Why did Senator Obama sit still for – let
alone break bread with – a man who insulted
his mother?
Why did Senator Obama congregate for more than 20 years with a man who
repeatedly insulted Obama’s mother and her
people in front of his wife and children – who
told those children their grandmother and her people were, in effect,
evil?
These are the questions the media’s not yet
asking of Senator Barack Obama, according to political PR analyst Ned
Barnett, who’s worked on two Presidential
campaigns. But they will.
“Senator Obama made his choice,”
Barnett, Las Vegas-based Barnett Marketing Communications’
CEO, said in his PR and Politics blog: http://barnettonpolitics.blogspot.com/
or http://barnettonpolitics.blogtownhall.com/.
“Senator Obama attended Trinity for 20 years
while Reverend Wright made one offensive statement after another. Now
the Senator’s in the communications crisis of
his life.
“Widely known as the ‘post-racial’
candidate bringing the races together and defusing the entire issue of
race in politics, Senator Obama is now having to explain his 20-year
devotion to a controversial pastor who is anything but ‘post-racial,’”
Barnett, a frequent guest on talk radio and cable news programs, noted. “Reverend
Wright blames ‘rich white people’
like Obama’s white mother and grandparents
for all the ills of the earth – which means
that Wright was, in effect, dissing Obama’s
mother in front of his two impressionable daughters.
“From a PR perspective, if he wants to be
President, Senator Obama has a lot of explaining to do to America’s
voters,” Barnett said in his blog. “He
needs to explain – as a ‘post-racial’
candidate – why he chose to associate himself
for years with a blatant racist who blames “rich
white Americans,” presumably including the
Senator’s mother and wealthy grandparents,
for all of America’s ills. Because Senator
Obama’s campaigning on judgment instead of
experience, he’ll need more than a denial, a
denunciation or a repudiation to explain away 20 years of questionable
decisions and politically-dubious associations.
“I’m glad I’m
not Senator Obama’s spokesman today,”
Barnett’s blog concluded. “It
will take more spinning than an Illinois twister to make these decisions
and choices go away.”
Ned Barnett is available to discuss this or other PR-related campaign
issues: 702-696-1200 or ned@barnettmarcom.com.
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