Lanny Davis was Bill Clinton’s most faithful spinmeister and excuse-maker on talk shows during the Monica Lewinsky affair. He’s being just as disingenuous today on Huffington Post about Barack Obama’s speech yesterday. He opens the post thusly:
I am convinced that there isn’t a shred in Senator Obama’s being that shares these hateful or bigoted feelings. And I respect his strong words denouncing the views of a man for whom he has deep and genuine feelings of affection and loyalty, which I also respect.
And then he asks two questions he says Obama should answer before becoming the Democratic standard bearer:
1. If a white minister preached sermons to his congregation and had used the “N” word and used rhetoric and words similar to members of the KKK, would you support a Democratic presidential candidate who decided to continue to be a member of that congregation?
2. Would you support that candidate if, after knowing of or hearing those sermons, he or she still appointed that minister to serve on his or her “Religious Advisory Committee” of his or her presidential campaign?
Those questions don’t sound to me like they’re coming from someone who believes there “isn’t a shred in Obama’s being” that agrees with the racist demagogue pastor Jeremiah Wright, with whom Obama has a 20-year relationship.
