Mr. Obama, We Have a Question
By SusanUnPC on March 16, 2008 at 11:45 PM in Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Why won’t you release your schedule that notes the dates when you attended church and heard the sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright?
We want the facts, sir. Just the facts. You deny being present at any of the controversial sermons given by Rev. Wright. For example, you say you were not at the July 22 service. But what about all the rest of the sermons you heard as a 20-year congregant? You can deny that you ever heard Rev. Wright’s incendiary, racist sermons, from now until the end of time, but you need to provide proof, sir. Especially since you were a regular congregant, you gave large annual donations ($22,500 in 2006), he married you and Michelle, he baptized both of your daughters, he blessed your home, and you frequently refer to him as your “spiritual mentor” and more.
Dear Readers: It’s reminiscent of Obama’s failure to provide policy analyst Steve Clemons with a list of the countries in Europe he falsely claims he has visited. Clemons asked because he, and others like Salon’s Joe Conason, are shocked that Obama has failed to convene a single meaningful hearing as chair of the European Affairs subcommittee for the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Policy committee or to have visited European countries. Obama’s excuse is that he’s been too busy campaigning. But he did claim to have visited Europe. However, he won’t supply his passport list, as Joe Conason points out in “Obama’s European problem“:
If Obama wants to show where he has been, he merely has to release his passport records. Then everyone would know that his boast about traveling extensively in Europe is true — even if this year he didn’t have time to convene a hearing on the momentous issues affecting our relations with that continent and the world.
Then there are his records for his years in the Illinois state senate. He doesn’t have them. Doesn’t know where they are. Countless reporters — from the Sun-Times’s Lynn Sweet to the Associated Press — have lobbied Sen. Obama to supply those records, but he claims to have no records.
UPDATE: I never thought I’d say this, but Sean Hannity makes sense here. And so does panelist Tony Blankley (formerly editor of the Washington Times). That’s because Hannity is relying on factually verifiable statements — statements that Barack Obama is unable to refute. And Blankley’s observations are spot on:
And here’s CNN’s Lou Dobbs on Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright. It is NOT that we need either of these videos as proof — it is to provide evidence that the American people are seeing this video over and over and over again, and are appalled by Obama’s association with Rev. Wright, and will not buy his attempts to “minimize” his 20-year relationship with Wright.
Quibbling about sources like Newsmax, etc. does not cut it. The American people will hear the WORDS of Rev. Wright and be deeply shocked and troubled. They will no longer be able to support a candidate who endorsed, financed, and attended the services of such an angry, racist preacher.
A British newspaper ran a story that the only time Obama visited Europe was a overnight stop in London
on the way back from another trip…..I think it was to China to look at the loose nukes situation on a bill he was working on with Lugar.
That’s about right.
What’s Obama hiding? Why won’t he supply these? Certainly he has a schedule and a scheduler that keeps track of those dates. Too bad they can’t be subpoenaed.
Too bad they can’t be subpoenaed.
He might not have them, but Fitzgerald does….
Here is the link to the London Times story on Obama’s overnight in Europe. They don’t think much of his foreign experience.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3080794.ece
If we are all not on the phone in the morning to Pelosi’s office ..and ripping her a new one ..and telling her exactly what we think of her “pick ” of our nominee..then we deserve what we get!
I will be on the phone to her and Deans office and i am letting them have it! I am damn sick and tired of my money being pissed away by the dem party ..doing this crap to us.
I am mad as hell and not taking it anymore!
Obama is hateful..and he is a habitual liar..and i will be damned if i will allow the dem party do this to my country any longer!
I heard a talking head this morning say..well the Dem leadership is convinced they will get the women back if they make Obama our nominee..well i will tell them this..they will never get me or my checkbook back,.nor my grunt work for them..I am done with this party for good ..that means forever..if they do this to us again!
And Pelosi and Dean ..i will use the money i have always donated.. to help anyone who runs against you, to see you removed from office!
Put that on your table Nancy!
Every Thusday Cindy has a table setup in front of her office in SF…maybe we can get her a web cam.
