Uncle Jeremiah Wright was Right [Updated] (Update 2)
By Larry Johnson on April 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM in Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Boy did Reverend Wright call it correctly the other day. He indicated that Barack is the kind of guy who will say politically what needs to be said regardless of what he believes. Well, Barack proved him right. Two months ago he had never heard Wright say anything objectionable in 20 years. Now, apparently, in the last eight weeks, aliens have taken over the body and mind of Wright and he is saying things he has never said before. Right? Wrong.
What do you think?
UPDATE. Compare Obama’s statements today with what he said in the past. What has he learned about Wright in the last eight weeks that he did not know previously? Obama indicated he had heard Wright say objectionable things about the United States, but he could shrug it off during his Philly speech. I think we are seeing the emergence of a new illness–Obama Acquired Memory Loss (which is LMAO spelled backwards). He spent twenty years with Wright but really did not know that he held such objectionable views? He has spent approximately twenty years with William Ayers and barely knows the guy? He spent 18 years with Tony Rezko and barely knows him? Sure sounds like Obama does not know much of anything.
Barack says he didn’t “vet” his pastor. Really? Then why did Barack ask him not to appear in public with him when he announced for President (but was willing to pray with him backstage)? Here are the Barack flip flops:
Early last year, Obama admitted to Wright he might have to ‘publicly distance himself’ for political reasons. Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. Obama’s audition for the ultimate establishment job. “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.” [New York Times, 4/30/07]
Obama today: ‘I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency.’ “During the course of me attending that church, I had not heard those kinds of statements being made or those kinds of views being promoted. And I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency.” [Obama Press Conference, 4/29/08]
[HUH? Before declaring for President, Obama disinvited Wright from his official announcement, citing ‘rough’ sermons. “Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, ‘The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.’…According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, ‘You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.’” [New York Times, 3/6/07]]
Sen. Obama today: ‘During the course of me attending that church, I had not heard those kinds of statements being made or those kinds of views being promoted.’ “But the insensitivity and the outrageousness of his statements and his performance and the question and answer period yesterday, I think, shocked me. It surprised me… During the course of me attending that church, I had not heard those kinds of statements being made or those kinds of views being promoted. And I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency. I was a member of the church.” [Obama Press Conference, 4/29/08]
Sen. Obama in March: I heard Wright make ‘controversial’ statements about ‘American domestic and foreign policy.’ “Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely…” [Sen. Obama speech, 3/18/08]
Obama describes Wright as ‘the guy who counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader.’ “I 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 throughout the country. So please, everybody, give an extraordinary welcome to my pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr.” [Obama remarks, Hampton University, June 2007; video]
[UPDATE 2] PUHLEAZE!! Like the gendarme in Casablanca poor Senator Obama is shocked, shocked I tell you, by the outrageous things Wright said yesterday. You have got to be kidding me? Wright said worse, on video tape, on multiple occasions and Barack had no trouble ignoring those. So what did he say yesterday that Barack found so damn objectionable? How does this reconcile with Barack’s previous statements?
3/17/08 -Obama: ‘I think the caricature that is being painted of [Wright] is not accurate.’ “I think the caricature that is being painted of him is not accurate. And so part of what I’ll do tomorrow is to talk a little bit about how some of these issues are perceived from within the black church community, for example, which I think views this very differently.” [Obama press briefing, 3/17/08]
3/15/08 - Obama: ‘In fairness to him, this was sort of a greatest hits. They basically culled five or six sermons out of 30 years of preaching.’ The things he said and the way he said them I think are offensive. And I reject them, and they don’t reflect who I am or what I believe in. In fairness to him, this was sort of a greatest hits. They basically culled five or six sermons out of 30 years of preaching. That doesn’t excuse them, and I’ve said so very clearly, but that’s not the relationship I had with him. That’s not the relationship I had with the church, and if I had heard those kinds of statements being said, if I had been in church on those days, I would have objected fiercely to them, and I would have told him personally. [Chicago Tribune, 3/15/08
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We don’t think, we drank our Kool aide!
Obama has two pissed off preachers on his tail….and Neither will let up.
