When it suits his all-consuming political ambitions, at the time …
By SusanUnPC on April 29, 2008 at 11:43 AM in Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
When he’s trying to cover up his current electability problem No. 1, Rev. Jeremiah Wright — and boost his badly flagging poll numbers — Barack Obama distances himself from Wright.
He repeatedly calls Wright his “former pastor.” He reluctantly proffers pallid pronunciations on Wright’s most outrageous remarks as not speaking for him. Obama’s puppet-master David Axelrod says delicately that Wright’s numerous public appearances are “unfortunate from our perspective.”
Obama often says he never heard Rev. Wright make comments like that when HE was in church. Thing is, since we’ve all heard Wright’s four speeches and interviews in four days, we know that that is how Wright speaks ALL the time, and EVERY time he is performing his self-aggrandizing stunts.
Besides — when it suited his political “aspirations” in 2004 during his U.S. Senate run — Obama couldn’t get close enough to Rev. Wright and his church. From the Chicago Sun-Times, April 5, 2004:
These days, he says, he attends the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Trinity in the Brainerd neighborhood every week — or at least as many weeks as he is able. His pastor, Wright, has become a close confidant.
If Obama went to church “every week — or at least as many weeks as he is able,” it is laughable for him to claim that he never heard Wright’s outrageous, anti-American, and racist rants since, as I said above, it’s clear as day to all of us who’ve heard a good deal of Wright talking (far more than I’d rather, for sure), that that is how Wright talks ALL THE TIME.
The laughable excuse that he never heard Wright speak like that suits TODAY’s ambitions. As does his alternate explanation (there have been so many) that he spoke privately with Wright about the statements that bothered him.
Obama has over-emphasized his Christian faith to fend off accusations from the right that he is a secret Muslim. That suits his ambition to become the Democratic nominee and to become president.
But, it’s a delicate dance to claim he’s a devout Christian when he also claims that he never heard Wright’s rants — which would LOGICALLY mean that he rarely attended Wright’s Trinity church.
Which is it, Barack? Did you carefully select to attend only on the Sundays when Wright never railed against America and white people? Or is this another of your cover-ups? Or is it that you attended Wright’s church and listened to Wright’s sermons “every week — or at least as many weeks” as you were able in 2004, when you needed black votes in Chicago to win the U.S. Senate seat?
Whatever it is, it is a sad muddle of a mess.
None of us knows what Obama really means.
And that is not good for a presidential aspirant.
Especially in a country full of people who like candidates who say what they mean, and mean what they say.
As for Obama’s constant phrasing in calling Wright his “former pastor,” it must be noted that Rev. Wright only “retired” in January 2008, and some news reports indicated that he is on a sabbatical.
Read all of “Obama: I have a deep faith,” from the Sun-Times on April 5, 2004 — when it suited Obama to pontificate at length about his Christian faith and reliably regular attendance to hear Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons.
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It is all about Politics. Always has been.
Obama is a brand that was planned and worked incredibly well. At least until it got a little tarnished.
Hey New Hampster!
Have you seen fleaflicker?
Someone was asking the other day. I’ve not read a word from them either. Just curious. Thanks.
Andrea Mitchell just showed an attack mailer little Obambi is sending out. Baby fawn hides serpant’s tongue.
Also, forgot to mention: Mitchell says she thinks that Obama lost PA because of racism!
Right, Andrea. A bad debate performance, plus insulting voters behind their back, had nothing to do with it.
You are exactly right. A poll-tested brand. As someone said, Deval Patrick was Axelrod’s Beta test. BO is Chicago poll playing Mr. Hope.
Axelrod got arrogant after the win and did not realize he would be way out of his league against Hillary.
Axelrove as well as many others understimated Sen. Clinton….
Deval Patrick has not got his casinos he so badly wanted. It would have been profits from his former law firm where his wife works. Patrick’s wife’s admin asst is being paid by public funds. Hmmm….this is a preview of an Obama presidency.
Exactly why the Obama camp needed a quick ride to the white house, a quick primary….to keep his sparkling armor.
It is the fault of the mainstream media and the Democratic National Committee that Obama was never vetted, and that is why we are in this mess! Sean Hannity of Fox news tried to tell us over a year ago, but the adoring MSM would not run with it. How very foolish they all look now!!!
yes I agree. I blame the stupidity of people who pushed Howard Dean into a job he had neither experience nor qualifications for…similar to what’s happened with Obama. My choice? John Edwards, John Edwards, John Edwards.
Brilliant Susan…..Keep up the good work….
Thank you! It surely helps to have such rich, rich manure to feed the soil.
Plausible deniability, from the pews of bias, at the Church of Contempt.
Obama should adopt the moniker MUGWAMP = fencesitter….
e is certainly not a MUGWUMP= person who adopts and independent political position….OBAMUGWAMP…..sounds descriptive to me…..
Obama’s spin attempts are laughable. He has zero credibility with an exponentially growing number of people.
It is always the cover-up that gets people whether its a minor offense blossoming into a felony, or a politician caught with their pants down.
Maybe if Obama had just told the truth he could have survived this. He could have said from the beginning he did hear those things and it was a profound mistake to stay at the church. A mistake he hope America will forgive him for.
That could have worked. The cover-up never works. And its too late to tell the truth now since he has cried wolf so much.
I don’t think BABY-O even rates TRICKY DICK status….
In that Sun Times article there are two other red flags…..”Friends and advisers” State
Senator and pastor Rev. Meeks and Rev. Michael Pfleger - two more controversial guys. Meeks in particular may be almost as bad as Wright in the statements he makes.
Bob Herbert, who’s been a strong supporter of Obama, states it so clearly in today’s NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/opinion/29herbert.html?hp
I smell toast.
I hope it’s wry toast, that’s my favorite.
Whoa, some turnabout! Herbert has been shilling for Obama relentlessly for months. Did he look under his chair and suddenly find his lost integrity or sense of fairness? Doubtful since Hillary Clinton isn’t the first Democrat Herbert has attacked.
MSM has been beating up on Democrats for a generation and Dems seemed content to accept it. Herbert just another Frank Rich IMHO. Where’s Eugene Robinson today, hiding under his rock?
He still is. Obama’s a helpless victim in Herbert’s eyes… trapped between the twin jaws of Hillary and Jeremiah.
Does he think that making Obama a “helpless victim” makes him credible as a Commander in Chief? Or are we now getting ready to nominate a “victim in chief”? I don’t see where this kind of crybaby crap does Obama any good.
But it does reinforce the Republicans’ Democrat stereotype. This is enough to give Limbaugh a woody without a Viagra assist.
Barack can’t distance himself from Wright. Wright has something on him. The performances of the past several days were in your face to the extreme. Baby O wouldn’t have waited a full day and merely said “he doesn’t speak for me and he doesn’t speak for this campaign ….” that’s too darn Kerryesque …
Nope.
There is a reason that he’s not stabbing the Reverend. He can’t. And its really nasty reason.
If this were reversed. ALL of this. And it were HILLARY’s crazy ass UNCLE!!!
THey would have FORCED her OUT long ago and shunned her from the Senate maybe kicked her out and painted a big scarlet letter on her chest for YEARS in the press.
H Y P O C R I T E
thy name is MSNBC
Russert (u make me nauseous)
Olbermann (you changed my life, now u FRAUD)
Matthews (swallow that spit will ya!)
Mica (brainless bimbo)
Maddow (you have a degree? in what?)
Schuster (you broke my heart)
ot……..SUSA NC Clinton down only by 5 points.
http://www.talkleft.com/
NC will be hers as will be Indiana.
From your lips to God’s ears.
or maybe… from God’s lips to yours!
woo hooo
RISE HILLARY RISE
If half of the AA’s stay home Hillary will tie in NC.
If they all come out for Odrama.
She will lose by at least 10 pts because they are 30 percent of the Dem’s in NC. (or so I am told)
BUT NC IS OPEN PRIMARY ,,,SO EVEN INDIES AND REPS CAN VOTE TOO
AND THEY MAY FAVOR CLINTON
AND SOME WHITE S ARE GETTING NEGATIVE IMPRESSION OF OBAMA BECAUSE OF WRIGHT SO THEY MAY VOTE HEAVILY FOR CLINTON ,,
LETS PRAY,,,,,,,,
Sorry. NC is not an open primary. I know this because I live in NC and am registered “unaffiliated”. I am not allowed to vote in the primary. I would vote for Clinton if I could.
r u sure
i must be confused with indiana then ,,,,
OMG. I hadn’t seen that one. that’s up 5 since the last So. Carolina poll. People are taking a hard look at Obama, and they don’t like what they see. That is, when they finally take a hard look, and get past the baloney “hope” and “change” rhetoric.
