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br> Re: Lawrence Henry's Blocking Barack and Jeffrey Lord's Obama and the Bombmaker's Church : /p>

Barack's speech was brilliant and will go down in history because it secured his radical left-wing base and will allow him to breeze to the nomination.

By embracing the person of Pastor Wright and denouncing his views, Obama has managed to have it both ways. Many thought the speech was going to distance Obama from Pastor Wright but that would have set apart the radical base and would not have satisfied "angry white men" anyway.

While, in general terms, Obama said that Pastor Wright was "wrong," he could have gone a long way in healing some of the racial divide by shooting down the myths that radicals like Wright pronounce as truths. Namely:

p>1) White Republicans invented the AIDS virus to kill black men; br> 2) George Bush actually did 9/11; br> 3) The world's problems are caused by America. /p> p>In this regard, Obama passed up a great opportunity to speak "truth to black power" and he utterly failed to do so. br> --

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