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Obama's speech: the center-right reacts

The speech:

For center-right reaction, see Charles Murray (favorable), Don Surber (mixed) and Jules Crittenden (critical).

Whatever the merits, or lack thereof, of his speech, the controversy over his pastor’s incendiary rhetoric has damaged Obama permanently. Whether it has also damaged him seriously is too early to say. But it’s never good when 36% of independents have had their impression of you altered for the worse.