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The Times - Barack Obama - the path is still long and treacherous
The Illinois senator’s journey through the primaries has left him limping in the election that really matters, by Gerard Baker

Only the most gnarled cynic, or a member of the Clinton family (but I repeat myself), could fail to be moved by Barack Obama’s historic triumph in the Democratic primary this week.

Pfff

Now it’s a new contest. Mr Obama has been blooded – and bloodied – by the long primary. If he is to climb the last steps to Dr King’s mountaintop, he has to overcome at least three significant challenges.

The first is the real identity of this man who has emerged from nowhere to the threshold of the White House. The scrutiny so far has helped to unearth some of it – his iffy Chicago connections, the Rev Jeremiah Wright’s sulphurous locutions – but there is more to come. His wife, I suspect, is going to be a problem. The more that is revealed of her true feelings about race in America, the greater light Michelle Obama will shed on her husband’s own views and character.

Yeah… About that… Where the heck is this video we’ve been promised?! Lord at first I was just all “Meh” but if you’re gonna keep talkin about it you’d better show us the damned thing!

Update:

Fine, thank you for somebody finally putting an end to this.