by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
The presidential campaign of Barack Obama has become a media parade on its way to a coronation. Journalists and leading Democrats have done shockingly little to pin Obama down, to hold him specifically responsible for anything beyond his slogans of "yes we can" and "change we can believe in". Prominent Black Democrats, many ministers and the traditional Black leadership class are doing less than anybody to hold Obama accountable, peddling instead a supposed racial obligation among African Americans to support this second coming of Joshua and his campaign as "the movement" itself. What would holding Barack Obama accountable on war and peace, on social security, health care and other issues look like, and is it possible to hold a political "rock star" accountable at all?
1 comment:
Lest we forget that Hillary was on her way to a coronation...Obama's challenge changed that. The only one's "coronating" Obama are voters. They vote, not the press. And, they are not so stupid as to just follow along with whatever media agenda people perceive or imagine. Finally, Obama has won several "white" states. He is much more than a "black" candidate that the Clintons and Republicans paint him to be. Hopefully we'll move on past this old style politics.
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