SocraticGadfly: Steve Benen gets Obama’s ‘historicity’ wrong

August 27, 2008

Steve Benen gets Obama’s ‘historicity’ wrong

Sorry, Steve, but contra your breathlessness over the alleged historicity of Barack Obama’s nomination …

Cynthia McKinney beat him by a month.

Benen’s exact quote:
Barack Obama, claiming a prize never held by a black American, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination.

Yes, he’s talking about the Democratic nomination to be technical, but, by putting the adjectival clause first, it seems clear to me Benen is referring to the historicity of the moment in general.

And he’s wrong.

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