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Monday, January 14, 2008
Obama Takes the High Road
Obama's high-mindedness in trying to stamp out some of the rancor and bitterness let loose by the Clintons over the last week is inspiring and another great reason to support his transformational candidacy. See below.
Obama, putting out the fire (Ben Smith via Andrew Sullivan)
Carrie Budoff Brown has some key quotes from an Obama event this afternoon in Reno, where he tried to put to rest the racially-charged name-calling.
You have seen a tone on the Democrat[ic] side of the campaign that has been unfortunate. I want to stipulate a couple of things. I may disagree with Senator Clinton and Senator Edwards on how to get there, but we share the same goals. We all believe in civil rights. We all believe in equal rights. They are good people. They are patriots...
I don't want the campaign at this stage to degenerate to so much tit-for-tat, back-and-forth, that we lose sight of why we are doing this.
Obama said he wants to send "a strong signal to my own supporters that let’s try to focus on the work that needs to get done. If I hear my own supporters engaging in talk that I think is ungenerous or misleading or unfair, I will speak out forcefully against it...
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have historically been on the right side of civil rights issues. They care about the African American community... That is something I am convinced of. I want Americans to know that is my assessment.
His surrogates and a spokeswoman have, it's worth noting, participated in the recent round of criticism of the Clintons, and in the suggestions that the Clintons have engaged in a "pattern" of racially-charged comments.
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