1999 February 14, Michael J. Gerson, “Strangers in a Strange Land”, in U.S. News & World Report[1], volume 126, page 32:
Some moderate Republican operatives argue that their presidential candidate next year may benefit from a "Sister Souljah" moment, picking a public fight with social conservatives, as Bill Clinton did in 1992 with the liberal wing of his own party.
2004 April 13, Sheryll Cassin, The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream, Public Affairs, →ISBN, →OL, page 279:
For me, one of the relatively few black people in the room, it was a minor “Sister Souljah moment.”
No one knows how she'll vote on John Roberts, so this could be her own Sister Souljah moment - will she break with the hard-line left on Judge Roberts?
2008 June 17, “Barack Obama's painful truth”, in Boston Herald:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had his Sister Souljah moment Sunday. Yes, the message of his Father's Day speech at a largely black church on Chicago's South Side was aimed at black fathers, who he said are "missing from too many lives and too many homes.
2008 July 10, Dan Balz, “Obama's Accidental Sister Souljah Moment”, The Trail, in The Washington Post[3]:
He finally had his Sister Souljah moment and didn't even have to show up. Jesse Jackson did it for him solo.
2010 September 19, “Our Opinion — Looking for Sister Souljah in Minnesota”, in Grand Forks Herald, North Dakota:
Since then, "Sister Souljah moments" in politics are said to take place when politicians chastise, distance themselves from or otherwise stand up to a core constituency, often in a way that appeals to centrist or moderate voters.
The embodiment of the no-compromise style the public disdains, Bachmann seems congenitally incapable of such a move unless it's a reverse Sister Souljah moment, where she castigates her party for being insufficiently beholden to its base.
2012 June 1, Paul McGeough, “This is Romney's campaign to lose”, in The Age[5], Melbourne, →ISSN:
Elements of the commentariat are demanding a Sister Souljah moment from Mitt Romney. The call harks back to 1992 when candidate Bill Clinton gave the African-American rapper a jab in the ribs for her crazy call for a week in which blacks would kill whites, instead of each other.
2012 August 6, Nusholtz, “Romney Could Use a Sister Souljah Moment[comment]”, in The New Republic[6]:
Romney passed up so many Sister Souljah moments that for him to do so now would be just another flip flop.
Determined to get that office, to get that house, he's shown not a single "Sister Souljah" moment, not a moment of independence from the people to whom he's sworn his allegiance.
