The Swamp: Obama's Jay-Z brush off
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Media Blitz Delivers Barack Obama's Angry Black Man Test
Published 4/28/2008 by Eric Deggans at The Feed
... Obama's people probably hoped they might flick him off the campaign's radar the way the candidate quoted Jay-Z in pretending to flick off criticisms from Hillary Clinton. ...
Eric Deggans: Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Media Blitz Forces Barack Obama to Face the Angry Black Man Test -- Again
Published 4/28/2008 by Eric Deggans at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... Obama's people probably hoped they might flick controversy over Wright off the campaign's radar the way the candidate quoted Jay-Z in pretending to flick off criticisms from Hillary Clinton. Or the way Obama flicked off traditional black power brokers such as Sharpton and Tavis Smiley. Black folks surprised the pundits by accepting that Obama didn't have to touch base with these traditional leaders to get black votes, and white voters seemed pretty ready to disregard complaints from these figures, given his success with black constituencies. ...



