Monday, March 17, 2008

Obama and "God Bless America"

As the controversy over the statements of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright exploded onto the national scene last week, perhaps the most inflammatory comment was one that could be played in a 5 second sound bite: "Not God Bless America, but God damn America"(source).

In trying to manage the fallout from these inflammatory comments, Barack Obama has added a little closing line to some of his speeches. For the first time in the entire campaign, Barack Obama closed a speech with "God Bless You and God Bless America" (source). Obviously, Obama is trying to tacitly blunt the fallout from Rev. Wright's comments.

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