The Corner

by Walter Alarkon - 07/10/08 9:08 AM ET

Rev. Jesse Jackson’s trashing of Barack Obama for supposedly lecturing the black community should help Obama with conservatives, writes Kathryn Jean Lopez. Those voters may think that anyone ticking off Jackson, especially about fatherhood, can’t be that bad, she writes. Obama, however, may be risking his fundraising base, small online donors, by voting for a foreign surveillance bill that includes telecom immunity, writes Mark Hemingway, who also posts angry comments about Obama’s vote by liberal bloggers.

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