.

The downside is EVERY story will focus on Morrison's "first Black President" remark. NOT exactly the focus Obama would want it seems to me. If I was on Obama's team, I wonder if they might have wanted to not have this one AT THIS TIME. But what do I know?

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).