Obama would have us believe that he does NOT share the values and beliefs of ANY of the people he has chosen to befriend, such as Wright, Ayers, Auchi, Rezko, Dohrn, Khalidi, etc! How is this possible??? In short, IT ISN”T!!! He has made all the wrong decisions from the very start of his political career, from where to work, who to marry, which political arena to learn the ins and outs of politics in, who to befriend, and who to choose as campaign manager. Evelyn Pringle of scoop.com has written a 3-part series on Obama’s rise in Chicago politics, and she chastises the Dem party leaders for not doing their homework on this guy before hoisting him on the unsuspecting voting public. She states “any fifth grader” could have obtained the information she did! From her factual data, it is glaringly apparent that Obama was groomed by the corrupt Chicago political machine who had plans to take their game from the streets of Chicago to the Halls of the White House on the coattails of Obama, but the FBI intervened, and now Obama’s BFF Rezko and others are on trial for charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering. Blagojevich was actually the one they wanted to be president, but when he came under FBI suspicion, they pulled the number 2 pawn, Obama, off the bench to take his place. By the way, Obama says in the 18 years he knew Rezko, who helped him buy his mansion, he never had more than a passing acquaintanceship with the guy. The FBI, who was tailing Rezko, said in court that Obama either visited Rezko’s office or telephoned him almost every day!!! I guess we now know we cannot believe a word Obama says. Go to chicagotribune.com for gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Rezko trial. The Dem party leaders will never admit their mistake, but even if Obama gets the nomination, whether or not he becomes president is still up to the voters. We must go to the polls in November and vote for McCain if Obama becomes the nominee. To do otherwise would put this country in danger! Educate yourselves before you cast another vote!!!
Just a slight correction.. and off topic, but just trying for accuracy..
It would be pretty doubtful that Blagojevich could have ever been considered the first choice of anyone for Presidential material, let alone the Chicago machine. Blagojevich is loathed–loathed–by Mike Madigan the Dem speaker of the illinois house and a mover/shaker/pol.. It does not appear that Rich Daley cares for B either as B will not give him his casino that he desperately wants.
On the other hand Blagojevich and Obama share the good graces of Emil Jones the Dem president of the Ill State Senate and a chief power broker in Chicago south side politics. From what I understand, it was Jones who spiffed up Barry’s resume by letting BO take credit for those bills he says he go passed while here in Illinois.
Larry,
Can you get any info to Hillary campaign. I had an idea today. If you heard Bush talk today, he was talking about the oil in the Anwar Province and we need to drill it and get it. And we also need to continue to add to the Strategic Oil Reserves. (Naturally, Bush’s position) How about a position by Hillary that would stop filling the Oil reserves at this point and actually start using the oil by selling it on the open market? That will drive the cost of oil down. Use the money that we sell it for to finance a bail out of people who are losing their homes, and finance an investigation into behavior that caused this. Let’s use the Anwar province as our Strategic Oil Reserves. Don’t drill for it, but just use the reserves there as oue SOR. Imagine, if we used 20% to 30% of the oil in reserves to start to help bail out this country. It is weird to be adding such expensive oil to the SOR. Lets stop that. Break the escalating cost of oil.
Todd Beeton at MyDD quotes Obama from his press conference, “”The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I had come to know over 20 years.” Beeton then observes, “That’s a big problem for someone running on judgment.”
Just said the same thing but not as well. That point should not get lost in all the clamor.
Yeah, I thought Beeton expressed it very succinctly, so I made a point of posting this comment in a few places where Hillary’s supporters congregate.
I don’t think that person yesterday is that far different from God Damn America the weekend after 9/11/01 … and Barack was in church that day.
Sorry … chickens coming home to roost.
Actually, all kidding aside, what invokes the real truth is not the political correctness Obama tried to shower this entire Wright thing by making it an “everyone elses fault” thing with his speech on race.
All one needs do is take a look at Barack’s wife Michelle, there is where the truth lies, free of political spins and dusting under the rug!
Is the next one to go under the bus?
Is she the next one to go under the bus?
Doubt it she isn’t old and could probably kick the crap out of Barack in less than 2 minutes…lol
I think Obama’s memory problems stem from to much “snorting” when he was younger..lol
I have a different take on him throwing Rev. Wright under the bus..I think he would like to put him on a space shuttle and send him to the moon…
While watching Obama speak on live TV, I couldn’t help but think of the high-priced prostitute that actress Jill Ireland played in the Charles Bronson film, “The Mechanic.” She would say anything, and she could say it pretty convincingly, for money. Sadly, it appears that Obama will say anything, perhaps less convincingly now, to get elected.
“Obama will say anything, perhaps less convincingly”
He’s never convinced me.
The current hemorrhage in the Obama campaign represents a human dynamic that’s just barely getting started.