Agree with you on that…IN and NC the two hand in hand for Clinton….
The DNC will have to acknowledge that for the general.
Fascinating…
Barack Obama is “bored” with the primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, say aides. That is more revealing than they could possibly imagine. Any other word may have indicted frustration, or just exhaustion. “Bored” is often a classic symptom.
He doesn’t have the fortitude or the strength or the conviction or the motivation for it anymore because he doesn’t have the conviction or the motivation for anything but his own subconscious needs.
There is no compelling public service motivation; no overiding dream in building the Democratic Party, and no wonkish drive to debate policy. It’s all about Barack Obama, and his narcissism. He is only interested in the exciting adulation-from-screaming-fans part, not the vetting part. That is too threatening; and his anxieties are revealing. He likes the interview where he breezes in, charms the interviewer, and gets handed the job. Actually, he doesn’t really want the job; he just wants the title.
Narcissists [and Borderline PDs] get “bored” easily; especially if they confront challenges. It’s so classic. Narcissists say they’re bored; but what they really are is fearful of losing their carefully constructed defense mechanism of superiority. It’s not “bored,” it’s anxiety that he calls being “bored.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28obama.html?hp
That’s an elitist comment!
How Borrrrrrrrring dahlink!
He was talked INTO running in 08 (I bet)
and now all the hard work and strenuous hours and consistent pandering to the lower classes is just
Borrrrrrrrrrrrrrring him to pieces!!
Aw po po little whiney spoiled baby!
Just like your big earred counterpart (GW Pretzel)
spoiled by rich families
going to the “Wright” elite schools
keeping up the appearance of WEALTH and PRESTIGE -
oh yea also willingly being brainwashed into hating half of yourself
real smart
Little Lord Obama is bored. Oh my. How tedious it must be to run for President. All of the shameless adoration…
Obama’s apparently been bored for quite some time. He was bored as a State Senator. Some say he is bored with the US Senate, as well. Perhaps if he BELIEVED in something other than his own self-promotion he could handle the tiresome, monotonous duties of SERVING and REPRESENTING his constituents. Poor Little Lord Obama has been saddled with such a heavy burden.
Personally, I find this TOTALLY offensive on so many levels. With such an “intelligent and scholarly” mind, how can one be bored? Seriously, who wants a President who suffers from the same fate as millions of teenagers across the country. I’m a high school teacher and the biggest complaint these kids have is “boredom”. It’s a great excuse for laziness and lack of motivation and desire.
What a loser.
Agreed fooj!! You said it exactly right.
Too bad about poor Barack being bored. I think Hillary is having fun and enjoying getting out and discussing important issues with voters.
Maybe he needs a nap.
if he is bored with the primary campaign, it’s because he mistakenly thinks he’s won. if he does somehow win, we can expect the same pattern for the general.
my question is, if the absolute worst happens and he is somehow elected (which in my view could only happen with massive computer fraud), once the inauguration balls and speech are done and he’s all moved in and comfy, won’t he just become bored again?
just as he found the work of the senate boring, i think he’d find the work of the presidency boring. and especially so since there in the senate there are 100 members and his inadequacy could be hidden but there’s only one president. so he’d be in way over his head, have no real way to hide that, plus it’s actually hard work that requires long hours and real thinking, even for the laziest among them.
and being bored is the very best excuse, isn’t it? basically, oh no, i’m not out of my league, i’m just so above this that it’s boring.
heaven help us.
Another excellent post, Susan. Thanks for being tenacious, accurate, and unafraid to post the truth.
Obama has had so many positions on Wright, it’s like he’s dancing.
Off topic a bit, Pelosi led Congress is preparing to pass a massive war funding bill 110bils.
Will we hear from the anti-war candidate for prez?
Doubtful. He was only against it before he had to actually put his money where his mouth was. Then he voted yes on every funding bill that came along. As, admittedly did Hillary Clinton.
It’s not just that Democrats know that they will have a problem not funding the military because of what the ugly, nasty-assed Republicans will say, it’s that they know the media will play it up so that it looks like our poor military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan will run out of bullets for their guns or some such nonsense.
As Obama is suddenly finding out, it’s hard to make any progress with out the media windbags at your back.
Obama used political expediency to score points at almost every juncture in his political career. Those varied items conflict and criss cross to a hodgepodge bundle of yarns, spun into a large ball of, spin.
Objects in motion have energy, but the spin of Barack’s campaign rhetoric, compared to his policy, is going to face uncertainty at a time when America’s supposedly calling for moments of clarity.
Can the spin stop itself, hardly so. His downward poll swing is just a graphic plot, we commonly refer to this as an orbit. He’s set himself up to be the star, yet the satellites he attracts for campaign capital are spinning wildly.
The man he stood beside and made a major fundraiser for his campaign isn’t even a planetoid anymore. The Rev. Wright is now beyond Pluto, in what in all appearances appears to be a Mickey Mouse effort at counterspin. Indeed, the man who has embraced Farrakhan is further out than planet X these days, according to Obama.
Who could have imagined?
Has Barack explained to anyone his approval of Condi Rice as Sec.of State during his freshman Senate committee vote?
That’s the smooth waters he has to sail after the inconvenient icebergs that the Titanic campaign hit. He hasn’t capsized, and he’s gaining water.
He will not debate but he does favor rearranging the deck chairs, as the band plays on. Captain Axelrod was charting a course for a record campaign, perhaps he’d been better advised to employ caution at a time it suited the interests of those on board.
It’s the country you are helping sink. The water’s colder than an unheated housing project. Do we really need to change to DC by making it more like Chicago? There’s voters in Illinois I know who wouldn’t make that claim.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/04/on_and_on_and_o/#comments
This is a great line. It needs prinking, tho.
Poor, BO, his lies are again catching up with him, getting him sandwiched between a rock and a hard place. Somehow, I feel no pity at all. I was never a fan for starters as I always found him a say anything phony.
Wondering if we will be able to buy the Historic Barack DVD of his Presidential Primary Concession Speech. Or the speech where he endorses Clinton, the one he gives with Michelle? Oh right, that won’t happen he is not really interested in a political career any longer. Off to the speech circuit for him.
Or that perfect country where he can be the messiah and Michelle can be proud of her country and Oprah opens a school for his girls.
And they all live happily ever after.
Percy….are you describing the sunny weather in GAZA…
I have always wondered about this. Just how is it that he is a devout Christian and yet somehow managed not to be in church when Wright said all those horrible things? Never made much sense to me. The “close confidant” comment alone should be enough to link the two of them at the hip.
I am waiting for Michelle to come out and explain that “stinky” was in church but was asleep (the Homer Simpson excuse) or was listening to basketball games (something black folk would surely understand and forgive). Or maybe he had long term ear infections. he does have big ears ya know.
As I pointed out earlier Obama had a chance to come clean and maybe survive this. Trying to cover this up is why he can’t survive it. He has no credibility dollars left in the bank.
Because Obama is a fraud.
He is a fake created by media consultants, and his own egotistical problems. I still have to see something that he did to help the people, his constituencies as state and national senator.
He doesn’t care about the people at all. He does not have it in him to work hard to better people’s lives.
He just like how he sounds when he repeats a practiced speech written by others and/or himself with others help. But for him it is just an academic exercise; not his inner passion to do the work that his words imply.
He doesn’t have it.
Anyone else noticed that in the God Love US More sermons, that the videos have 3 or more camera angles going at all times and how well they are edited together switching angles of view without batting an eye. Every week must have been filmed not just these delightful diddys. They always show the pleasure of the congregation. There has to be some showing Barry out there somewhere.
Barry is a power hungry politician plain and simple. If he’s willing to throw his grandmother under the bus what wont he say.
Wright said Barrys desownment of him was just him being a politician, saying what he needs to say to get elected. It’s his religious NAFTA moment.
