The Associated Press is running a story on the first spate of President Obama’s weekend flurry of appearances under the headline, “Obama: Health care anger not motivated by his race,” but is that really what he said?
Here’s what, according to the AP article, he told CNN:
“Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are,” Obama told CNN. “That’s not the overriding issue here.”
Saying that race is not “the overriding issue” is not, it seems to me, to deny that it’s a big issue, even a motivating issue for some number (many? a few?) of his critics.