The window of opportunity for Obama to distance from Wright has long since past. If he was going to do it, he could only have succeeded years ago. Distancing today will only be seen in retrospect as a failure of loyalty on Obama’s part. (W)Right or wrong, Obama took Wright’s support when it was useful, then played the Judas card when it was inconvenient.
Ironically, Wright shows a far better sense of loyalty than Obama does. It won’t be long before Obama supporters start asking, ‘if he won’t stand up for his own loyal pastor, why should we expect him to stand up for us’.
The problem with Obama supporters (like the hideous Andrea Mitchell…and I say hideous, not in reference to her looks, but to her heart and soul) is that they will see this as a beautiful plea from a wounded Bambi. We, as Hillary supporters, see the desperation, the lies, the elitist attitude from the dirty Chicago politician. Hopefully, those undecideds in Guam, Indiana, N.C., W.V. and all the upcoming states will see what we saw, too. But the Obama supporters wouldn’t change their minds about him if he murdered someone and left his hat, gloves and fingerprints behind (see O.J. Simpson, 1994).
Eventually, of course, this will all be Hillary’s fault.
I think the fun has just started. This tit-for-tat stuff will soon include Jeremiah detailing conversations he’s had with Oblamelessone.
Ummmmm, fresh-toasted waffle!
The question that needs to be asked of obama now is: Where has your judgment been for the past 1.5 years, or 20 years?
You don’t get a win just because you do what chris matthews and those jackasses tell you to do. And finally, why the hell can’t obama say more than three words at a time without going uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh….
If his judgment (or his attention span) was this bad for the last 20 years, what can we expect for the next four?
Obama should have made a clean break with Wright from the beginning, but of course he
couldn’t because people would start coming forward saying BO had been in the pews. Now
he’s making a break, and I think video will emerge or eye witnesses will come forward to prove
Obama was in church when Rev. Wright was making comments similar to those BO is denouncing.
Obama is in a double-bind.
I like what Jerome Armstrong http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/4/28/163729/032 says:
Obama, having successfully kicked the secular warriors that jumped on board his ‘movement’ to the gutter by embracing Fox, probably will follow up by doing some sort of ultra-distancing of Wright– the kind I said he should have done right at the beginning of this whole fiasco. I imagine the “former pastor” becomes the “disavowed former pastor” and maybe even “former church.”
The thing is, Obama is doing this with the conclusion in mind that he’s got it all sewn up. He doesn’t.
I think he is doing this because some internal numbers that he is losing voters fast. That has to be his source of anger since statements like this have been out there for a long time and he had a long time to do what he did today.
Bottomline, is that Obama is spending all his time explaining his bad judgment: Wright, Rezko, and Ayers.
Well, based on that, he’s still got two huge problems looming.
WTF are Coward and the gang thinking?
I look at Barack and hear “I’m Melting!”
Who would have thought a good little girl like you, HILLARY, could destroy my beautiful wickedness?! ARRRRRGH! I’m gone! I’m gone! I’m going!…ARRRRRGH! — YOU CURSED BRAT! LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE! I’m MELTING! Melting! Oh — what a world, what a world!
Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft has a live blog up of the Obama Q&A about Rev. Wright. She adds:
It will be interesting to see what Wright comes back with after Obama’s finished throwing him under the bus.
This is the kind of comment that I am always having to protect Hillary from. People have the conception in my part of North Carolina that all Hillary supporters are unintelligent and inarticulate. The just reiterate whatever someone else says and then say some yeah! cliche line after it. This comes across as being drones. This person needs to learn to speak for themselves or just be quiet. There are arguments for Hillary that don’t depend on rote regurgitation. In sum: don’t be as stupid as this person! She should just Shut the f#@k up!
Blue State Girl?
We’ve had our disagreements, but BSG is very articulate, very intelligent.
Perhaps I’m misreading?
Uncle Wright knows he’s been disrespected. It’s a family feud.
Let’s go to the video tape!
Sharpton is the key here….He and Wright basically accused Barry of suckin up to the CRACKER MAN…..Sharpton gave an out for AA pols to back out.
Hope they do!
Obama just kicked Rev. Wright to the curb for using him to get some face time. I’d be pissed too. Makes no difference, YOU, Hillary and McCain will make it all about Rev. Wright = Obama/Osama blah, blah, blah. Y’all a bunch of Gomers. Tell me, how does Rev. Wright plan on getting these fucking gas prices down.
WE did not force Obama to sit in his church or any of the negative Obama crap WE are constantly being blamed for. The wolf crying is pathetic. Wright is Obama’s albatross not OURS.