There are 2 type of people in the world givers and takers. Obama is a classic example of a taker. He sided up to Wright for his political connections, he sided up to Rezko for his money, his sided up to Ayers for his connections in the academic world. As much as Wright would like for Obama to be president he is calling in his chips on Obama and Obama is not acknowledging the debt he owns him. Obama’s attitude is he owns no one.
Would Ayers have been the middle man between Obama, and Rezko?
Wrong, he’s simply pushing visibility to get the support of that base. They’ll support Obama regardless, he isn’t being thrown under bus, just being made plausible.
If Obama threw him under the bus he’d be returning all the donations Wright channeled his way before being investigated by the IRS, etc.
Were you watching the same press conference?
He was run over and back over twice at least … not to mention the Farrakhan (which I didn’t necessarily see as his responsibility).
The problem with Barry is that he lets this stuff build up and then just lets generalities fly that are out and out lies.
Yesterday wasn’t the first time that Wright equated the bombs in Japan with terrorism. He did that 7 years ago. And those tapes were played over and over again the weekend before the speech. If we had a press that wasn’t in the tank for him, they would take his press conference from today apart and call him the liar he is.
That he IS a liar is not Jerry Wright’s fault. Barry is a natural.
I’ll make a prediction. Hillary will win all upcoming primaries, even a squeeker in NC. And will wrap up the nomination. The pundits, talking heads and other know it alls, will have egg on their faces and be mumbling about wha’ hoppened? Duh, how could we have known? and then talk it to death, blah, blah, blah. And we’ll sit here smugly thinking, “I told you so, you dopes.” Then we can get to the business of electing Hillary to the presidency.
YAY!
Exactly Who would do or say anything to be elected again?
Hillary Clinton will make her first visit to “the no-spin zone,” sitting down with FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly for a two-part interview to air Wednesday and Thursday.
The Democratic presidential hopeful will meet O’Reilly on Wednesday in South Bend, Ind., where the two are expected to discuss a wide range of topics, both foreign and domestic.
The appearance will be Clinton’s first on “The O’Reilly Factor,” which airs on the FOX News Channel at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET.
AND THATS A GOOD THING BECAUSE IN NORTH CAROLINA,,,,EVEN REPUBS CAN VOTE FOR HILLARY ,,,,,
PLUS HILLARY WILL PROVE TO BE A UNITER ,,,AND NEVER AFRAID TO ANSWER
:-O OH MY GOD!!!
truly amazing
I heard that “Thing” called Coulter say to the boys that she was having a hard time still supporting Hillary (just that first line keeps me dizzy)
because of how BILL has behaved
Kristol & Coulter (demon book ends to the entrance of neocon HELL)
Now O’Lielly?
This can’t be good (not really)
someone please tell me that this is a good thing?
I need a minute to process this
my brain is hurting (owie)
I don’t even pay attention, anymore, they’re so predictable.
The problem with using half wits like Coulter is, in the end, they’re a security risk, as they can’t tell when they’re being trolled, they just aren’t smart enough.
Really, precious, really.
uh huh…
but don’t tell Bill Kristol that.
Know why?
He can’t understand…
The fawning MSM is now disavowing Rev Wright. I believe around the time of the PA speech, we were hearing from MSM that this was main stream and we did not understand the black church. They are all in chorus now that OB should come out strongly against the preacher. The MSM is so caught up in this aura that they think the rest of us are stupid too. OB sat in the church for 20 years and saw nothing wrong with this man. If he gives another “speech of our live times” to disavow the reverend how is that going to change anything? It is political expedience just as the first speech was. The American people are a lot smarter than that.
Report: Sharpton Peeved at Obama Over Response to Cops’ Acquittal
by FOXNews.com
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Rev. Al Sharpton accused Barack Obama of trying to “grandstand in front of white people” by suggesting that New Yorkers should not get violent over the acquittal of three police officers who shot an unarmed man last year, sources told The New York Post.
Sean Bell was shot by the officers outside a Queens strip club in November. The three officers were found not guilty of criminal charges by Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman, who reached a verdict without a jury.
The verdict was widely decried by Sharpton and others, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers called for a federal probe. The six officers involved in the shooting are also facing a possible federal civil rights investigation and departmental charges.
But Obama responded by saying that “the judge has made his ruling and we are a nation of laws and so we respect the verdict that came down. I think that the most important thing for people who are concerned about the shooting is to figure out how do we come together and assure that those kinds of tragedies don’t happen again.”
That response was apparently not good enough for Sharpton, who has threatened to shut down the city. According to sources who spoke to The New York Post, Sharpton called Obama and berated him for saying that it’s “completely unacceptable and counterproductive” to resort to violence.
“Rev. Al Sharpton accused Barack Obama of trying to “grandstand in front of white people” by suggesting that New Yorkers should not get violent over the acquittal of three police officers who shot an unarmed man last year, sources told The New York Post.”
God forbid Obama advocate a non-violent response to the verdict. The nerve.
Misdirect.
Jeff:
Steve is right; your comment should be addressed to Sharpton.
It’s reasonable that this black community leader who has a much more active, accomplished black identity is going, “Stop sucking up to the white people, damn it!” over Barack’s tin-eared comments about violence in New York when no one has so much as thrown a spitball at anyone else. (I think Obama’s trying to subtly address white fears of violence in Denver and alleviate them, but he blew it if that was his intent.) It feels like, using Sharpton as an iconic black leader, the awareness that Obama’s blackness was a mere cloak that he feels free to slide into and out of at his convenience (and for the benefit of a white liberal audience) is settling in. One more tone-deaf gaffe like that, and Sharpton may well move into, “Who the hell is this guy, anyhow? What the hell did he ever do for us?” And with reason.
Is there no end to this fool. Just words to impress the white voters? Heck, if he won’t stand up for the people he’s been courting throughout this campaign, why should they stand up for him? It’s pretty obvious what he really thinks about AA’s.
“Is there no end to this fool. Just words to impress the white voters? Heck, if he won’t stand up for the people he’s been courting throughout this campaign, why should they stand up for him? It’s pretty obvious what he really thinks about AA’s.”
This is the most deluded piece of nonsense I’ve ever read on this site, and that’s saying a lot.
Obama disses Wright for statements he’s made which everyone here agrees are out-of-bounds, and people like you assume African-Americans are so monolithically different from you, they will take the disavowal of this one measly man, as an affront to the entire race.
No deelee, “it’s obvious what” you “really think about AA’s”.
O/T
just wondering on the Annie Oakley motif….
any famous character who always shot himself in the foot? Can’t think of one… but I think there must be one..
I’d like to see a cartoon with Obama in a little cowboy outfit, unable to get his six-shooter out of the holster and shooting himself in the foot.
The title: I don’t know…. something to imply
premature ejaculation.
cause really Obama, I think you came too soon… in so many ways. (but not the way that the Obheads would say. He’s not before his time–in any good way. he would always have been scum no matter the
year.)
Hahahaha! What a picture in my mind.
oh shoot, I forgot to put in the troll lines..
save them a little more time to get back to pillow biting about something else…
here ya go trolls..
“you suck”
“you’re racist”
“$#@##$$###”
“you’re sick”
“Barry can too perform sexually… Just look at Michelle’s warm glowing, satisifed face.”
–I wouldn’t use that one, troll.
“Barry can too perform sexually…Just look at Larry Sinclair’s warm glowing, satisfied face.”
“@#$#@#”
“you must hate men.”
–I hate Barry, does that count?
“*%$#$$**”
Okay, sorry for the interuption, true posters, dreams of great dreams, poets of the technosphere..on with your work…
DID U SMOKE THAT PIPE WITH BARRY TODAY??
or u running on kool-aid..
i mean ,,,,,,,,,WTF?
Hey Sonia,
What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you jumping on people who are pro-Hillary. My post was making fun of Obama people. Yo, girl, come up for air. And back off of Dawnelle, too.
Jesus, read the posts before you go off all crazy on people.
well, I guess I’ll put in a clarification here…don’t want anyone to come to the strange conclusion Sonia did. This is meant to be scathingly funny– ridiculing Obama trolls. It is meant to be a response compilation of troll remarks that might occur to my original post
(see above). This is part of my campaign to
disenfranchise the Obama trolls (you know, kind of take their lines away from them; rather like Obama took Michigan and Floridas votes away from the voters).
We are living in the age of jackass
But what has Barack Obama accomplished that entitles him to look down on his fellow Americans? - William Kristol
Snob: from the Latin sine nobilitas, without nobility. Yep, Obama is every inch a snob!
