Barack Obama gets more personal with black voters

Politico ^ | Oct. 11, 2010 | CAROL E. LEE & ABBY PHILLIP

[Levante]

Good point.

[Niuhuru]

These ingrates don’t see what they have, they only see what they don’t have and what others have earned.

[Jacob Kell]

Actually, that 43.75% Arab bit came from Kenneth Lamb, not Richard Cohen. IMO, Lamb doesn’t strick me as a reputable source. He never offered evidence for his allegations, and when FReeper Beckwith asked for some several times, Lamb never answered him.

I’m reminded of a passage from David Freddoso’s excellent book “The case against Barack Obama”. “Too many of those criticizing Obama have been content merely to slander him,” he writes. False rumors about Obama’s religion and ancestry have produced, Freddoso writes, “an intellectual laziness among the very people who should be carefully scrutinizing Obama.” He writes that the viral and overt smears have allowed Obama to evade substantive criticism.