I’m not making it all about Wright. Frankly, as objectionable as I find Wright to be, he’s the one of Obama’s associates that frightens me least. Rezko, Ayers, Auchi, the Daley machine — they’re all much more dangerous to the country than Wright and much more indicative of the complete lack of judgment Obama exhibits.
And as for Obama kicking Wright to the curb — he wishes. That old Marine can take Obama, verbally and physically, with one hand tied behind his back and half his mouth taped shut. I’m doubting Obama makes it to the next round.
Well if you had ever bothered to listen to Hillary you would have heard her ideas and SPECIFIC PLANS for bringing gas prices down… SEVERAL weeks ago!!!
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I don’t think we have heard the last from Rev Wright. I bet he comes back and blasts Obama because he lied.
Great an endless pissing contest between too idiots. Popcorn anyone?
I think it’s an exit strategy…Sharpton is in the fray…..
Who gives them the audience?
Sharpton has an easier time getting cameras to come … but the media has obviously goaded Barry into taking a step that he would just as soon not have taken …. so they will not (except maybe Fox) go running when Wright snaps his fingers …
I must respectfully disagree about the media. This is their true area of expertise; not so good on real issues like the economy or foreign policy, but they’ll cover every minute of this like it’s a catfight between Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears. They’ll be on Wright’s next utterance like my dog on a snausage.
I think that Obama is being found out for the user he is. This is what happens when you don’t have an inner moral compass. He’s a grifter.
Wait, my pastor said what? Are you kidding? Well, that is it, I am personally insulted, and it’s not good for my campaign so…I am not talking to him much until after I get drummed out of the election process in the next few weeks.
Obama, Paraphrased:
Well what is Michelle to do with the ICEBERG sized chip on her shoulder now?
This whole thing was staged to make Wright go away and I think that Wright made himself look even nuttier than he really is to get Obama elected. But I will not vote for him PERIOD!
If Americans can form opinions regarding Wright in 4 days, how can we ever believe that Obama never heard those same themes in his sermons?
And Wright has a close affiliation with Farrakhan. And Obama was close to Rezko.
Come on!!
Obama is lying!
His campaign waited until internal polling reflected that this was hurting Obama so he had to lie.
This guy was never properly vetted because the far left activist wanted to prove its strength and effectivness in using the internet to swiftboat any negative press. Ok. You guys proved how influential you are.
But you are doing America a great disservice if you continue to stand by this guy. You picked the wrong one; admit it and get behind Hillary NOW!
Obama is weak!
Obama and Michele are extremist!
He cannot beat McCain!
Super Delegates need to understand that white working class voters, women, older voters and other people NOW understand what a colossal mistake it has been in supporting this joker.
Go Hillary!!
Susan-your comment really gets to the heart of the matter. The left wing guerilla nuts are trying to take control of the party by duping them with Obama, who is merely a tool in their political tactics. It’s doubly sad that minorities-women, blacks, gays and lesbians, are being so devalued and discounted after so many years of working in the Democratic Party in hopes of being heard. Obama is an empty suit, and will be a disaster if elected. Shame on Howard Dean and his crowd for allowing this to happen. And to think that they have thrown over someone of Hillary Clinton’s stature due to pressure from these ill-motivated scoundrels is criminal.
Obama got 20 minutes of uninterrupetd free time on the cable news channels. It will be Obama all day and George’s presser this morning is gone like a fart in the wind.
In reply to albi Hillary has said several times in the last week that the Bush should stop filling the national oil reserves with the price of oil at an all time high and they are 97% full. She also said that some of the oil reserves should be released right now. I agree.
bush’s presser was a fart in the wind. I was unfortunate enough to have to listen to it.
I think these people need to vanish so we can have an election without their ridiculous, incestuous, religious, ultra-left wing escapades. Before long if they both don’t shut the hell up, we are going to have more civil unrest.
No self respecting alien would go within a parsec of Wright.
Boy oh boy! I don’t think he wants a war with Jeremiah Wright! lol I think Hillary must have a fairy-godmother because we are all about to get our wish. If this keeps up, and I suspect it will, Wright, in order to prove Obama WRONG, will be releasing those tapes that we all have to know exist of Obama having a good old time in the sanctuary during one of the sermons that the “Golden Boy” now finds so “appalling”. lmao Boy this is about to get really fun!
Sing it with me, all together now: “The wheels on the bus are coming off, coming off, coming off……..”
“Fairy-godmother” you say! RACIST!!!!!