But Obama is aligning himself with the Democratic losers. And that will make him a loser as well. -Larry Kudlow
About Larry
even a broken clock is right twice a day! (I prefer Kramer)
again with the Kristol comments
I have never seen him NOT look like he was looking down his nose at someone
must take one to know one
WTF?
U TROLL
U LOW ON KOOL-AID?
U FRIENDS WITH WRIGHT?
who u callin a troll??
I’m a DEMOCRAT that doesn’t like Larry Kudlow.
WTF is your problem?
OH ,,
I AM SO SORRY
I THOUGHT ,,U WERE BEING SARCASTIC ,,,,IN A SENSE OF BEING HATEFUL TO HILLARY ,,,
THIS IS MOSTLY PRO-HILL BLOG ,,,,
BUT OFVOURSE FREE SPEECH ,,
I AGAIN APOLOGIZE,,,,,I THOUGHT U WERE BEING ,,,,??
that’s ok
I get passionate myself about Hillary and the injustices she’s withstood through out this MESSY campaign of SPIN!
I think she’ll win out in the end.
Then we can ALL relax a bit.
OKAY
KOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL
I would think less “pro hillary” and more trying to do what is right for the country, in the end, a function of democracy. Every inch she is able to move forward without axelrove tactics, the better for America domestically, and worldwide — militarily, politically and economically. Even if she doesn’t get the nomination, (I never count chickens before they hatch, EVER), she has already done much to restore solid American leadership, planting seeds and nurturing growth.
It’s a long string, but she’s doing it right, already, as far as restoring America.
Speaking for myself, no one wants to pander, she is the best of the three candidates.
Yes…Sen. Hillary Clinton once again displays Adult Behavior
I SAW THIS OVER AT http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?p=74732#post74732
SO I THOUGHT WE SHOULD ALL SHARE THISVIEW AND FOLLOW THIS,,,,,,
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Glowing opinions of candidates’ personal attributes by journalists and commentators cease.
All analysts, strategists, pundits are required to declare their bias before they speak.
All candidates are represented in panel discussions.
Enough of biased opinion based “journalism.” Americans can make up their own minds without having the news analyzed to death by people who are only interested in pushing their own agenda. Just the facts, please!
For demographic purposes, I am a married mother of 3 adolescent children. I make the majority of purchasing decisions in our household. We are homeowners with excellent credit, and our taxable income in 2007 was over XXXXX.
Sincerely,
Jeremiah Wright:
The rebellious son of a Baptist minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright was hired by Trinity United Church of Christ in 1972 when he could find no Baptist church to take him. The congregation on 95th Street had recently adopted the motto “Unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian” and did not mind his fiery red Afro and black power agenda. Wright now leads the nation’s largest UCC congregation. Members include hip-hop artist Common and Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama. Obama based his keynote speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention on a Wright sermon called “Audacity to Hope.” The sermon also inspired the title of Obama’s second memoir. Wright continues to make waves with his own audacity, questioning the common sense of Scripture, objecting to mandatory prayer in schools and clashing with clergy who preach prosperity theology. Wright again bucked convention by announcing plans to retire in May 2008 and tapping Rev. Otis Moss III as his successor. Many black pastors do not surrender their pulpits even when they become too feeble to serve.
Chicago Church Thanks Rev. Wright
Wright, who officially retires May 31, did not speak during the two-hour service.
Wright has not spoken publicly since the controversy over his sermons began. He recently scrapped plans to receive an award in Texas, and to speak at churches in Houston and Tampa, Fla.
Wright retired last month but remains a senior pastor of the Chicago church.
SO,,,,,,,
WHO IS MAKING CALLS TODAY???
AND WHAT ARE THE GOALS,,,,
LETS ALL COMMIT TO IT ,,,,,,
THATS THE BEST HELP WE CAN GIVE TO HILLARY,,,,,,,,,,,,FOR OUR BETTER FUTURE
MY GOAL TODAY to make 50 calls
If ever there was an opportunity in the form of a test for Obama, his Rev Wright dilemma is IT. Unfortunately for Obama, he’s actively failing to see the opportunity, by wimping out; too bad.
Platitude-laden race uplifting speeches are fine. But when the cameras turn off and the mic is unplugged, then the rubber meets the road. Wright just threw a set of tires. Obama can either walk the talk, or he can fold.
While I personally wouldn’t put up with a pastor with Wright’s overly stereotyped view of the American racial situation, he does have something very powerful which Obama is clueless about. Wright states his vision in no uncertain terms as his personal conviction, and his personal action plan, then successfully executes the action plan, and consistently stands up for it.
Rag on at will about his speeches. He came into a church of 80, who had their hope defeated and an anemic sense of motivation, got numerous productive programs going, and made it work. That was Wright’s call to ministry, and he answered. He did it. Now in the sunset of his career, he finds that the kinds of speech that inspired a willing congregation, don’t seem to play so well at the National Press Club. Bummer! But rather than wimp out and go quietly into the night, he comes back with determination and stands up for his reputation.
I’m not talking about whether or not his speech or vision are correct, I’m talking about the integrity of his personal conviction. Quite honestly, that is something I respect him for.
Whether Obama was inspired by this, or just saw an opportunity he could use for his career, is something he’ll just have to answer for himself. Meanwhile, whatever stature he used to have is hemorrhaging faster than you can say, ‘down for the count’. If Obama won’t stand up for either himself or his supporters like Wright, where’s the loyalty? What should we expect when the time comes for Obama to stand up for us?
SUSA NC Poll*: Obama By 5; Ras NC Poll: Obama By 14
By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2008
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In the latest SUSA NC poll, Obama’s lead is down to 5 (More on the flip on the SUSA poll. *NOTE* - The link has been pulled, but I do not believe it is because it is inaccurate but rather because the web posting came before the TV station trumpeted the poll on air. It is my judgment alone that this is real. But right now there is no active link to the poll.) In the latest Ras NC poll, Barack Obama maintains a healthy lead, though down from his previous 23 point margin. The demographics are the political destiny again:
The demographic results in North Carolina are similar to the dynamics seen nationally and in most primaries—Clinton leads by fifteen points among White voters while Obama leads 80% to 11% among African-Americans. Clinton does well among White Women and older voters while Obama leads among those under 65.
We can figure out the crosstabs based on Ras’ turnout model:
he cannot look at the camera, he cannot look us in the
eye. yesterday on the tarmac he looked so ashamed,
as well he should be, the hypocrite, praying in the
basement with Rev. Wright and his family but not inviting
him to speak at the announcement ceremony.
which is it Barack? are you hiding that you still continue
to take faith from this man or did it actually take you
TWENTY years to figure out that Rev. Wright is poison?
you drink from the poison well for TWENTY years?!?
we need someone in the white house who acts thoughtfully and quickly. even if you disown him today, it took you TWENTY…..TWENTY years to figure this out.we need someone who is smarter than that.
“…yesterday on the tarmac he looked so ashamed,…”
Oh my God, you guys have me dying laughing! He does look mighty sheepish and dumb when these things come up doesn’t he? Some of these world leaders would eat him for lunch if we sent him out there as our representative. No thanks!
Hell has frozen over. I just saw a pig fly past my window. I can’t believe I’m writing this: I agree with Jonah Goldberg on something.
Read the rest here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg29apr29,0,5010765.column
You are DEAD on, Susan. Wright has Obama by the throat right now:
Obama’s Wright Conundrum
The walls are closing in on Obama by the second.
Oh my. Wright under the bus, followed by Farrakhan.
Live Obama on MSNBC right now.
Obama said he was shocked by Wright’s comments yesterday.
“Obama’s puppet-master David Axelrod says delicately that Wright’s numerous public appearances are “unfortunate from our perspective.”
That is HILARIOUS! Unfortunate? lol Why don’t they go ahead and toss in the towel now and spare us all the extra time and agony?
They set the whole thing up for obama to drive a ford pickup over rev wrong. yeah, it is hilarious.
“When he’s trying to cover up his current electability problem No. 1, Rev. Jeremiah Wright — and boost his badly flagging poll numbers — Barack Obama distances himself from Wright.”
Please. As if Dick Morris wasn’t cut loose by the Clintons for sexual impropriety, even while Bill himself was having an affair!
Oh my the straws you grasp.