What the heck, I hear SF is wireless.
I’ll be calling her too. I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore. I can’t believe how irresponsible this woman is, and I will do everything in my power to get her out of office. I live in SF so I have a voice, and I will tell all my friends to vote against her.
I’ll be standing right next to you!!!
I tried numerous times to send Pelosi emails and they’ve all bounced back. I did get one through to the DNC and received an email back saying they would pass mine on to the Dean, but I’m sure he could give a rat’s ass.
After being a Dem for almost forty years, sending donations, pounding sidewalks, I’m done. Nancy Pelosi et al can have Barack Obama and all the friggin kool aid they can drink.
My emails didn’t bounce back, but I also got no replies, so they’re probably in the ether.
I was also a long time Dem but I gave it up in 2000, when they didn’t support Gore fully over the FL recount. Frankly, it’s better as an Independent and since I live in TX I can still vote in primaries anyway.
Something is weird…
Use
http://speaker.house.gov/contact/
and ignore their reply asking you to email to
the AmericanVoices address.
Actually, he does give a rat’s ass if you must know. And I say that based on my own experience communicating with the DNC.
Does Obama sound like George W. when it comes to his records?
They probably trashed all of the pertinent e-mails…or used non-traceable e-mail accounts.
What jerks!
It’s always the cover-up that gets ‘ya. You would have thought they would have learned that by now. And the fact that they haven’t is scary!
Wow. If he seriously lied about visiting Europe (excluding any overnight stops) how can we trust his word at all??? Who the hell lies about visiting foreign countries?
Maybe Rev. Wright doesn’t approve of his congregation members visting any European countries where those damn white people killed black Jesus.
Remember all the mileage Obama got from his phony “Hillary insulted the memory of MLKjr!” crap before the South Carolina primary?
When is the media going to point out that Obama has spent the last twenty years attending a church whose minister insulted the memory of MLKjr every single week?
What are the odds that Obama and Rezko used the same realtor?
While your at it Barak
1) Please release your tax returns for the last 20 years. Whats fair is fair.
2) Please give us names on the list Rezko asked you to send to the Governor, as you stated in your Tribune interview that you sent one, but you did not have a “big ward operation”.
3)Please provide us with copies of the
trust documents, Trust No 10209., for your “blessed mansion” and the phone records of Michelle Obama calling the Wondisfords in 2004 and early 2005.
4)Please tell us what it was like meeting Auchi in 2004. The man who financed your buddy, to buy the lot you had Rezko buy.
Soooooo Obama is on the European Affairs subcommittee yet he’s never been to Europe…yup, he’d make a GREAT republican president.
This is priceless. The Wall Street Journal’s article is calling Wright’s sermons “blunt…metaphors.”
They state,
“Mr. Wright, Sen. Obama’s blunt-speaking pastor, who is about to retire, may sound spiteful to some, they are rooted in the history of black protest and a Christian theology shared by some African-American churches.”
May sound “spiteful?” OMG. Now they’re characterizing his anti-American, anti-Semitic rants as some kind of African American Primal Therapy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120571815933840625.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Let’s not forget that he called Hillary a bitch at the end of his drooling hate filled rant.
That part of his speech is getting no attention.
And I continue to fume. My most recent battle with someone over racism was over their use of a racial joke involving skin color. And my argument was “how would a black child feel if they heard that joke?”
Now I am asking “how would my white child feel if he heard that sermon?”
No racism! Period. Not white on black. Not black on white. It should be a dictum applied across the board. Mr. Wright should have no more license to spread this level of hate any more than David Duke does. And Duke would have been carted off to jail had he spoken this way openly.
Mr. Wright does not have the right to emotionally or psychologically espouse such racist, hateful and myopic theological rantings on my children any more than than David Duke does.
Neither serve white, black, brown, yellow, red …
Anyone with half a brain knows that hate begets hate. The Middle East has been teaching us this for centuries now.
Pelosi and the current head of the Democratic party are so not “Old Mutual.” –snark–
I keep pointing out the bright side. We needed to see who the strong leaders are in our party. When this is all said and done, we will have a very good idea who to keep and who to kick to the curb.
