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When it suits his all-consuming political ambitions, at the time …

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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Comment by NewHampster | 2008-04-29 10:51:24

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.

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-29 11:09:14

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.

Comment by blobert | 2008-04-29 13:04:23

Andrea Mitchell just showed an attack mailer little Obambi is sending out. Baby fawn hides serpant’s tongue.

Comment by blobert | 2008-04-29 13:11:15

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.

 
 
 

Comment by Bud White | 2008-04-29 11:12:29

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.

Comment by Reverend Wrong | 2008-04-29 11:14:38

Axelrod got arrogant after the win and did not realize he would be way out of his league against Hillary.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-04-29 11:39:31

Axelrove as well as many others understimated Sen. Clinton….

 
 

Comment by Nancy H. Armstrong | 2008-04-29 12:02:10

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.

 
 

Comment by Percy | 2008-04-29 11:16:52

Exactly why the Obama camp needed a quick ride to the white house, a quick primary….to keep his sparkling armor.

 

Comment by susan | 2008-04-29 15:18:39

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!!!

Comment by lauren | 2008-04-30 00:14:59

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.

 
 
 

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-04-29 10:53:03

Brilliant Susan…..Keep up the good work….

Comment by SusanUnPC | 2008-04-29 12:46:33

Thank you! It surely helps to have such rich, rich manure to feed the soil.

 
 

Comment by Mr.Murder | 2008-04-29 10:53:06

Plausible deniability, from the pews of bias, at the Church of Contempt.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-04-29 11:10:04

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…..

 
 

Comment by Reverend Wrong | 2008-04-29 10:55:49

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.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-04-29 11:01:40

I don’t think BABY-O even rates TRICKY DICK status….

 
 

Comment by Karen | 2008-04-29 11:01:41

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.

 

Comment by Mary Jo Kopechne | 2008-04-29 11:05:32

Bob Herbert, who’s been a strong supporter of Obama, states it so clearly in today’s NYT:

This whole story is about Senator Obama’s run for the White House and absolutely nothing else. Barack Obama went to Rev. Wright’s church as a young man and was blessed with the Christian bona fides that would be absolutely essential for a high-profile political career.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/opinion/29herbert.html?hp

I smell toast.

Comment by Nag | 2008-04-29 11:15:37

I hope it’s wry toast, that’s my favorite. ;)

 

Comment by kenoshaMarge | 2008-04-29 11:22:07

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?

Comment by PMS | 2008-04-29 12:26:50

Whoa, some turnabout! Herbert has been shilling for Obama relentlessly for months.

He still is. Obama’s a helpless victim in Herbert’s eyes… trapped between the twin jaws of Hillary and Jeremiah.

Comment by kenoshaMarge | 2008-04-29 13:08:14

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.

Comment by rjj | 2008-04-29 13:14:19

But it does reinforce the Republicans’ Democrat stereotype. This is enough to give Limbaugh a woody without a Viagra assist.

 
 
 

Comment by beebop | 2008-04-29 12:59:57

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.

 
 
 

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-29 11:06:21

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)

 

Comment by Kefa | 2008-04-29 11:15:10

ot……..SUSA NC Clinton down only by 5 points.

http://www.talkleft.com/

NC will be hers as will be Indiana.

:)

Comment by Percy | 2008-04-29 11:19:17

From your lips to God’s ears.

or maybe… from God’s lips to yours!

woo hooo

RISE HILLARY RISE

 

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-29 11:19:33

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)

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 13:04:25

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,,,,,,,,

Comment by jwrjr | 2008-04-29 13:41:16

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.

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 14:19:22

r u sure

i must be confused with indiana then ,,,,

 
 
 
 

Comment by SusanUnPC | 2008-04-29 11:22:09

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.

 

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-04-29 11:34:13

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.

 
 

Comment by bmc | 2008-04-29 11:17:31

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.”

According to the New York Times, aides to Sen. Barack Obama say they “were no longer as hopeful as they once were” that the Democratic presidential race “could be resolved before June 3, the day of the last primaries. As a result, they were girding for six weeks of attacks by Mrs. Clinton and potential election defeats that could raise further questions among superdelegates — the elected Democrats and party leaders who will ultimately determine the nominee — about Mr. Obama’s strength as a general election candidate.”

Problematic: “In interviews with several associates and aides, Mr. Obama was described as bored with the campaign against Mrs. Clinton and eager to move into the general election against Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28obama.html?hp

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-29 11:26:11

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

 

Comment by fooj | 2008-04-29 11:59:44

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.