Jeff, sweetie…
Dick was cut loose for allowing a hooker to listen in to phone calls with the President, while Dick was sucking her toes.
But it’s oh so precious that you’d defend a guy that has to pay for sex, yet neglecting to pay his state income taxes for years. You know.. that same fellow that went to Kenya on a tourist visa to help Obama’s cousin in his bloody election, pro bono.
I think “Dick” is probably a nickname.
“But it’s oh so precious that you’d defend a guy that has to pay for sex, yet neglecting to pay his state income taxes for years.”
I’m certainly not defending Dick Morris. I think he’s a scumbag, personally. I’m just pointing out that the Clintons are hardly above cutting someone close to them loose the minute it becomes politically necessary.
Obama is finished. He couldn’t sell that half eaten waffle to Michelle.
Someone in that congregation has tape.
He knows it.
He just shit on the entire church.
Film at 11.
rrrrrrrreally?
I knew there were other reasons why I pictured him as a snake.
FOX would help their ratings if they would throw OUT useless smarmy rags like Morris.
What am I saying? ROFLOL - Fox - helping FOX????
I need a pill
But see, the thing is Bill was already President at the time, not angling for the job and not promising hopey changey …
So now Unca Jerry ends up with granny and the tranny …. so what happens to the 90% of his support? Some loyalty for the “bros,” no?
“But see, the thing is Bill was already President at the time, not angling for the job and not promising hopey changey …”
Um, he fired him on the eve of his speech at the Democratic National Convention of ‘96. You know, the one that nominated Bill for re-election that year.
Did you ever wonder how it came about that Dick Morris took up with a diary-keeping hooker a month or so after joining (openly) the Clintons - or how it happened that the scandal (with those full page tabloid photos and descriptions of toe sucking) broke right before the convention? Is there anything about the timing of that whole business that suggests to you there might have more to it than the poison dwarf getting himself a paid kinky seeing to?
The Obamanates are enchanted with the seemy side.
Too much Disney as children; too much R rated Entertainment Industry product after that.
Here is a petition to the SD’s citing reasons to support HRC.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/supporthillary/
Person he saw yesterday is not the person he saw over 20 years. Thinks Wright was “pained and angered,” felt villified and attacked and wanted to defend himself. Going thru difficult times of late, leaving his ministry–which may account for the changes in Wright.
Shocked, surprised.
Built very fine church, well respected throughout Chicago. Never heard such statements. Did not vet his pastor (but did ask him to not show up at announcement he was running for prez-my comment).
No one can attribute those ideas to him, Obama.
Obama seems deflated and down. His hope phrases sound–rote.
Barack Obama is on CNN now giving a live press conference on Rev. Wright. I’ll live blog.
I was just going to post about that sonia.
Did you notice how uncomfortable he looks?
He is “stuck on stupid” about Wright and spinnin so fast he can’t speak.
I’ve never seen him or heard him sound so confused and weak. Really NOT presidential material.
I kinda feel sorry for him.
It’s like he doesn’t know what just hit him!
lol ok so it’s a bit funny
cuz he knows that any reasonable person who disagreed with Wright would have run screaming from that church the first time Wright went on a tear. You wouldn’t ask the guy to bless your house, baptize your children, or marry you. Nor would you give over 50k to the church and help finance his golden parachute.
Fact: Obama asked Wright to disappear last year because of his comments. He can spin it all he wants, but that’s the fact. Guess that pretty little speech of his didn’t do jack, when Wright went out on his PR tour.
i know
i am enjoying it
iused to be a sweet dem who would vote for either dem
but so many sexist and racial statements from obama,,michelle,,and thier supporters have med me bitter
and now i cling to hillary and cling to all pro-hillary blogs,,,,,
i love hill
i love hill
i love hill and bill
and i would love to see obama go down(unfortunately)
Well he is SQUEEEEEEZED between WRIGHT AND SHARPTON…..That’s gotta hurt…..Anyway you cut it Both these AA preachermen are sayin Barry is a suck up to the CRACKER MAN…..That’s gotta hurt…..
And, MICHELLE was angered … that’s probably the real issue. Barry apparently doesn’t want to upset the Mrs.
Not time to be distracted, time to pull together, Did not matter to Wright and he made those comments.
Presser being used to make absolutely clear that whatever relationship he had with Wright has changed. Doesn’t think Wright showed much concern for him (Obama) or for the public.
Absolutely clear –does not subscribe to Wright’s views, believes they are wrong, destructive. Does not expect W’s views to be attributed to him Obama.
He does not look good saying these things.
Hmmmm…….SHAPIN UP TO BE A FINE WEEK FOR SEN. CLINTON…….
ROFLOL
you’ve had to say that a few times lately!!
YAY!
obama,,,,—oblonder
obama====another drama
what takes him 2 days to come out his closet ,,,,oh yeah ,,he need help in figuering out what to say
Wright.. that’s the small stuff.
As Rezko waits in the wings ala the Joker…
“wait til they get a load of me!”
Will Rezko and Auchi do a press junket like Wright’s? Or will they be in prison? Perhaps Geraldo can do a prison interview with them.
Wright is a problem, but let us not lose sight of the other characters in Obama’s ever growing closet. It’s getting awfully crowded under his bus.
Wright isn’t finished.
Barry Obama is an ingrate. That’s what Wright and the congregation are going to feel. They know when he was in that church and when he laughed and when he clapped and when he slapped skin. Films at 11 …
You got that right…..Neither one of them (Wright or Sharpton) are done.
Strategically it gives AA pols. a chance to back out….
“You got that right…..Neither one of them (Wright or Sharpton) are done.
Strategically it gives AA pols. a chance to back out….”
African-American pols, particularly the younger set, like Obama and Booker, have been wanting to “back out” from the grip of Sharpton and Wright for ages.
Jeff ( sigh ) I just don’t think you understand….
Sharpton layed a trap for your candidate and set up the retreat….
This comes from way up……He is being squeeeeeeeeeeezed….
“Jeff ( sigh ) I just don’t think you understand….
Sharpton layed a trap for your candidate and set up the retreat….
This comes from way up……He is being squeeeeeeeeeeezed….”
That sigh is out of desperation.
Again, the vast majority of African-Americans don’t have a problem with a community leader like Obama advocating non-violence in the face of social injustice. It might even remind them of, oh, what’s his name, that guy, you know…
(Dr. Martin Luther King)
Also, I think you have this idea that NYC in the wake of Sean Bell is the same as LA in the wake of Rodney King, or even NYC in the wake of Amadou Diallo or Abner Louima. I’ve lived here since Louima, and I can assure you, it’s not like that at all, owing almost entirely to the fact that the Giuliani years are over. We’ve had a racially inclusive mayor for the last 7 years who went out of his way in the wake of the Sean Bell shooting to question the police tactics involved, and to help the community grieve.
That act alone, along with 7 years of solid outreach by Bloomberg, neuters any kind of ridiculous attempt by Sharpton to stir up another race war.
I was here when Martin Luther King was here. Barry is no Martin Luther King. He’s also no RFK and he’s DEFINITELY no JFK.
You need to go read some of Barry’s book, particularly about how he learned that using his race can help in elections. He started early, when he needed it. When Bill said his Iraq statements were a “fairy tale” suddenly that was a racist remark. The fact is, it WAS a fairy tale. But it definitely wasn’t racist. He needed to split the blacks from their beloved Clintons. The problem is, Barry is losing the white people in leaps and bounds because he has his surrogates out pulling the race card left and right in the media. And now his buddy Gov Wilder managed to piss off more women too with his sexist sterotyping remarks that were SO STUPID that even JAMAL jumped on it.
MLK wouldn’t have “dreamed” of doing in public what barry and his surrogates have done.
..oh…I forgot to smack you upside the head Jeff…Dang.
Jeff ( sigh ) BABY-O stepped on Rev. Sharptons toes…..nuff said…
“Jeff ( sigh ) BABY-O stepped on Rev. Sharptons toes…..nuff said…”
The emptiness of your reply to my explanation of the Bell reaction shows you don’t know much about the case, or New York City. All you can do is repeat yourself: “…uh, Sharpton!” “BABY-O!”
Can’t you at least throw fascist in somewhere? I’m getting downright nostalgiac for it!
“Barry Obama is an ingrate. That’s what Wright and the congregation are going to feel.”