My guess is that Hillary will be cleaning house. Leave it to a woman. And, that she has made no overt offers to Pelosi and others. That Hillary may want to see a different leadership (Wouldn’t you seeing who they are finally?) because we need that level of change.
I have been thinking thay Pelosi and her Don Knotts Gang are running a little scared.
Bill started building a bridge to the 21st Century. Hillary is going to help us cross it.
Ronald Kessler a journalist that has covered Wright and Obama claims that Obama was at Trinity on July 22, 2007. This is reported in W. Kristol ( yes, I know)
op-ed piece today in the NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/opinion/17kristol.html?hp
You know, I’m going to take Sen. Obama at his word that he wasn’t at church on July 22, 2007.
After all, it would be courting bad karma to lie about such a thing. And if he was there, surely at least one of the Rev. Wright’s multitudes would have noticed and told someone otherwise.
It would be a really dumb lie, because the potential for easy refutation is great — and while Barack Obama may be a lot of things he is certainly nobody’s fool.
That said, Once again, the opportunistic Mr. Obama has been caught in classic political double-talk. In January 2007, he’s publicly embracing his minister of 20 years as a mentor; in March 2008 he’s condemning the very same man’s remarks delivered over the years, and feigning shock that the reverend could have ever said such hateful and controversial things from his own pulpit.
Well, if Obama managed to miss all of that while he and his family are active members of the Trinity congregation, the question simply begs to be asked: Was he dozing through Sunday services, as I’ve been wont to do myself occasionally at Sunday mass?
And if he was, then how in the world did he manage that feat while the Rev. Wright’s mouth was at full throttle?
Sounds like Obama wants to be that most dangerous of creatures - a bullsh*t artist with power … just like gwbush.
Obama sounds like a habitual liar and con man like the character Paul in Six Degrees of Separation. I wonder what else he’s claimed to do but actually never did worth a darn.
Susan,
The Hannity video is no longer available. Could it be accessible at another link?
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
I’m guessing the Lou Dobbs clip featuring Ron Kessler is the first time someone from NEWSMAX.COM has been favorably featured on this website.
Presumably this is an example of the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” philosophy.
Or maybe it is a case of ‘even if he is the enemy, if you don’t admit it when he is right how will people trust you when you say that he is wrong?’
There seem to be a whole lot of questions that Senator Obama is unwilling to answer. How does that make him an agent of “change”? Sound like the same old political b.s. to me.
As for disapproving of the things his Paster said while still attending that church? Hogwash!
Years ago a friend went to confession and the Priest basically blamed her for the fact that her husband physically abused her regularly. “What did you do to make him so mad” was the gist of it. I never went back to that church. You see, Senator Obama, words can often tell us something about the speaker and thus, yes, they do matter. And how we react to them matters too. Staying in that church would seem to indicate an acceptance of the words.
If the Republicans do not succeed in Dukakis-izing or McGovern-izing Obama, Wright gives them a great opportunity to Malcolm X-ize him. The Democratic Party does not need this albatross around its neck.
Quoting notoriously inaccurate rightwing news outlets to attack Obama? How shameful.
Hannity, Blankley, Dobbs, Newsmax, Fox News….used to support your side…
Disgusting.
All I can say is, every time I decide to support the Democratic nominee, no matter who it is, and I come here…..I change my mind and think I can never support Clinton because she has supporters like SusanHu and Larry. Along with the disturbing bunch that posts here.
Nobody cares Dave, you don’t get it.
Really.
Look at Cheney’s fools, in seven years, they have ostensibly handed the Chinese and Russians an asymmetric victory. Read Larry’s post from yesterday. And Cheney operates just like you.
You’re just as stupid, you just don’t get it, despite your weak troll attempts.
Now come back with more garbage.
I knew you would…
Good boy.
well I can see how you would decide not to support a candidate based on what someone that is not connected to her campaign and people that are in no way speaking for her are saying on a blog.
