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Best Article On Obama

This article by Stanley Kurtz in The Weekly Standard is the best thing I?ve read on Obama anywhere ? in papers mainstream and otherwise, magazines, and blogs (including this one). I?ll have more to say about it presently, but since it?s long and since you?re required by official DISCRIMINATIONS edict to read the whole thing I wanted to mention it now so you so you can get started.

I believe it is impossible for anyone to read it and still believe that Obama is a post-racial candidate who will bridge our partisan, racial, and cultural divisions.

If Obama?s opponents in the Democratic primaries and their partners in the press had done the digging that Kurtz has done and made this material public earlier, it is possible (the Democratic Party being what it is today) that Obama still would have won the nomination. But if this information is widely disseminated before the election I don?t see how he can win, unless he finds some way to dismiss it or repudiate his past. He?s dumped Wright, but can he dump or otherwise distance himself from everything Kurtz presents?

We?ll see.

Full post as published by Discriminations on August 03, 2008 (boomark / email).