Taking On the Race Issue the Issue: Obama Addresses It in Eloquent Fashion. Our View: Candidate Is a 'Standup Guy.'

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The revised standard manual of running for president says forcefully that when someone in or close to your campaign becomes an issue, you cut that person loose quickly and completely and head on down the road and never look back. The wisdom of this political brutality has been proved over and over, as candidates who clung too long to a toxic associate have learned to their dismay.

The problem with running as a new and different kind of candidate is that when trouble comes you can't resort to the well-thumbed playbook without looking like a same-old, same-old candidate.

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Taking On the Race Issue the Issue: Obama Addresses It in Eloquent Fashion. Our View: Candidate Is a 'Standup Guy.'

Thus it was instructive to see how Barack Obama handled the first real setback o...

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