Must be something to it.
And here they are again today:
"Obama asks country to come together right now"
PLAINFIELD, Ind. - Senator Barack Obama yesterday decried "the forces of division" over race that he said are intruding on the Democratic presidential nomination contest.
"We have to come together," he told a town-hall meeting at a high school.
Obama cited inflammatory remarks made by his pastor that are now being used as political ammunition against him - remarks that Obama has denounced.
"If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked," Obama said.
Obama suggested that more and more is being made of racial divisions as his contest with Senator Hillary Clinton heats up.
"The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again," Obama said.
"It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things."
The Illinois senator's comments came a day after he denounced statements appearing on television and on the Internet by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of the Chicago church Obama joined nearly 20 years ago.
Obama said that pointing out racial differences only makes it harder to "deliver on the big issues we face in this country," which he said include healthcare, the slumping economy, terrorism, and caring better for veterans.
He said schools should do a better job of teaching all students African-American history "because that's part of American history," as well as women's struggle for equality, the history of unions, the role of Hispanics, and other matters that he suggested are not given enough attention.
"I want us to have a broad-based history" taught in schools, he said, including more on "the Holocaust as well as other issues of oppression" around the world (AP March 16, 2008)."
Ooooh, that last statement will COST HIM!
NOTHING is MORE IMPORTANT, nor can be compared to the Jewish Holocaust™!
