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This Race Business

Most decent Americans would prefer not to think about it.

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Contrary to what Sen. Obama said after Rev. Wright's comments came to light, those recorded sermons were not just "snippets" captured here and there, a few seconds' worth broadcast over and over.

Those excerpts were recorded and published by the Trinity United Church of Christ itself, sold in its own lobby on a DVD, exhibited with pride. And in the Rev. Wright's sermons, you hear the giant congregation howling in agreement.

So where do we come down in the upcoming general election? If Barack Obama had managed to sustain his campaign as a post-racial candidate, he might well have won. People like hopeful, upbeat candidates, even if their hope and cheer has very little substance.

Obama has, unfortunately for him, been revealed to have a number of radical associations, with confrontational views he would rather have hid.

And most people do not like that.

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John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, NATO, Africa

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