I think African-Americans might feel more passion for seeing one of their own become President of the United States, than that some ranting minister got called out for what he was.
You guys are hilarious. You spend a nuclear reactor’s worth of energy tearing Wright limb from limb over his fringe views, saying most African-American churches aren’t like that. Then when Obama disses him, you expect the entire African-American community to rise up and defend Wright.
Squeeeeeeeeeezed……The rest of the congregation has spoken….
Yeah kinda like when Clarence used the Uppity Black race card to get onto the supreme court and then kicked the ladder out from under him and Uncle Tom’d them. Barry is starting to look a lot like that. Along with, what did wright call Condoleeza? Anybody?
See Barry has to make up his mind whose votes he wants, because he is woefully inadequate at “uniting” anybody. And that is why he will NEVER be president.
“See Barry has to make up his mind whose votes he wants, because he is woefully inadequate at “uniting” anybody. And that is why he will NEVER be president.”
This is an interesting statement. You require Obama to decide between different racial groups, then call him a failer at “uniting anybody”. It’s quite clear which kind of candidate you prefer.
Barack Obama is on CNN now giving a live press conference on Rev. Wright. I’ll live blog.
He’s throwing Wright under the bus. When he hears conspiracy theories about AIDS or that Farrakhan is a great person, it goes directly contrary to what he believes.
The person he saw yesterday was not the person he has come to know over 20 years. He understands Wright felt villified and attacked and wanted to defend himself. But the insensitivity and outrageousness of his statements and performance during q and a period shocked and suprised him.
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Uh oh. Do you think that Obama saying these things is going to rile Wright up even further?
I mean… he’s really battling Wright, and unless it’s all been staged, Obama may have really stirred it up this time. I have a feeling he won’t be going to that church anytime soon. His bus must be pretty large to also include the entire congregation of TUCC, because his comments about Wright also impune the congregation because they sat through it all this time, and thought Obama was one of them.
Unless they tie Wright up and gag him…..He will come out swinging…..
Man’s got books and tapes to sell
“Unless they tie Wright up and gag him…..He will come out swinging…..
Man’s got books and tapes to sell”
Don’t you understand? The best thing that could happen to Obama out of this is to turn Wright against him, get him to dis him publicly, which is clearly just around the corner. Then Obama can point out that clearly he and the reverend operate in different worlds of thinking.
I think you are either over simplifying this or you don’t have a grip on the “dis the brother” back lash, but empty that Koolaide cup …. I’m sure you’ll feel better. Gaza is a long way away from the street action.
Not after dedicating his book to him. There is too much evidence of Obama praising Wright for him to distance himself. Obama used him early in his political career and now he is paying the price.
“There is too much evidence of Obama praising Wright for him to distance himself.”
The distancing is being done as we speak. All the media will talk about now is how Obama has dissed his former pastor.
If I am right about Wright being a megalomaniac, he’s going to prove Barry was in the pews at the wrong time. Wright is one mad nutcase at this point. He wants to “expose” Barry as a Tom. I can smell it. You see, having a black President does not benefit the Reverend Wrights of the world. Then what will he be able to yell about? How can he be divisive?…um I mean…”descriptive”? How on earth can the Black Liberation Theology live with barry out there? The Rev has dedicated his LIFE to it.
Oh and wait till the NEW Reverend’s video gets viral about the Crucifixion of Wright…on Easter of all days.
Today, Barack made a poo poo. He said Wright was never his “spirtual advisor”. Funny, he called him that plenty of times. He said Wright keeps in straight or some such thing besides. If I remember it, it’s out there and will be found.
BABY-O is caught between 2 AA pastors who are both saying essentially the same thing about the ONE…..
They are both saying he’s a suck up to the …..CRACKER MAN……
There aint’ much BABY-O can say to that…..
……………..JUICY……….
A FINE WEEK FOR SEN. CLINTON
Obama saying that this is about making sure the people understand who he is. Wright’s comments contradict everything he has done and believed in in his life and public service.
Can’t construct anything positive out of what Wright did yesterday. Can try to understand why he did what he did. Lists positives about Wright.
PS–Says Rev. Wright — I am typing as fast as I can.
Sounds like he is cutting all ties to Wright.
Sees this as sign of disrespect to him (Obama).
Obama looks shaken.
not stirred?
I had to turn it off
It was painful
much like his concession speech will be I have no doubt!
DID U CONCESSION SPEECH ,,
DID U SAY AMEN AFTER THAT
JOIN ME
RAISE YOUR HANDE TO GOD AND SAY
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HE SHOULD BE SHAKEN…..Would you want either Wright or Sharpton breathing down your ass…..
Obama just gave a significant block of the AA vote to Clinton….
I swear that tape will come out of him in Church.
He just gave permission to release it. They don’t have to protect him any more.
“Obama just gave a significant block of the AA vote to Clinton….”
Obviously you don’t know many “AA”’s. They’re more upset over what Rev. Wright has done to Obama than anyone else.
Yeah, you hold on to that hopey changey ….
He just split his own base…..The Lil Prince has Sharpton and Wright breathin down his ass for suckin up to the CRACKER MAN…..
Who’s goin to save his ass…..Oprah ? Teddy ?
“He just split his own base…..The Lil Prince has Sharpton and Wright breathin down his ass for suckin up to the CRACKER MAN…..
Who’s goin to save his ass…..Oprah ? Teddy ?”
Your comments reveal a lot more about you, and your racially narrow attitude, than anything to do with Obama or Wright. You assume that African A’s hang on every word of a Wright or a Sharpton, people who are really marginal figures at best in the black community. However, what is certainly true is the deep, unwavering pride the vast majority of African-Americans feel regarding the first viable African-American candidacy in our nation’s history. And Obama’s dissing of an egomaniac who is clearly out to knee-cap him is certainly not going to change that one iota.
I agree that I doubt it will have that much impact what it does show is the fundamental weakness of the Obama candidacy when you play ethnic identity politics. When you align yourself so strongly with one ethnic group there will be backlash in other ethnic groups. That is his problem he cannot broaden his identity with voters. He is playing a game that can work at local levels but not at national politics.
“When you align yourself so strongly with one ethnic group there will be backlash in other ethnic groups.”
I disagree on the merits, but I appreciate your open-minded, non-hostile response. My opinion is that by taking this back-handed gift from Wright and using it to distance himself properly, Obama can reverse some of the damage this whole episode has caused him with other groups. But we’ll see, won’t we?
No…..I am recognizing the political pull that Rev. Sharpton has…..He’s been in the party a long time……
“No…..I am recognizing the political pull that Rev. Sharpton has…..He’s been in the party a long time……”
No, you’re exaggerating it.
OMG - So Obama will do anything to get elected. I disagree vehemently with Wright, and think he uses racism to manipulate his congregation and to make himself important…
HOWEVER
Obama has had a CLOSE relationship with him for 20 years, he is their family pastor, friend, “spiritual advisor”, “moral compass”, and he is tossing him in the garbage heap at this moment. He looks pained because he is becoming a Judas at this moment. He is sacrificing a close friend, and the entire congregation, because he wants to be president.
Drop out Obama!
He has looked rode hard and put away wet for weeks. Barry is a lightweight.
campaign.
He felt there was a complete disregard for what the American people are going through.
He keeps repeating Wright’s statements were a “performance.” What mattered to Wright was “commanding center stage.”
He wants to use this conference to say that whatever relationship he had with Wright has changed. He didn’t show regard for Obama or American people.
He hasn’t spoken to Wright about this.
Obama says he reaction today has more to do with who he is and what this campaign is about rather than the political aspects. What Rev. Wright said yesterday directly contradicts what he’s done over his life. From how he was raised, to his decision to go into public service, what he said in his books and in his 2004 speech and in his presidential announcement.
There was nothing constructive out of yesterday. It was a bunch of rants that aren’t grounded in truth. He can’t construct something positive out of that.
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Seems like EVERTHING he says lately is just another NAFTA moment.
So, for 20 years as a “pastor, not a mentor,” Obama didn’t know the “real” Wright. Sorry, I’m not buying it. In order to get political street creds, you chose to expose your daughters to Wright’s hate-filled diatribes. Political gain is more important to you than your children. We know the “real” Obama now.
