your politics aside...answer honestly, will obama's campaign survive..

[ThePrezMex]

The reason it caught attention this week was because for the first time it was reported by mainstream media in prime time, specifically ABC News in Good Morning America. I posted the link to the clip in another thread. Why it hadn't caught attention in mainstream media in the past is a good question, but when I looked yesterday for that clip on YouTube I found many other clips about precisely this that are several months old.

Now, could we, for once, at least do what this thread say and put our politics aside and try to keep analyzing this in a more neutral way (at least in this thread)? I think J.J. and Sam (as always) have been doing a good job about this.

Will the obama campaign survive? I think one of the first tests would be how it is treated in the Sunday news shows. Fox News and ABC's This Week already passed and now Meet the Press is starting.
This was commented for several minutes in Fox and there was no positive comment for obama among the panelists (actually even Juan Williams was pretty harsh) - please save the comments of: oh, of course, what you expected of Fox News. It's just a statement of coverage.
One of the panelists said that it was telling that the Clinton campaign was not even touching this since it had its own life and didn't need any more fuel to keep going. Bill Kristol said that the media was not going to keep it alive if the Clinton campaign didn't talk about this - not until the general election at least. But the consensus was that it could be potentially pretty bad for obama.
In This Week, George Will naturally said this was very disturbing. Mark Halperin of Time (and The Page) did acknowledge it could be very serious - but they gave it only a fraction of the time than Fox News did.
Let's see how Meet the Press treats this.

So far, it did reached the Sunday news cycle.. not as imperceptibly as obama supporters would have hoped and not as prominently as obama detractors might have liked.

I think how this damages obama the most is in the topics he's running on: good judgment and unity, as well as his credibility by saying that he wasn't aware of Wright's sermons.