Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The RDS extending to Politics

So some of the sheen has finally worn off of Mr. Obama, and the media and a large portion of the blogosphere are acting like they were somehow betrayed by the fact that this man that they supported has revealed himself to be human. I don't know what people were really expecting. At the end of the day, I think there is now a legitimacy to some of the questions that are being asked, even in regards to his former pastor. However, it's telling that both a) the right-wing noise machine is all but ignoring Senator Clinton's repeated attempts to turn this into a race between her and McCain, and b) while he's been fairly good at rolling with the punches, this is an issue that doesn't seem to be going away. I'm curious to see how this plays out.

1 comment:

Emily said...

Yeah, I don't know what's going on with the whole Wright thing. Wasn't that all blown over when Obama made his race speech?

Basically, the news outlets feel like they need to have something to cover, and so they're making mountains out of molehills. Nothing new, I suppose.