Evidently you don’t have the intellect or the integrity to make your own decisions based on what you hear from the candidate or what you think. You are diminished by your own words.
If your words are meant to be a threat that you won’t support the same candidate that we support unless we shut up that’s pretty pathetic.
I, speaking only for myself, will vote for the candidate that I think is best based on information I have gathered and used to formulate my decision. And if that, or my words don’t meet with your approval I will try to live with that.
I believe the weather forecast calls for a 90% chance of a Flying Monkey deluge this week, blowing in all directions out of the Windy City.
On the Drew Carry show last week, a rerun, Drew and the gang broke into Drugco’s research labs, discovering a hybrid Monkapotomus, half monkey, half hippopotamus.
And Drew said, “real smart teaming up a monkey’s throwing arm with a hippopotamus’s intestinal track.”
Somehow, I seem some shit flying, this week.
Everytime I listen to that tape with Rev. Wright and hear him spill his filth…one think comes to mind and I think everyone is missing this…If I were Obama and I was sitting in that pew and he was slamming white folks, I’d be furious, did her conveniently forget that his very own mother was white…. Shame on Barack.
…and grandparents who raised him. Who put him in goods schools so he could be in a position to go to Harvard.
That is very telling. Obama says he is still a member because the rev is on the “verge of retirement” (what does that mean, I would imagine all of us are a lottery win away from being on the “verge of retirement”)he does not need to leave the church. The church that has called his mother and grandparents corrupted and essentially evil. He seats next to other church members who agree with this Bull even if Obama doesn’t. But yet he stays..HMMMM!
Thr President of the U.S. is supposed to represent and look out for All of the people in the U.S. (The current President doesn’t even pretend to do this.) If Obama listens to and supports financially what Wright is saying for 20 years, how can we expect him to look out for the white people that Wright hates so much?
Senator Obama:
Welcome to your “Gary Hart gotcha moment.”
Like his supporter Hart who taunted the press with claims to catch him having an affair if they can, Obama taunted the press with claims that he wasn’t at these services.
Now, we know that the MSM isn’t exactly a watchdog on these sorts of things, but this sort of challenge is just too much even for them.
I suspect that the July 22 sermon is the first of others that will surface showing that Sen. Obama was attending these sermons. The circumstantial evidence for Christmas and Jan. 13 sermons is very strong.
The only question left is this: Will Dean, Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic party elite do the right thing and rally the party around Senator Clinton or will they send the party to ruin in a misguided power grab? Taylor Marsh has a fantastic post about this on her blog.
Dean, Pelosi and the Democratic Party elite do the right thing? That’s a rhetorical question, yes? In the end I suspect they will do whatever is politically expedient. Whether the dimwits have the perspicacity to do it in time is another question entirely.
Don’t count on it.
But if Clinton takes Penn, (and I would watch for election cheating there), given a fair election, they would look even more obtuse if they didn’t reevaluate their support for Obama.
And if Pelosi insists on Obama, and the democrats lose, and she loses her speakership, so be it.
She’s simply not smart enough.
McCain was in Baghdad today, speaking to the various actors, doing what a President should do.
And here we are speaking of Obama and Wright, this trash, because Pelosi is a moron.
Obama can’t speak to the actors in Iraq, and the middle east, because he doesn’t know HOW, he’s not talented enough, every time McCain and Clinton do something political, it reminds everyone HOW untalented Obama is, it reminds everyone of Bush.
This is how elections are lost.
No kidding.
This is exactly how elections are lost.
Its not about his attendance per se.
The thing is, people don’t attend a church long term without buying in the philosophy espoused by the church leadership - in this case by the reverend Wright.
The fact is, that up until now Obama NEVER DISOWNED the hatred, bigotry and anti-semitism in Wright’s sermons until he was confronted by the media. This aptly shows that he has at the very least implicitly supports/believes what Wright has preached over the last 20 years.
This makes any apologetics by uttered by Obama nothing but a sack of lies.
Its too bad Pelosi and Dean don’t see this discrepancy because talk radio and the GOP 527’s will and exploit the hell out of it.