Doesn’t Obama realize that he’s quoted all over the internet calling Wright his “mentor”, “spiritual advisor”, and “moral compass”? He has several quotes saying that he “runs thing by Wright” to be sure he’s gotten it right, morally. Does he not realize that we all KNOW that Wright baptized his children and blessed his house?
This could get very ugly. The media has access to all of that info, and they’re not going to just let it sit there. It’s become a battle between Wright and Obama, and oddly enough, I find that Wright is right in this one. I vehemently disagree with Wright’s rhetoric, but no one deserves to be disowned in favor of political power. If it was just a guy that preached at his family church, I could almost buy that — but Wright is much more to the Obamas.
Shame on him.
From the Louisiana Weekly
America needs Jeremiah Wrights
By Rev. Barbara Reynolds, NNPA Columnist
March 25, 2008
“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
I guess the book gets a title change? International “no” symbol across the cover …
So much for just handling it properly when it hit the media that Friday night, right?
Do people ever pay attention?
Americans are the most forgiving of all people on earth. Come on. Just try us. Don’t bullshit us. Yeah, I was there. I heard this, but I didn’t hear that. I felt that in context it was not so bad. When you hear it that way, yes, I understand. My bad. MOVE on … but no. Didn’t hear it. Not there. BIG FREAKING speech to cover his ass and yep, did hear it … well, some of it but I’m not going to tell you what. Then, throws granma under a bus, and calls her a typical white person. Follows it up with bitter whites clinging to guns and bibles and not going to vote for a black man. Now, Uncle Jerry joins granny.
He’s a mess.
Well…….I exect we will hear from either The Nation of Islam or The New Black Panthers next….
Does not inspire confidence in his ability to choose policy advisors and mentors - which, given his inexperience, he will need.
Let’s add this episode to the piece I just saw on Yahoo’s front page about “liberal bloggers” attacking Obama for his performance on Fox.
They feel he’s a sell-out for throwing them under the bus.
This is what happens when you try to be all things to all people — you become nobody to anyone.
And Hillary is quietly moving forward, keeping it focused on message.
Amazing!
Now he is saying anything (politician) just to save his ass. He will do anything to get the nomination. Where have I heard those words? What took him so long to do his homework on the person who he looked to for guidance.
And now he is saying he never called Wright his spiritual advisor, but his pastor. Am I totally crazy, but didn’t he call him a spiritual advisor in the Past?
I expect Farrakhan to jump on the Wright Sharpton DON’T SUCK UP TO CRACKER BANDWAGON…..
He hasn’t spoken to Wright about this.
Obama says he reaction today has more to do with who he is and what this campaign is about rather than the political aspects. What Rev. Wright said yesterday directly contradicts what he’s done over his life and what he believes. From how he was raised, to his decision to go into public service, what he said in his books and in his 2004 speech and in his presidential announcement.
There was nothing constructive out of yesterday. It was a bunch of rants that aren’t grounded in truth. He can’t construct something positive out of that.
Wright disrespected him and insulted what his campaign has been trying to do. Michelle was similarly angered.
On Black Liberation Theology: Says he’s not a theologian. He went to church and listened to sermons. In those that he heard, and it’s true in many black churches, there’s an emphasis on the importance of social struggle, a social gospel.
What we saw yesterday was that when you overly focus on the plight of the oppressed, it doesn’t bring people together.
He didn’t view the initial round of soundbites as an attack on the black church but a caricature of who Wright was. The Moyers interview at least gave some sense of rounding out the edges. Yesterday he caricatured himself. That made Obama angry and also sad.
He tried unsuccessfully to reach Wright before PA speech. Did speak to him after, and told him he found what was in the snippets being aired offensive and inexcusable.
There’s been great damage. It may have been unintentional on his part, but he does not see the relationship being the same after this.
Says Wright said one thing that was true: He was never Obama’s mentor or spiritual advisor. “He was my pastor, married Michelle and I, baptized my children, prayed with us when we announced this race, so I’m disappointed.”
We’ve got to dig up those Obama quotes where he clearly states otherwise.
On June 5th, 2007, Senator Barack Obama spoke before 8,000 people gathered in Hampton University’s Convocation Center. Most of them were pastors and ministers attending a conference there.
He was there to speak on mostly post Katrina issues and to criticize the Bush administration’s efforts during that natural disaster. Obama tried his catch phrase of the moment, saying that a “quiet riot” might be occurring in America and he affirmed that he felt that America was a racist nation, that the reaction to Katrina had just “pulled back the screen” on America’s racism. Obama also used rhetoric heavily doused with religious symbolism.
But, that boiler plate aside, there was two very interesting segments in Obama’s remarks concerning his racist “spiritual mentor,” Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. that are not getting the press it deserves. (See the video at Channel 2 News Chicago)
He was effusive in his praise and admiration for Wright, this foaming at the mouth, hate monger. This runs contrary to his late claims that he is somehow shocked by Wright’s racism, or that he now disagrees with him as well as his claim that he was not familiar enough with Wright to know of his point of view.
As the speech kicked off (at 1:07 into the video), Obama introduced the Rev. Wright to the audience with these glowing and highly personal words:
And then I’ve got to give a special shout out to my Pastor. The guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader not just in Chicago but all across the country, so please everybody give an extraordinary welcome to my pastor Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Trinity United Church of Christ.
Where’s he at? There he is. That’s him, that’s him right there.
You wearing a suit today, right?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/03/16/contrary-claims-obama-very-close-racist-preacher-wright
I knew I could count on you Beebop!
Research is my middle name!
Please note, he says”extraordinary welcome to my pastor”…. he does not say my “spiritual advisor.”
O/T
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NOW MSNBC is spinning for him.
Andrea traitor Mitchell is so brainless!
SHE JUST WANT A d*i*c*k*
she has crush on obama,,,,
Agree…..Mitchelle’s head probably looks bigger than usual cause she’s lost so much weight blowin Barry…..COME UP FOR AIR….Andrea
“SHE JUST WANT A d*i*c*k*
she has crush on obama,,,,”
Are you 9?
Do you understand the concept of celebrating?
Your guy is DEAD … crushed under his own hubris. He just de-negrofied himself. Now he’s a guy totally standing without his creds. He’s pissed off 2/3 of the voter base of the Democratic party and now he’s called the guy who “made” him in Chicago a whacko?
hahahahahahaha … no unity pony … just pony shit.
Jeff think you should come up for air as well….Your mouth has gotta be numb by now…..
We’re celebrating.
Your guy is toast. Crushed by his own hubris.
Unity pony? Nope. Just pony poop.
why ,,in ur house 9 yr olds know about d*i*c*k*s*,,not in my house ,,,,,,D*i*C*k*s* are for 18+
actually
i am 28,,,eduacted ,,successful,,,happily married woman ,,with a lot of d*i*c*k* when i need it
but don,t be surprised with the words i use,,
i am just typical white person ,,,who has gotten bitter because of obama,michelle,,and thier obamabots behavior,so now i cling to hillary and hillary blogs,,, ,,,,,not only me
but all of the non obama supporters are bitter because of obama- supporters
“i am just typical white person”
You’re also a foul-mouthed illiterate.
i am just typical white person”
You’re also a foul-mouthed illiterate
and in ur house ,,you teach 9 yr olds about d*i*c*k&s*
oh yeah ,,i forgot ,,,u r obama follower who believes in sex education starting age 5 kg schooll ,,,,,,
and i will say ,,,,,andrea needs obama,s d*I*C*K*
what u can do ?
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Contributions given to Hillary are going to be
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This drive is through midnight on Wednesday.
So please go to Hillaryclinton.com and donate and tell everyone you know about this drive.
Sonia:
Is there a limit? Or is it 50 for 50?
its like they will double it
so if i give 25,,they match it for 50
so i am gonna give 500$,,,
actually ,,,,,i got cash from hubby this morning ,,and gave it to my friend neighbor to swipe her card at hillary,s site ,,,and her own donors will match it to 1000$,,woaaaaaaa
so i am putting signs in my street too ,,,about contributing to hillary ,,to solutions for america
ROFLOL
and FOX news is wondering if “Hill and BILL will be measuring curtains for the white house after this!!” LOLOL
If I didn’t hear it myself I would never believe it. Of course that girl I don’t recognize from FOX. She must be new and didn’t get the MEMO that you can’t say nice things about Hill if you include BILL in the sentence!
