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| The Daily Voice is the leading destination for African American news and opinion, featuring sports, arts, entertainment, business, finance, fashion, style and spirituality. ... |
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 --- 73 days ago http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/05/how-right-to-be-so-wrong-barac-000560.php
 Nothing has been so underappreciated this campaign season than the relentless force of George Bush's unmitigated failure as a president. Bush's unprecedented awfulness has enhanced every strength and excused every weakness of Obama's candidacy and readied voters for seismic change.
David Dante Troutt's most recent books are The Importance of Being Dangerous and After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina . He is a professor of law at Rutgers University (Newark).
Sometimes there's nothing more satisfying than being completely wrong.
The good white folks of Indiana made sure of this in last week's primary, just when Barack Obama's candidacy was supposed to hinge on the "coalition" of working-class white voters Hillary Clinton had accumulated in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania's "bitter" whites gave Clinton renewed hope by dashing the hope that Democrats might transcendently vote the issues and the odds rather than any prejudices they might harbor. Pennsylvania made me wonder if I'd been right about race in America after all. But white folks turn out to be less predictable than Hillary thought.
The Obama campaign has taught us many things so far. He was right about the wisdom of running for president so soon. His campaign awakened new voters with positive substance rather than negative pushback. Intellectuals are discovering the value of a clearer line between secular black lead ... |
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