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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Was Obama's speech enough?

He spoke eloquently and bravely about race but his remarks about his pastor Jeremiah Wright leave many tough questions unanswered.

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  • Tuesday, March 18, 2008 05:42 PM

    Built a career around devisiveness?

    I think Joan Walsh lacks credibility on this -- to reduce Pastor Wright's life and vocation to being the moral equivalent of Farrakan, which is what she is suggesting, is to write in bad faith. She knows, or ought to know, better. The reduction of a person's life to FOX soundbites is bad enough. To have the same crap spewed on us in her column is worse, since we are supposed to be in a better forum. Before Editor Walsh tells us what she is "buying" or "not buying" perhaps she should look more deeply into the life of the man she condemns as a simple hatemonger. I think she has abandoned her responsibility as a journalist and join the ranks of the Washington pudocracy that Salon is usually much better than. I'm disgusted.

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