William Jelani Cobb asks: “Why it is that a group of progressives would spend about 40 minutes discussing how to critique Barack and virtually no time discussing how to elect him?”
Perhaps the most biting irony is a kind of reverse affirmative action, where Obama seems to face a higher bar for support than the white candidates who preceded him. The Congressional Black Caucus and black progressives asked virtually nothing from Kerry (at least not publicly) and not much more from Gore, yet a former civil rights attorney who has litigated employment and voting discrimination cases has to pass a “good faith” test.
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