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Here we go again: Obama and the Philadelphia Gay News

Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 01:54:46 PM PDT

I'm going to throw this one out there because I'll bet someone on herer knows the back story to this, but, apparently Philadelphia Gay News published white space on its front page because it didn't have an interview with Barack Obama to publish.  It did have an interview with Clinton.  

See here and here.

The publisher of the PGN, Mark Segal, says that he tried to get an interview with Obama but was, in essence, given the run around ("scheduling problems").  

I'd like to know if there is another side to this, because this is starting to feel very, very familiar.  And although I strongly believe that Obama is the best Democratic candidate this year, this really undercuts my enthusiasm.    

Segal said:

The surprise to us was the Obama campaign. When we realized we weren’t getting very far with them, we decided to enlist other people — who are supporting Senator Obama — to assist us. These people happen to be some of his superdelegates and his strongest political supporter in the state: [U.S. Senator] Robert Casey and congressman Pat Murphy. All of whom advised him this was an interview he should do.
We were told there had been scheduling problems. We’ve been told this now for weeks.

So here we are -- on the verge of knocking Clinton out of the campaign if she looses in Pennsylvania -- and we are closing the gap every day.  Every vote counts and yet it once again the story is a core Dem constituency is feeling dissed.

This feels to me, again, like McClurkin redux. But before I jump to that conclusion, someone here please tell me why I'm drawing the wrong conclusion here.

Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Philadelphia Gay News, Donnie McClurkin, Primary, Pennsylvania (all tags) :: Previous Tag Versions

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