Got this e-mail this morning:
I just got through to Pelosi’s office, her voice mail is once again
taking messages. I gave her a blast and let her know I will ABSOLUTELY
NOT vote for Obama.
here’s the number- MAKE CALLS!
(202) 225-4965.
Thanks Susan for the number. I just left a message and will post this number on my blog ( in spite of the fact that they’re all dirty dog democrats, mine is the only blog my family will read!)
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/kristol_bungles_key_fact_in_an.php
he error is in trusting the source without checking.
The truth is that Obama did not attend church on July 22.
He was on his way to campaign in Miami.
(Here is some video evidence.) This was before he signed an agreement forbidding himself from campaigning in Florida.
Newsmax–Fox. What’s next, or what’s lower.
Mark Ambinder today:
Now, a simple Google search suggests that Obama spent most of the day in Miami. But a simple e-mail or telephone call to Obama’s campaign might have cleared things up.
If your mother says she loves you, check it out. Newsmax is a conservative news outlet and I wouldn’t rely on them to tell me the time of day.
If your mother says she loves you, check it out. Newsmax is a conservative news outlet and I wouldn’t rely on them to tell me the time of day.”
The idiots on this site think they can get Hillary in the Whitehouse by triangulating with wingnuts to smear Obama. Not gonna happen. But they are ensuring a McCain presidency. pathetic
Once again, when it seems NoQuarter can’t sink any lower it does. Oh well I’m going back to the reality based world. Oh and keep sucking at Kristol’s, Hannity’s, Blankley’s teat.
Oh and as someone in the reality based world I’ll take this campaign theme matchup(as was mentioned on another blog).
Republican Great Depression II
vs
Obama’s Crazy Preacher
I feel pretty good about those odds.
If Obama were to listen to a sermon in Chicago in the morning and then attend a rally in Florida that afternoon, he would have to have flown on a jet plane or something from Chicago to Florida. How could anyone manage something like that?
Are you holding your breath for a correction, vee? I posted a to my own blog here over two hours ago which proves, without a doubt, SusanUnPC to be dead wrong. I still haven’t seen a reply yet. Gotta love the journalistic integirty here at No Quarter.
Oh, and as for the regular readers who will accuse me of trolling, look — if No Quarter is going to publish items that are without a doubt wrong, and I’m able to prove such, I’ll make it known. You can’t call that trolling.
Will you correct your blog now that you know Barack was in Chicago on July 22 2007?
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/tracker/dates/2007/jul/22/
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Oh and Obama can’t be a Muslim and have a pastor, felt that should be pointed out.
[...] Mr. Obama, We Have a Question (by SusanUnPC at No Quarter) Why won’t you release your schedule that notes the dates when you attended church and heard the sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright? We want the facts, sir. Just the facts. You deny being at the July 22 service — as is asserted by NewsMax — but you provide no verification that your claim is accurate. You can deny from now until the end of time, but you need to provide proof, sir. [...]
Those clips are ugly cynical hypocritical shit.
CorpsMedia is a monstrosity. Hannity is an asswipe. Fox News exists to push the coded message that The Democratic Party is the party of nanny staters and negritude.
But it IS what will be thrown at Obama in the general election.
I think you might want to use some “rhetorical latex” when throwing it here in order to be distinguishable from Freepers and Obananates. The posters ETW, tas, and Dave Dial do have a point.
With apologies. Easy for me to say - I am doing none of the heavy lifting.
If HRC is the candidate these same commentariat trog baiters will claim she intends to mandate late term abortion** as well as health insurance. They will accuse her of not having spoken out strongly enough against infanticide or of accepting monies and having consorted too intimately with advocates thereof.
** sarcasm.
“This is not a Black America, or a White Americ or a Red America or a Blue America, this is the United States of America”
This being said, how come the core of the man’s faith is in a Church that solely promotes Black values? This is a his church’s central belief system of values and thus is at the core of a person joining such a family!
Maybe it was due to Michelle, in Barack joining such a church, based upon her Thesis at Princeton that is no longer posted till after the November election, talk about transparency! Why is it being hidden from general viewing?
