In April this year while stumping in Raleigh, North Carolina, Barack Obama gave a popular response addressing the acrimony of the previous night's debate. It took the Democratic candidates 45 minutes to address policy issues, and even then, Hillary Clinton took every opportunity to attack him. Obama's response to these attacks the next day was so popular it inspired the following video.
Given what is bound to come now that John McCain has chosen a self-proclaimed lipstick-wearing pit bull as his running mate, Obama's initial strategy may bear repeating.
Now I know some of you would very much rather Obama pull off the gloves and say something, you know, more like this:
But let's be real now. You know damn well a brother can't go out like that! OK, some of 'em do it all the time, but they're not running for president, are they? All right, enough said 'bout that.
Now if only the mainstream media would give real coverage to the McKinney-Clemente ticket. I mean, if we're having this much fun now, imagine if you threw two women of color -- one a hip hop activist -- into the mix.
At the very least, we'd make the next generation's history classes much more, er, colorful than ours ever was. Now that's change you can believe in.
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