Outrage comes too easily for the Democrats
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Saturday, June 30, 2007 | The Boston Globe
” THURSDAY NIGHT’S debate was too easy for the Democratic presidential candidates. Before a hugely black audience at Howard University, they bashed the Supreme Court decision ending voluntary desegregation. They lambasted the Bush administration’s bungling of Hurricane Katrina. Barack Obama said you can’t have No Child Left Behind if you leave the money behind. The biggest cheer of the night came when Hillary Clinton said, “If AIDS were the leading cause of death between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country.”
That is precisely the point. Playing to the outraged is child’s play for the Democrats, so easy that John Edwards, he of the $400 haircut, claimed with a straight face, “The issue of poverty is the cause of my life.” All the candidates said poverty, healthcare, and education were connected. What they did not say is how they would make this connection with white, middle-class, and suburban voters….”…BS
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