The newmax.com guy had it right on the button! We know little about this guy!
As things unfold, we “the people” have to take a look, step back and make a JUDGEMENT on someone who claims to be able to make the right judgements on Day 1
Problem here is one that becomes very dangerous, thanks to Obama, his defeat will be cast as a Racial motivated one! This is not the case at all, it is a combination of all the factors now coming to light!
If the media and bloggers focus on this one issue, it will be cause for problems as a drowning person will grasp at anything to survive!
The truth of the matter is that this guy is incapable of running the Whitehouse based upon his record! That being said, combine his lack of experience with his beliefs and his prior record of inaction at tough issues like Maytag, and a host of other issues, along with his constant excuses of lacking recalling of events makes this guy the same as taking a factory plant machine operator and making that person the CEO of the company!
I am shocked, I repeat, shocked. The candidate of the Gospel of Transparency is not being transparent on the dates he attended church when his minister uttered racist and divisive comments to the congregation. It is also astonishing that in twenty years, this candidate of 24-carat judgment was unable to discern racism and divisiviness in his pastor. I’ll be darned.
Sorry Barack Fans -
Obama was also in Chicago on July 22 2007:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/tracker/dates/2007/jul/22/
Private Jets are a wonderful thing.
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scheduled to speak at 1:30 PM in Florida
What time are the church services in Chicago?
this is response to Comment by Inkslayer | 2008-03-17 11:18:42 ..
Time of church services unclear. From website:
* Live Webcast: Sunday 7:30 a.m. CST, 11:00 a.m. CST and 6:00 p.m. CST
* WebCast OnDemand: See past sermons at any time right here!
* National Television Broadcasts on TV ONE!
Sundays at 7:30 a.m. EST
Check your local listing for channel
How long does a flight from Chicago to Miami take? About 2 hours? I don’t think Obama could have caught the church service that morning.
This blog jumps the gun too early. I actually this might turn out to help Obama. Hail to President Obama, please.
Looks as if there are more than one service. If so, depends at which one the pastor preached that sermon.
I agree that jumping to conclusions makes it easy to shoot oneself in the foot.
argh!
… is more than one ….
That’s a distraction.
MR. OBAMA NEEDS TO RELEASE HIS FULL SCHEDULE AND FULL CALENDAR so we can compare the dates he attended services + the sermons that Rev. Wright gave on those dates.
Kristol now says “I regret the error” about Obama
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 3/17/2008 01:44:00 PM ET · Link
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As reported earlier today, Bill Kristol made what Marc Ambinder a “major, prejudicial error” about Obama in his NY Times column today. Kristol has acknowleged — and regrets — the error. Kristol should regret the error. Kristol should never have made the error in the first place:
In this column, I cite a report that Sen. Obama had attended services at Trinity Church on July 22, 2007. The Obama camapaign has provided information showing that Senator Obama did not attend Trinity that day. I regret the error.
Has Kristol learned that the right wing site, NewsMax, might not be a reliable source? Has the NY Times learned that Kristol isn’t reliable?
Obama showed up at 1:50 for his speech:
http://www.hispanicmpr.com/2007/07/31/clinton-obama-appearances-highlight-of-2007-nclr-conference/
Many attendees walked from Hall B across the large Miami Beach Convention Center, to stand in line in Hall D where Obama was scheduled to speak at 1:30 pm. The audience waited impatiently until 1:50 when Janet Murguía, president and CEO, NCLR and Maria Pesqueira of Mujeres Latinas en Accion, an NCLR affiliate, welcomed Obama enthusiastically.
Even if he was at the 11:00 A.M. service, ducked out early, he’d have about two hours to show up to give his speech at 1:50 P.M.
Not to mention he could have been spotted at the evening service.
You have to ask - why would a reporter write they say him at a service a year ago before any of this mattered much?
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“You have to ask - why would a reporter write they say him at a service a year ago before any of this mattered much?”
This is true. I did some Google search, and found out his church last year. I have the good judgment to conclude this church is controversial, to say the least.
