Poll: Obama’s race speech a big hit
March 22nd, 2008 at 09:16am Pat Cunningham
More than two-thirds of Americans who have heard or read about Barack Obama’s recent speech say he did a good job addressing the issue of race relations, and 63 percent of voters following the events say they agree with Obama’s views on race relations, according to a CBS NEWS POLL.
Seventy-one percent of respondents said the Democratic presidential front-runner did a good job of explaining his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
POSTSCRIPT: Rush Limbaugh, political guru to America’s mouthbreathers, begs to differ with the majority of respondents in the CBS poll. El Rushbo SAYS Obama “has disowned his white half … he’s decided he’s got to go all in on the black side.”
UPDATE: Fox News also has a POLL showing majority approval of Obama’s race speech. Most respondents don’t think the senator shares Jeremiah Wright’s views and don’t have new doubts about him because of his association with the controversial preacher.
UPDATE II: The Gallup Daily Tracking Poll SHOWS Obama passing Clinton after a deficit of 7 percentage points a few days ago.
Entry Filed under: CBS News poll, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama
7 Comments Add your own
1. Menlo Bob | March 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
Obama was asked to address his silence in the face of a looney pastor. Instead he chose to compare his racist grandmother to his racist pastor while calling for a dialogue on race. What nonsense. One one was stopping him from doing so and yet his appeal was that he refused to become the race candidate.
2. Menlo Bob | March 22nd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
The last sentence above should read ‘No one was stopping him…’
3. Kaus | March 22nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I was watching the movie “Malcomb X” last night. A brilliant movie. Half way through, X makes a speech. In it, he mentions a few black anger thoughts and ends with….”and then the chickens will come home to roost”. Sound familiar…Rev. Wright stealing some X moments. Polls are for suckers. Rusbo is a bag of wind….but he hits a home run once in a while.
4. Pat Cunningham | March 22nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Now you’ve gone WAY, WAY over the top, Kaus. Do you think Malcolm X coined the expression about chickens coming home to roost? I dare say that millions of Americans have used that expression. I heard it in my house when I was growing up, long before I ever heard of Malcolm Little changed his name to Malcolm X. If you put the chickens-coming-home-to-roost term in a Google search field, you get hundreds of thousands of references, the vast majority of which have nothing to do with Wright or Malcolm X or the politics of race.
5. Pat Cunningham | March 22nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Kaus: You might be interested in this:
THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST — Chickens scratch around in the barnyard, in the fields and woods during the day. But at night they come home to the hen-house to roost. This saying is comparing a person’s evil or foolish deeds to chickens. If a person does wrong, the “payback” might not be immediate. But at some point, at the end of the day, those “chickens” will come home to roost. “One has to face the consequences of one’s past actions. In English, the proverb goes back to Chaucer’s ‘Parson’s Tale’ (c 1390). It was also know to Terence (about 190-159 B.C.) First attested in the United States in the ‘Life of Jefferson S. Batkins’ (1871). The proverb is found in varying forms: Curses, like chickens, come home to roost; Sooner or later chickens, come home to roost…” From “Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings” by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
6. Kaus | March 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Pat…watch the movie. And thanks for the additional input. My Obama voting in-laws are with us for several days….they love Pat Cunningham too…but for different reasons than I.
7. Kaus | March 23rd, 2008 at 6:37 am
Rev Wright…friend of Farrakahn…leader of Nation of Islam…creepy. I pulled this from Malcolm X website. note - this speech was delivered before Malcolm left the Nation of Islam and accepted true Islam — so his views in this speech do not reflect his own or those he held near the end of his life.
This speech is sometimes called “The Chickens Come Home To Roost,” because of an answer Malcolm X gave in response to a question following the speech. The question concerned the late President John Kennedy. It was Malcolm X’s answer, that the Presidents death was a case of “chickens coming home to roost” — that the violence that Kennedy had failed to stop had come back to him, this resulted in the Elijah Muhammad silencing him. Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam a short time later.
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