February 9, 2007: Obama No Johnny Cochran

Listen up Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters and the rest of the "race politics" crowd. (And Mr. Johnny too, if he can hear from beyond the grave.) Barack Obama is not playing the tired race card. Good for him!

Drudge reports the following from a Steve Kroft interview with the candidate to air on Sixty Minutes this Sunday:

Will being African-American hold him back as a candidate? "No.... If I don't win this race it will be because of other factors --[that] I have not shown to the American people a vision for where the country needs to go that they can embrace," Obama tells Kroft.

Makes sense to me.

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I doubt I'll be able to vote for Obama (too far to the Left), but there are things I give him credit for. One is what you describe above, Roger, and the other is the bill he co-sponsored with conservative Senator Coburn to create a publicly accessible database so citizen can track pork spending.

Posted by: Anthony (Los Angeles) at February 9, 2007 6:11 PM

Just what I need a data base letting everyone in the world know where I get my deals on pork butts and baby backs.

I honestly have to tell all the world that I am going to love the next year and watch this Hillary vs Obama single elimination match. I actually, kind of feel sorry for the guy.

Posted by: promoguy at February 10, 2007 11:55 AM

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