Comment by Andy | 2008-04-29 13:50:21

Agreed fooj!! You said it exactly right.

 
 

Comment by apishapa | 2008-04-29 13:56:47

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.

 

Comment by may not have to leave party | 2008-04-30 00:41:03

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.

 
 

Comment by Nag | 2008-04-29 11:17:59

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.

 

Comment by jd | 2008-04-29 11:20:29

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?

Comment by kenoshaMarge | 2008-04-29 11:28:19

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.

 
 

Comment by Mr.Murder | 2008-04-29 11:20:37

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

Comment by rjj | 2008-04-29 13:20:10

Do we really need to change … [the US] by making it more like Chicago?

This is a great line. It needs prinking, tho.

 
 

Comment by Dora Ratquila | 2008-04-29 11:29:52

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.

 

Comment by Percy | 2008-04-29 11:30:04

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.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-04-29 11:37:15

Percy….are you describing the sunny weather in GAZA…

 
 

Comment by Pagan Power | 2008-04-29 11:39:35

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.

Comment by Reverend Wrong | 2008-04-29 11:44:15

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.

 

Comment by Andy | 2008-04-29 13:57:32

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.

 
 

Comment by scott | 2008-04-29 11:46:16

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.

 

Comment by deke | 2008-04-29 11:47:31

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.

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-29 12:53:35

Would Ayers have been the middle man between Obama, and Rezko?

 

Comment by Mr.Murder | 2008-04-29 14:47:15

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.

Comment by beebop | 2008-04-29 15:03:59

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.

 
 
 

Comment by Marsha | 2008-04-29 11:53:43

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!

 

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-29 11:57:16

Exactly Who would do or say anything to be elected again?

 

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 12:04:44

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

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-29 12:16:11

:-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)

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-29 12:48:33

I don’t even pay attention, anymore, they’re so predictable.

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-29 12:50:45

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…

 
 
 
 

Comment by GA Moderate | 2008-04-29 12:05:41

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.

 

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 12:06:51

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.

Comment by Jeff | 2008-04-29 13:10:53

“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.

Comment by Steve | 2008-04-29 13:12:41

 

Comment by Andy | 2008-04-29 14:01:58

Jeff:

Steve is right; your comment should be addressed to Sharpton.

 

Comment by Janis | 2008-04-29 21:21:45

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.

 
 

Comment by deelee | 2008-04-29 13:50:46

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.

Comment by Jeff | 2008-04-29 14:01:31

“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”.

 
 
 

Comment by emilyR | 2008-04-29 12:13:05

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.)

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-29 12:18:00

Hahahaha! What a picture in my mind.

 

Comment by emilyR | 2008-04-29 12:19:41

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…

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 12:23:50

DID U SMOKE THAT PIPE WITH BARRY TODAY??

or u running on kool-aid..

i mean ,,,,,,,,,WTF?

Comment by emilyR | 2008-04-29 12:51:48

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.

 
 

Comment by emilyR | 2008-04-29 13:02:03

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).

 
 
 

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 12:18:12

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

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-29 12:23:03

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

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 12:24:55

WTF?
U TROLL

U LOW ON KOOL-AID?

U FRIENDS WITH WRIGHT?

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-29 12:28:10

who u callin a troll??

I’m a DEMOCRAT that doesn’t like Larry Kudlow.

WTF is your problem?

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 12:30:44

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 ,,,,??

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-29 12:32:22

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.

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 12:36:38

OKAY

KOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL

 
 

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-29 12:38:21

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.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-04-29 13:04:56

Yes…Sen. Hillary Clinton once again displays Adult Behavior

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Comment by sonia | 2008-04-29 12:22:05

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,,,,,,

Boycott CNN Sponsors

——————————————————————————–

I just emailed the following to investorrelations@marriott.com. I will be sending email to Bayer, Direct Buy, and others shortly.

Dear Sir/Madame:

As an American consumer who values integrity in media coverage, I regret to inform you that I will not be staying at a Marriott hotel in future because they are advertised on CNN. This network’s bias toward a single Presidential candidate is obvious and prevalent. Those in charge have failed to listen to countless complaints by concerned consumers. I would reconsider my position once the following criteria are consistently met by CNN:

All three of the candidates are featured on election issue related stories.

Snide comments about candidates’ trustworthiness and personality cease.

All three candidates are given equal coverage in terms of air time and neutrality.

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,

 

Comment by typical.white.person | 2008-04-29 12:24:48

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. Wr