August 01, 2007 @ 6:30 pm

Washington Post on Obama, New Era of Black Politicians

Email this article Print this article Send us a tip

Post piece uses Booker and Patrick as a political gauge for Obama's future.

Today's Washington Post contrasts Senator Obama's campaign methods, and political success, to those of present former black politicians - particularly Deval L. Patrick, who became the first black governor of Massachusetts, and Cory Booker, present mayor of troubled Newark. The piece reads: "In winning election as the first African American governor in Massachusetts, Patrick showed the appeal that a candidate with his background and message has for white New England liberals -- a potentially good omen for Obama in the New Hampshire primary. "But the experience of another black politician with a similar background -- Newark mayor Cory Booker, a Yale Law School graduate and a Rhodes Scholar whose relations with his African American constituents have been at times difficult -- gives a hint of the challenge that Obama faces in wresting black support from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)." Read the rest here. What do you think?

Page printed from:
http://www.vibe.com/obama/2007/08/barack_obama_wapo/

Return to previous page