Even as he’s maintained a solid #2 position in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination, Barack Obama’s supporters, including me, are wondering what’s next after months of trailing an awful candidate like Hillary Clinton, and now this:
‘The whole controversy might have been forgotten in the swell of gospel sound except Mr. McClurkin turned the final half hour of the three-hour concert into a revival meeting about the lightning rod he has become for the Obama campaign.
He approached the subject gingerly at first. Then, just when the concert had seemed to reach its pitch and about to end, Mr. McClurkin returned to it with a full-blown plea: “Don’t call me a bigot or anti-gay when I have suffered the same feelings,” he cried.
“God delivered me from homosexuality,” he added. He then told the audience to believe the Bible over the blogs: “God is the only way.” The crowd sang and clapped along in full support….’
[article nytimes.com via Americablog; photo by Virgf78 via Flickr]
This McClurkin is not a cool guy, and Obama should have seen this coming and stopped it. Or..? People are starting to re-think their support–and Obama had built a large liberal base. Not looking good for his campaign for the next few weeks. Not that I like Hillary, or John Edwards either. Is the Democratic field starting to look almost as weak as the Republican one? That would be scary.
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