Monday November 10, 2008 at 10:44
“Yeah, and the only one who was calm was Obama. And he said, ‘You know what? I’m gonna make a speech about race and talk about Jeremiah Wright and the perspective of the larger issue. And either people will accept it or I won’t be president of the United States. But at least I’ll have said what I think needs to be said.’”
— David Axelrod on President-Elect Barack Obama’s response to the Jeremiah Wright flap during the primary. According to Robert Gibbs there was no discussion, he just did it.
