Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
One reader has taken me to task, accusing me of ‘defending’ Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Anonymous (which is fine) wrote about my post Sound Bites versus Reality: Carter, before you act as a knee jerk apologist for Wright and Obama, you may want to look at that church’s website, which bases its “theology” on a black…
Saturday’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner was the biggest ever in North Carolina. And the most divided. When the Governor gets booed, you know feelings run high. It’s like those state Republican conventions back in the 1970s when the moderates and the Jessecrats were at war. Can the split be healed by November? My guess is that it…
Jeremiah Wright has Swift-boated Barack Obama. Obama’s boat may not be sinking, but he will be foundering if Hillary wins Indiana and keeps it close in North Carolina. The North Carolina Democrats who support Clinton deny her campaign is about race. They (or, at least, most of them) sincerely don’t want it to be about…
Since the Trojan Horse the divergence between appearance versus reality has been a motif in literature. The beast turns out to be a prince. The three witches tell Macbeth he’s safe until Birnham Wood moves to Dunsaine Hill. Which appears impossible. But happens. Today it could be Sound Bite versus Reality. And Reverend Jeremiah Wright…
When WRAL asked former Governor Jim Hunt about this year’s Democratic governor’s race it was like old times. Hunt opined about the virtues of positive campaigning: Candidates ought to say what they’d do. What they stand for. How they’d move North Carolina forward. (It was like a flashback to thirty years ago.) Then the governor…
Wachovia Bank just agreed to pay $144 million to settle a fraud case. (According to the newspapers it was alleged they allowed telemarketers to use Wachovia accounts to steal millions of dollars.) The bank did not plead guilty or admit guilt, which, in itself, is a commentary on our legal system. How can anyone agree…
Talk about being the center of the political universe. North Carolina was it Tuesday. Barack Obama’s press conference on Jeremiah Wright could turn out to be the pivotal event of the presidential campaign. Unfortunately, that event – and two others the same day – was all about the issue that forever taints our politics: race.…
Richard Moore needs a bomb to blow up Bev Perdue’s lead. But the problem with a bomb is that it can go off in your hands. That appears to be what happened with his Ku Klux Klan ad. The ad was a reach to start with. When voters hear, in effect, that Perdue voted with…
I’ll make two predictions about this election. One I’m sure about; the other, not so much. Not Sure: This could be a change election like 1960, 1968, 1980 or 1994 – with the impact felt for decades. Sure: The Democratic Party is growing increasingly anti-corporate. Only one thing can keep 2008 from being a watershed:…
Exactly 80 years ago, in 1946, Republicans took control of Congress with a simple message: “Had…
Jim Hunt would like James Talarico winning the Democratic primary in Texas. Like Talarico, the late…
