Obama, Racism, and Evangelicals

October 31, 2008 by Taylor Marshall  
Filed under Faith, Headlines, Politics

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article entitled “The Obama Dilemma” by WILFRED M. MCCLAY

McClay notes that Obama supporters are already asserting that an Obama loss on Tuesday will be accounted for by American racism, particularly Evangelical Christian racism.

Excerpt:

Slate columnist Jacob Weisberg has already published the indictment pre-emptively, in an Aug. 23 article subtly titled “If Obama Loses, Racism is the Only Reason McCain Might Beat Him.” Nowhere will this charge be made more angrily than against the evangelical Protestant community.

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