There are racists in every corner lurking so sayest the wolf criers.
That’s not racist, that’s homophobic.
no?
Barbara Kellerman, from Harvard Business School - This may be too little, too late.
Oh trust, it’s too late. He’s been attending that damn church for 20 years and now all of a sudden he’s “appalled”? lmao What he is is a-phony!
Of course this tit-for-tat between Wright and the baby Jesus could be some form of misguided plan that will totally blow up in their faces. Popcorn anyone?
Yes. I’d like extra butter on mine.
Oh what a dog and pony show!
Of course, Obama didn’t pick my fantasy theory #2 that I posted yesterday where he dropped out.
He picked door #1. And now Rev Wright is under the bus with his ‘typical’ white grandmother and the array of other people that are under there as Obama claws his way to become POTUS.
The minister goes on this high profile interview press tour, culminating at the National Press Club and then on CUE Obama distances himself from Wright.
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Sorry, but I don’t buy it. Too staged. Looks very well planned. Strategic even. What took Wright so long to get mad? If he was just going to diss Obama, that should have happened a couple of weeks ago.
No. This is planned to recusitate Obama’s campaign. Wright waits, how many Primaries before his world wind press tour? They’re still ‘buds.’ Covertly. No one knows someone for 20 years and doesn’t see this side of them. He called him an ‘uncle’ for crying out loud. That implies a degree of intimacy. How many of you call your pastor an uncle?
This is designed to diminish the opinions of people who still dwell on Rev Wright now that Obama has distanced himself. The ball is in your court.
So following the lead of a poster here named PamFlorida on another thread, I will now make up my LONG LIST of reasons why I don’t support Barack Obama that don’t include Rev Wright. Trust me the list grows longer by the miniute.
Mimi, I too thought that this was planned, but I.Don’t.KNOW!!! I’m now thinking that maybe Wright really is pissed. Have you seen that photo of BHO on CNN’s homepage? He looks S-T-R-E-S-S-E-D. Besides, even if he it is all staged, who is really going to buy it? I think even his own supporters are getting disgusted with this “dog and pony show”.
Obama is being SQUEEEEEEEEEZED by Pastor Wright and Rev. Sharpton.
It cannot be pretty….
Do you think they are selling many “historic race speech dvd’s” today?
The growing list non-Wright reasons to oppose Obama is much more persuasive than all this huff-and-puffery. List away, Mimi.
Someone needs to put together a montage of film clips of Obama flip-flopping on his positions towards the Reverend Wright.
Take one clip where Obama refused to distance himself from Wright and another clip from today where Obama throws Wright under the bus.
Larry,
Why did both Obama and Wright make it a point to say he was not his mentor, he was his pastor. Liar!
Maybe we can find this letter dated Feb. 5, 2007 ??!
http://777denny.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/obamas-mentor-racist-reverend-wright-is-back/
“For 20 years, Rev. Wright has been a ‘friend, mentor and pastor.’ This is how Sen. Obama described him in a letter dated February 5, 2007.
**Link**
For 20 years, Rev. Wright has been a “friend, mentor and pastor.” This is how Sen. Obama described him in a letter dated February 5, 2007.
In that letter, the senator wrote “I constantly remember Rev. Wright as the shepherd who guided me to my commitment to Christ one Sunday morning at Trinity. I often consider, as I work in the Senate how he lives his life-a life of service to Trinity, Chicago and the nation; his activism on behalf of causes that few would champion and his dogged commitment to the first principles of love for God and fellow man. And in my personal walk, I seek daily to imitate his faith.”
Barry’s campaign has HUGE issues with keeping all of their fingers in the holes:
This is still up on barakobama.com:
OBAMA IS A PRACTICING CHRISTIAN
Obama Has Been A Member Of Trinity United Church Of Christ For Twenty Years. Monroe Anderson stands up for Reverend Wright’s ministry, “For the past two decades, Barack Obama has been a faithful member of the congregation at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ.” [Chicago Sun-Times, Monroe Anderson, 3/25/07]
Obama Was Baptized And Attends Church Once a Week When He is Able. In the Audacity of Hope, Obama wrote, “I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized.” In 2004, he “attend[ed] 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.” When asked about his decision to be baptized, Obama said “Kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side of Chicago, I felt I heard God’s spirit beckoning me,” he said of his walk down the aisle of the Trinity United Church of Christ. “I submitted myself to his will and dedicated myself to discovering his truth.” [Audacity of Hope, p.208, Chicago Sun Times, 4/5/04; AP 6/28/06]
Here is the video for Larry’s last paragraph
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8_122s82Cco
Obama describes Wright as ‘the guy who counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader.’ “I 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 throughout the country. So please, everybody, give an extraordinary welcome to my pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr.” [Obama remarks, Hampton University, June 2007; video]
Has anyone actually read the full transcript of the NPC event with Wright (a former US Marine and US Navy Corpsman on LBJ’s medical team)? This is so not about Obama but nonsense masking as news generating big ratings for big-business media. I’ve posted here before that I think Obama and Clinton make up one of the two faces (Dems/Reps) of the one party we have here in this country. That we think two political parties makes for competition is nuts. To me, a lot of folks in the establishment-Clinton camp have a lot invested in the old bat: future political appointments await the wealthy backers, subterranean positions in the bureaucracy await the minor-players.
