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Was It Michelle?

Carol Platt Liebau | May 06, 2008 12:20 PM

Christopher Hitchens speculates that a good deal of the responsibility for the Wright fiasco is attributable to Michelle Obama, and notes the radical overtones of her senior thesis.

I couldn't agree more. As I wrote here on March 18:

[I]t would be interesting to know Michelle Obama's views on Wright. Given some of her earlier remarks and even the topic of her senior thesis, it's worth asking whether her views on race in America might be a bit more confrontational than her husband's . . ..