The whole point of attending is to schmooze after the service. Therefore attending the 11AM and leaving early is unlikely. The 6AM would be less well attended so not a good investment of limited time. The 6PM would be [would have been] the one to consider.
If he was not at that specific sermon on July 22, 2007, I am sure that he was at some sermon over a period of 20 years where the Reverend Wright expressed clearly his views on white people, the United States, the Clintons, Louis Farrakan etc. The Obama claim that he was not aware of Wright’s views is just another lame excuse in a long line of lame excuses. Whether he was or was not at a particular sermon is beside the point.
Exactly - that’s the big picture that won’t be lost on the general public come November if the Dems are foolish enough to go forward with his candidacy.
I think that everybody is too far in the weeds on this one. Everybody has let Obama control the message/damage. Obama has everybody looking for the “smoking gun” —Obama in the “pews” listening to one of those conversational “sermons.” It may be found but “when?”
The issue:
How can the President of the United States have a spiritual advisior, close friend and consultant who has said “God Damn America?”
That is the issue. Framed that way Obama has no way out and should simply end his campaign.
keep tearing down Obama (since he will be the nominee) and McCain wins. Where are Hillary’s taxes then?
The same place Obama’s Ill senate records, Obama/REzko’s manison settlement papers, Obama passport records showing his extensive European travels, and his schedule showing he was not “in the pews” during Rev. Wright’s Rants (say that 3x fast).
You show me yours; I’ll show you mine.
why is everyone so intent upon smearing Obama for his pastor’s words? This smacks of McCarthyism.
“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Substitute Wright’s congregation and you get the idea.
It is. It is too close to the Arkansas Project’s “Are you now or have you ever been downwind of Bill Clinton?”
You want this shit now, or during the run against McCain?
Obama sat in a church, listening to his pastor, i(in whom some put absolute faith), denigrate Americans, America, women, and white people.
Is this Obama’s philosophy, too? Should we disregard Obama’s relationship to Wright, because “he’s not really like that…” Is Obama a black supremacist, an America hater, the black equivalent to Timothy McVeigh? (He hated America, too). Is this common sense to encourage hate? Obama lies, flat out, and not very well.
You’re in denial if you don’t understand the import of such an action, you’d be like Donna Brazile, a fool.
Wright and Louis Farrakhan met with col Gaddafi, who later went on to blow up a jet liner over Lockerbie, Scotland.
This is very serious, not boys having fun.
Inkslayer, there’s nothing I need to correct on my blog. I’ve used Lexis Nexis to search the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as AP’s Midwest Newswire, between the dates of July 21 and July 24, and I was unable to find one single campaign event for Obama in Chicago on July 22. I did find out that he was in Des Monies on July 21, that given that the CNN/Youtube debate was in Chicago on July 23, he had good reason to get back to the city. But you’re trying to tell me that Obama, who in all likelihood started his day on July 22 in Iowa, made an afternoon speech in Miami, then just left hastily, fighting Miami’s traffic, jetted back to Chicago, landed, fought Chicago’s traffic, all to make it to the South Side and attend church at 6:00pm?
As noted in this comment thread, Obama’s NCLR speech was at 1:50, but since Obama would gain an hour hopping a time zone back to Chicago, let’s say his speech was at 12:50. How long did it last.. 30 minutes? An hour? Let’s say, with schmoozing time included, Obama spent an hour at NCLR. Now it’s 1:50. He would have to fight Miami’s traffic to make it back to his jet, then the jet has to be cleared for takeoff; I’ll give you the time benefit here and say that would all take an hour even though we both know it would take longer. Regardless, now it’s 2:50 and Obama is in the air. It’s going to take him 3 hours to get back to Chicago, land, and exit the airport — By that time, it’s 5:50pm, Central time. And he still has to fight traffic.
Face the facts, people — it was impossible for Obama to have gone to Pastor Wright’s church on July 22. Impossible.
Susan,
You continue to disgrace yourself. Obama was not in the church on July 22.
Even Bill Kristol had to apologize for reporting that nonsense. LOL!