These candidates are playing to that small percentage of America that represents most of the wealth and power of this country. A sort of political disparity is at work here akin to the income disparity that is beginning to split the country.
How ’bout if we look at some issues that matter: economics or maybe Cheney’s recent claim that the US Congress has no authority over him re: torture. Article I seems to indicate otherwise. Or how ’bout that McCain’s wife has all the cash, jets, accounts, etc. Johnny boy is living large off that old bat.
Bring back Brittany Spears!!!
I saw the full video on C-Span of Wright at NPC. He is Obama’s problem because he acts as a character witness for Obama who is touting his judgment as the one thing that makes him different from Clinton and McCain. Obama is not running on issues — he is running on himself without giving us enough information about who he is. We have to rely on everything that tells us about this man who wants to lead one of the most powerful countries in the world. Wright is telling us something about this man, whether you like it or not. Frankly your rant is pointless and lacks the seriousness in giving your vote to the right person. The right person right now is someone who can win against McCain. Obama with all the chinks in his armor looks like the losing candidate right now, and that is scary to many of us.
too cosmic a view. like saying there is only one mafia.
“there’s a rat in the hole, and they won’t let him get away”
That’s from a song called ” Rat in the Hole” by Robbie McIntosh.
I think about it when I read about Wright, and Rezko, and “mafias.”
A great comment from TalkLeft (there sure is a lot of Koolaide over there, but this person apparently likes something a little different).
Andre said: This a really bad move on so many levels. First and foremost, the American people don’t want to be cast as referees between a candidate and his reverend, when they’re looking for someone to work for them. Additionally, this could cost him the NC primary, I mean the Reverend got a standing ovation of 4000 people at the NAACP. As I said in the past, “yea, he’ll make a speech and everything will be fine” only there’s a time not to speak. It just goes to emphasize his total arrogance in that he assumes to ask the American electorate to referee this thing. If anybody has any doubts, he’s toast. His career is finished.”
I left out the part about him still possibly getting the nomination. He won’t after all this ridiculousness.
If he sat there for 20 years and did not know what was going on and also gave $20K plus to a cause that he had not thoroughly investigated, then how does he have the intelligence and judgment to be President? I think it was Newt Gingrich who asked, (and I hate to quote him) “Just how much would pass over his head in the first few months in office?” I think we all know nothing passed over his head. He is just so full of himself that he thinks he can pull off this fiasco and we are all drining the koolaid.
In my mind the worst part of all of this is that the True believers (The Cultists) will swallow Obama’s bullshit statement hook, line and sinker. And I believe that many in the DNC will as well. Not to mention James Bill Clinton is a racist Clyburn and his ilk.
SUSA: Obama only up FIVE POINTS in North Carolina!!:
NEW SUSA poll
If he loses North Carolina — which is possible — this race will be over very shortly.
That’s only the 27th number. Give it a few days….
Gasp! Say it isn’t true! Barry would do or say ANYTHING to win??? But…but…but I thought that’s what he said about Hillary!
Poor Barry. A rock and a hard place. Did you catch his press conference? TIck off the NC blacks and lose. Tick off the blue collar Indiana white hicks and lose. Poor poor Barry. Whatever will he do? I know! Piss them BOTH off. Well done Barry! You are everything I thought you were.
“Barry would do or say ANYTHING to win?”
That’s the problem with his sudden disapproval of
Wright — it comes off as completely political.
Like Sergeant Schultz of Hogan’s Hero’s,
Barry “saw nothing, heard nothing, knew nothing” about his favorite uncle Jerry’s paranoid anti-American rants.
Thank you … I could hear schultzie ….