Obama: The Wright "Noise" Creates A Challenge
INDIANAPOLIS – Barack Obama began his final push in the lead-up to the Tuesday primary contests in Indiana and North Carolina by acknowledging the potential damage the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy may have done to his candidacy.
"Obviously we've had to fight through, over the last week, an awful lot of noise. That's, that's just a fact," he said, responding to a question about his biggest worry or weakness heading into Tuesday's primary. He added that he sought to refocus the conversation on the issues.
The senator said he hoped to reach as many people as possible in the coming days, in part to fight what he called a “"caricature” of the Obamas as "elitist, pointy-headed intellectual types."
“I think when you’re running for president you make certain assumptions that people after 15 months really know who you are, and then you realize well maybe there are still a whole bunch of folks who don’t know who you are ... despite the fact that you’re on TV every day,” he said.
"You know, it turns out that not everyone has read my books,” he joked. “It’s shocking.”
Earlier in the roughly 20-minute press conference he said "we have had a rough couple of weeks, I won’t deny that" but said he still enjoyed "terrific support all across Indiana and all across North Carolina" and that voters were more interested in the issues.
He said he thought the race could be close.
"I have no doubt that these are going to be tight races," he said. "This campaign has been tight throughout. But I am very confident that the American people are looking for the kind of truth telling and serious policy making that is going to have an impact on their lives. And as long as I am talking about the issues that matter to them, I think we have a terrific chance."
(NBC/NJ's ATHENA JONES)
It amazes me that everyone's obsessing about Wright, yet right now, Drudge has a link to a video that show deplorable racist comments about Indianans made by Mickey Kantor during the BC campaign, which neither George Stephanopoulos nor James Carville denounce or reject.
How come no one's interested in it?
Because the video is fake.
And didn't Obama just a few days ago damn the politics of guilt by association??
Or is that just the standard that BHO demands for himself?
With the blasting of this fake clip all over the internet by the BHO campaign and his supporters, he has proven Wright right:
Barack Obama (and his Obamaniacs) will do and say anything to get (The Obamessiah) elected.
I am not an Obama voter, in fact. I was just wondering about this, and have now heard about the fake status of the video. I do, however, care about fair reporting.
Grow up people and realize that the media mould
public sentiment how they like.
Its up to the individual to find the truth.
Its obvious that Wright is a crackpot.