The GOP ATTACK MACHINE JUST IMPLODED…..They are frantically searching for dirt that is’nt 10 years old and not centered on Monica to sling at Clinton…….The GOP wet dream is over….
God PLEASE don’t let there be ANY!!!
GO HILLARY!!!
Are you kidding? If there were, we CERTAINLY would have heard it by NOW…that’s why they have to call her sexist names and pounce on every little thing she says. And bring up Monica every five minutes. Because they don’t have anything else.
From the Chicago Tribune January 2007.
Keep those quotes coming….Anything from Farrakhan yet ?
Sorry, but Obama’s remarks were about as “Wright” on as they could have been regarding the reverend today.
“And then I’ve got to give a special shout out to my Pastor. The guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader not just in Chicago but all across the country, so please everybody give an extraordinary welcome to my pastor Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Trinity United Church of Christ. ”
Jeff, honey.. don’t you have a lawn to mow? Or SATs to study for?
NCLB tests, maybe?
“Jeff, honey.. don’t you have a lawn to mow? Or SATs to study for?”
No, but I am bored at work. And quit calling me honey, you’re getting me all excited!
ROFL….It’s important to keep a sense of humor in the face of disaster.
C’mon Jeff……Jump ship…..Join the other side…..
Serious deprogramming will be needed first.
honey,,,
honey
honey
bored at work????
wow
is that story everyday ,,,,,bored
like obama is bored with this election ,,,
Actually I expect Farrakhan to come to Wright’s defense…..Or perhaps the New Black Panthers…..
Whoa, they are giving BO “strength” points????
Twice I’ve hear it now on two different channels. He showed strength????
LMAO no WAY! He looked like some weak confused little boy.
Not sure what video they were watching.
weak
he looks mui weak
He’s looking for another Secret Service detail to augment the one he has ….
Hmmmm…….Don’t expect Barry and Meeeeechelle to be visitin the homestead any time soon….
“stength points”: Umm.. he had on a nice suit. and umm.. he didn’t accidentally spit when he talked.. and he showed up on time!
That’s about it.
“Whoa, they are giving BO “strength” points????
Twice I’ve hear it now on two different channels. He showed strength????”
Sorry to break it to you, but he’s handled this well, and the networks know it.
He looked slick and polished and came off like those smooth talkers from my single girl days who’d say anything to get you into bed…
But he looked like he forgot to use his Grecian Formula this morning…his hair is looking a little grey…
After Obama’s denunciation of him, expect the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah to pinpoint the discussions they’ve had together, and the times Obama and Michelle were clapping in church, too.
Oh, man. That bus just hit a BIG bump. Blood everywhere (metaphorically speaking).
Yeah……IT’S HARD TO KEEP A GIGANTIC EGO DOWN…..
Olbermann named NPR’s Rudin “Worst Person” for comparing Clinton to Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction
http://mediamatters.org/items/200804290003
too friggen late KEITH
you need to name YOURSELF as worst person in the world (a few times) for all the terrible “personal” garbage you’ve spewed about Hillary over the last months.
oh ,,yeah
go to hillaryclintonforum
they have olberman,s pics with a lot of funny stuff on it
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/
But last night, as I was channel surfing, I stopped in for the first time in 3 months to see how Keith was spinning the Reverend Wright fiasco…he spent 5 minutes with Howard Fineman trying to figure out what Barry should do about Wright…he looks so worried, poor thing. His imaginary cool black boyfriend is going down and Keith wants to help…that’s so sweet. Awwwwww…
Media continue to ignore McCain’s flip-flop on Iraq-Korea comparison
http://mediamatters.org/items/200804280009
Wright said that he understood that Obama was just saying what was necessary as a politicia. Now Wright is finding just how true that was. And he doesn’t much like the taste of it.
Obama Lies AGAIN!!
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I saw a clip of his denouncement of Wright and he said he is not my spiritual advisor or mentor but my pastor.
Obama has said many times he’s his mentor and spiritual adviser!!
LIAR!!
On MSNBC they are spitting all over themselves about how he has denounced Wright.
A FINE WEEK FOR SEN. CLINTON…..and just in time for NC. and IN.
PPP’s Indiana poll has Clinton up 8, 50-42. The story is familiar:
[Clinton] leads 54-38 with white voters [(85% of the vote)], 54-39 with female voters [(55%)], and 55-36 with voters over the age of 65 [(21%)]. Obama, as usual, does well with black voters (73-21) [(12%)] and voters 18-29 (50-40) [10%].
Indiana has an open primary but it’s unclear who will benefit from that. Clinton leads 48-47 with the 14% of voters who described themselves as Republicans. Obama has the 52-37 edge with voters who described their affiliation as being ‘other’ than either Democratic or Republican. Those voters made up 12% of the survey.
Poll numbers for North Carolina are quite close, thus the Rev. is being sent out to drum up electorate votes in one sector of voters there.
Meanwhile Kentucky has fried the Obama movie. They’ve jumped the shark, and appear to have flipped the bird.
Obama is now throwing Wright under the unity bus, and the man has never spoken for him. The audacity of hype!
Elizabeth Edwards ON MSNBC….
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despite the rude and attempted forceful interviewing by that awful commentator (name escapes me) she says mccain’s healthcare bad for us …did not hear what she said about HILLARY … ??? anyone? also this commentator tried to pressure ELizabeth and her Senator Edwards into making an endorsement to “stop the bloodletting of this dem race” basically Elizabeth says that “if we thought something that bad was going on we would step up if it would make a difference and we do not see that need right now… and the commentator (oh O’donnel?) called her “Senator” and then referred to Barack as “senator edwards” I think EVERYONE is struggling to face the truth… HILLARY IS WINNING and is going too….. !!!!!!!
Obama must be dizzy by now all that spinning. At his big presser today he said that the wright who spoke yesterday is not the man he met twenty years ago. Well how about ten yrs ago or five years ago or two years ago or one year ago. When is it obama when did wright become this person you do not know? Please do not say he just changed yesterday.
Is it morning already because I smell toast!
LOL! I hope it’s cinnamon raisin, that’s my favorite! Toast is good for you if you’re nauseous and dizzy from spinning too much.
thing about experience is that it isn’t a word, it shows. In how you handle yourself in interviews, how long you take to hope something will go away before you speak about it. Barack had to make this statement before the news of Wright broke to make it in time. And if he felt the need to be interviewed by Fox, he ought to have known how to run an interview. Hillary showed with the KO interview that she knows how to do a great interview even with a guy who couldn’t wait to get a ‘gottcha’ moment. Barack just isn’t ready. We had this with Kerry, who ought to have known he had some swiftboaters coming, who out not to have taken time from his campaign to go wind surfing, who ought not to have given his wife a prominent place in his campaign, and who ought to have spent the money I and many like me gave him, wisely and all of it, he didn’t have the fire to win, and sadly neither does Barack. Neither the fire, nor the wisdom nor the experience to manage debates and interviews.
Ooooooo I feel a blog post coming on…
Obama is trying to minimize Wright. He’s known him “for less than 20 years.”
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[...] When it suits his all-consuming political ambitions, at the time … (by SusanUnPC at No Quarter) Obama has over-emphasized his Christian faith to fend off accusations from the right that he is a secret Muslim. That suits his ambition to become the Democratic nominee and to become president. But, it’s a delicate dance to claim he’s a devout Christian when he also claims that he never heard Wright’s rants — which would LOGICALLY mean that he rarely attended Wright’s Trinity church. Which is it, Barack? Did you carefully select to attend only on the Sundays when Wright never railed against America and white people? Or is this another of your cover-ups? Some folks have the audacity to think that the only reason Obama, formerly a skeptic if not a full-blown atheist, joined the church to gain political juice. [...]
[...] When it suits his all-consuming political ambitions, at the time … (by SusanUnPC at No Quarter) Obama has over-emphasized his Christian faith to fend off accusations from the right that he is a secret Muslim. That suits his ambition to become the Democratic nominee and to become president. But, it’s a delicate dance to claim he’s a devout Christian when he also claims that he never heard Wright’s rants — which would LOGICALLY mean that he rarely attended Wright’s Trinity church. Which is it, Barack? Did you carefully select to attend only on the Sundays when Wright never railed against America and white people? Or is this another of your cover-ups? Some folks have the audacity to think that the only reason Obama, formerly a skeptic if not a full-blown atheist, joined the church to gain political juice. [...]