Glen Ford:

Obama was less than eloquent. "All it was is a bunch of rants that aren't grounded in truth," said Sen. Obama, low-rating Rev. Wright's remarks at the National Press Club, in Washington, the morning before. Rev. Wright had become a "caricature" of himself, said the wounded candidate - another way of calling the minister a clown.

Under questioning from reporters in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Obama swore up and down that he had never before, in 16 years as a member of Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ congregation, observed his pastor behave in such a way. The declaration rang patently false, as even a red-state Republican white evangelical observer would have recognized Wright's Press Club performance as that of veteran pulpit-master with a vast repertoire of church-pleasing moves and grooves to draw upon, all of them honed over decades for the entertainment of his parishioners - including Obama. But the senator was intent on giving the impression that Rev. Wright was - unbeknownst to Obama - a Jekyll and Hyde character, whose statements "were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate."

An amazingly Bush-like turn of phrase! The man who married Barack and Michelle and baptized their children is now rhetorically linked to Osama bin Laden or the Ku Klux Klan.

Clearly, this is what panic looks and sounds like when Obama's flimsy tissues of "race neutrality" are stripped away.

Interesting. As I keep saying, I don't know the players here, but it seems clear tp me that Ford, in this post, is expressing a richer and more grounded experience than Obama (or his supporters).

Lest anyone imagine that Corrente is all about the snark, contributor DCBlogger has been putting together a remarkable, daily series of posts on single payer. Fascinating stuff, with a ferment of action at the state and local level.

So, I've gathered DCB's posts together into a book.

Via Taylor Marsh, here's the part of Clinton's interview that aired tonight. I don't know if I would say she takes Fox on, since she doesn't attack the network, but she does a good job (for the most part) of defending herself and her policies from O'Reilly. I'm not sure, but I think she got O'Reilly to admit that he'd be willing to pay more in taxes and subsidize at least some uninsured people. She did have an obvious advantage, she's smarter than he is (and it showed). Judge for yourselves:

Texas' DFPS officials say they have evidence that children taken from the Eldorado FLDS compound had broken bones, and that based on interviews with the kids and journals found at the ranch, some of the boys were sexually abused.
A lawyer for the church denies the claims, saying it's the result of a disease among the sect's children.