{"id":496,"date":"2008-04-07T10:16:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T10:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/wright-in-the-long-run.html"},"modified":"2008-04-07T10:16:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T10:16:50","slug":"wright-in-the-long-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/04\/wright-in-the-long-run.html","title":{"rendered":"Super-Delegates Worried Over Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"obama33.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/obama33.gif\" width=\"136\" \/>The headline from today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120752539182393613.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, <strong>Obama May Not Have Fully Contained Damage From Ex-Pastor<\/strong>, is mostly undercut by the article that appears beneath it, which cites polls, voters, and super-delegates who say the Jeremiah Wright flap has not dampened their enthusiasm for Obama.<br \/>\nBut the lead anecdote offers <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/wright-on-delegates-minds.html\">more evidence that some super-delegates are worried<\/a> that the GOP will exploit Wright heading into November, making them more receptive to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s argument that she&#8217;s more electable:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Barack Obama&#8217;s Philadelphia speech on race relations last month seemed to put the controversial remarks of his former pastor behind him. But three weeks later, there is evidence of lingering damage.<br \/>\n&#8220;It has not been defused,&#8221; says David Parker, a North Carolina Democratic Party official and unpledged superdelegate. He says his worries about Republicans questioning Sen. Obama&#8217;s patriotism prompted him to raise the issue of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.&#8217;s remarks in conversations with both the Obama and Clinton campaigns.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m concerned about seeing Willie Horton ads during the general election,&#8221; Mr. Parker says, referring to campaign ads that Republicans widely credited for helping defeat Michael Dukakis in 1988. Mr. Parker said the Wright controversy didn&#8217;t hurt his opinion of Mr. Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline from today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, Obama May Not Have Fully Contained Damage From Ex-Pastor, is mostly undercut by the article that appears beneath it, which cites polls, voters, and super-delegates who say the Jeremiah Wright flap has not dampened their enthusiasm for Obama. 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