
THEN: "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community."
NOW: Obama dumps Rev. Wright like a bad habit...
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THEN: "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community."
NOW: Obama dumps Rev. Wright like a bad habit...
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Comments (21)
Gee, that only took 20 year... (Below threshold)1. Posted by marc | April 30, 2008 2:36 AM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Gee, that only took 20 years and one Glory Tour by the despicable reverend wright. (lower case intentional)
1. Posted by marc | April 30, 2008 2:36 AM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 02:36
2. Posted by 1903A3 | April 30, 2008 4:52 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
about time,but to late for damage control.
2. Posted by 1903A3 | April 30, 2008 4:52 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 04:52
3. Posted by WildWillie | April 30, 2008 7:17 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Well what do you know. Obama is the usual politician he claims to not be. ww
3. Posted by WildWillie | April 30, 2008 7:17 AM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 07:17
4. Posted by hermie | April 30, 2008 8:03 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Well, the NAACP, Bill Moyers and the other usual suspects gave Wright forums so they could prop him up and thus prop up Obama.
Now Obama, acting like a typical politician, suddenly realizes that Wright's words; the same ones he heard for 20 years and never objected to, were something he had to 'denounce'. (Is Barry's name really Louis Renault?)
And where does this leave Moyers and the NAACP? Looking like total fools, as usual.
4. Posted by hermie | April 30, 2008 8:03 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 08:03
5. Posted by Clancy | April 30, 2008 8:30 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
This has been soooo much fun to watch - I can't wait for next weeks episode where... (tune in next week to find out!)
5. Posted by Clancy | April 30, 2008 8:30 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 08:30
6. Posted by hermie | April 30, 2008 8:54 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
You mean tune in tomorrow, Clancy.
At the rate Obama and his cohorts are spinning this, the stories (and excuses) are changing on a daily basis.
If it's Wednesday, this must be the day to prop up Wright (or was that denounce him?).
6. Posted by hermie | April 30, 2008 8:54 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 08:54
7. Posted by hcddbz | April 30, 2008 9:05 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
The fun part of being a conservative is that we call it like we see it.
Bush/McCain does something wrong we disagree (Comprehensive Immigration, NC RP) it right we say it. Yet the Uber liberals always need to take direction from their leaders.
Now all weekend Wright been disgusting and we heard fawning praise from the usual suspects. Those of us on the right took him out of context, we do not understand Black Churches,etc
Now that Obama disowned him I wonder how they will cover themselves.
Watching the fur fly has never been so much fun.
So has Obama disowned the black community?
Does this make him an Oreo or Uncle Tom or all the other names that use against Sec. Rice?
Now let see about Bill Ayers and DSA,
7. Posted by hcddbz | April 30, 2008 9:05 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 09:05
8. Posted by epador | April 30, 2008 9:26 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
It's too late 'Bama, it's too late
Though you really did try to ignore it
Somethings he said were fried
You tried to hide but you couldn't fake it.
It's too late.
8. Posted by epador | April 30, 2008 9:26 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 09:26
9. Posted by guido | April 30, 2008 9:51 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Disowning Wright was the only left-brained thing to do at this point.
9. Posted by guido | April 30, 2008 9:51 AM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 09:51
10. Posted by irongrampa | April 30, 2008 10:03 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Stellar example of political expediency.
10. Posted by irongrampa | April 30, 2008 10:03 AM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 10:03
11. Posted by Mike | April 30, 2008 10:15 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
"And where does this leave Moyers and the NAACP? Looking like total fools, as usual."
Heh. Heh.
But we shouldn't be surprised, considering that the NAACP gave Rodney King an Image Award, and made celebrities out of the "Jena Six".
11. Posted by Mike | April 30, 2008 10:15 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 10:15
12. Posted by GWB | April 30, 2008 10:25 AM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Somewhere John Hagee is smiling.
12. Posted by GWB | April 30, 2008 10:25 AM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 10:25
13. Posted by drjohn | April 30, 2008 12:30 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
There is another rock that needs turning over. Wright has stated that there is no disagreement between him and James Cone. Cone has written that whiteness is the source of all evil and that his goal is the destruction of the "white enemy." Cone's books are sold by Obama's church.
I'd love to hear Obama tell me how he knew nothing of this either.
13. Posted by drjohn | April 30, 2008 12:30 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 12:30
14. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | April 30, 2008 12:36 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Obama is good at using people for his political career. He has been using Wright and his church as a stepping stone in Chicago and Illinois politics. Now it is time to throw Wright under the bus for his presidential ambition (just like he threw his grandmother under the bus). Only the heavy Kool-Aid drinkers like Matthew or Sullivan can buy Obama's spin.
14. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | April 30, 2008 12:36 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 12:36
15. Posted by Peter F. | April 30, 2008 12:49 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Regarding OB's disowning of Rev. Wrong, let me state this in rhythmic way (at least for a white guy) so Obama can understand:
"NO, NO, NO, NO, NO....nice try, won't fly!"
15. Posted by Peter F. | April 30, 2008 12:49 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 12:49
16. Posted by LaMedusa | April 30, 2008 1:15 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Aw, and they made such a sweet couple. Too bad he's now been associated with a conspiracy theorist. C'est la vie!
16. Posted by LaMedusa | April 30, 2008 1:15 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on April 30, 2008 13:15
17. Posted by Upset Old Guy | April 30, 2008 3:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
DrJohn
Yes, James Cone hangs out there, but the MSM is very unlikely to turn that rock over - unless pushed, probably even pushed very hard.
I have to say, "You folks are good". I've read and re-read the transcript of yesterday's news conference by The Obamamessiah. I can find The Obamamessiah distancing himself from THE WORDS of Rev. Wright, but I cannot find The Obamamessiah separating himself from (disowning) Rev. Wright.
U.O.G.
17. Posted by Upset Old Guy | April 30, 2008 3:58 PM |
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Posted on April 30, 2008 15:58
18. Posted by Jeff | April 30, 2008 4:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Actually he said their relationship has "changed" ...
18. Posted by Jeff | April 30, 2008 4:06 PM |
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Posted on April 30, 2008 16:06
19. Posted by Mac Lorry | April 30, 2008 6:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
But is it "Change that's real."
19. Posted by Mac Lorry | April 30, 2008 6:01 PM |
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Posted on April 30, 2008 18:01
20. Posted by Upset Old Guy | April 30, 2008 7:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
To state that a relationship has "changed" is to acknowledge that a relationship exists. So what's different? I guess it's just more, "Change we can count on".
20. Posted by Upset Old Guy | April 30, 2008 7:06 PM |
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Posted on April 30, 2008 19:06
21. Posted by Concerned Citizen | May 1, 2008 3:51 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
He chose to be Baptized by the man and to say nothing. He chose to be married by the man and to say nothing. He chose to have the man Baptize his Children and to say nothing. He chose to bring his Wife and his Children to hear the man preach and to say nothing. He chose to name a book after a sentence from one of the man's sermons and to say nothing. He chose to pray privately with the man before he announced his run for the Presidency of the United States and to say nothing. And, he chose to make the man a part of his Presidential Campaign and to say nothing.
Finally, when Conservative Commentators like Rush Limbaugh broke the story in the media, he STILL chose to say nothing.
For more than 20 years, he chose to sit in the man's Church Pews and to listen to the man spew Anti-American hatred; and, to say nothing.
But, when the MAINSTREAM Media -- first ABC News and soon thereafter Fox News, CNN and others -- finally began reporting the man's hate-filled words, one month before the next Presidential Primary, BARACK OBAMA finally stood up, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and, he lectured the American People on race relations.
But, then, once again, Senator Obama chose to say NOTHING. That is, he chose to go back to saying nothing until he lost that Primary, the Pennsylvania Primary; and, until the man, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made three public appearances with three public speeches in the course of just four days with the final public appearance and speech being before the National Press Club in Washington DC; and, with such third public appearance and speech being broadcast by CNN just barely one week before Indiana and North Carolina were set to hold their Primaries. ONLY THEN, did Barack Obama break his resumed silence on the subject of Jeremiah Wright and Wright's statements. And, ONLY THEN, did he (claim to) disavow and disown Jeremiah Wright and Wright's statements.
To my way of thinking, Senator Obama's words and actions are a classic case of too little, too late. And, for at least once, Rev. Wright IS RIGHT about SOMETHING, i.e. in disavowing and disowning Jeremiah Wright and Wright's statements at this very late juncture, Barack Obama is merely speaking as a POLITICIAN: Obama is saying what he's now saying merely as a means to an end. And, in trying to have us believe that Rev. Wright is "not the person that I met 20 years ago" (does he think that Rev. Wright has suddenly come down with Alzheimer's Disease), Barack Obama is merely trying to insure and lock down his bid for the Democratic Nomination for President; or, to borrow a phrase from his opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama is TRYING to "close the deal". And, to that end, Obama is apparently, willing to say and do anything, even, after all of these many years, to throw his longtime Mentor, Minister, and friend, Jeremiah Wright, under the bus by trying to convince the American Public that 'Uncle' Jeremiah is just "not the person that I met 20 years ago".
21. Posted by Concerned Citizen | May 1, 2008 3:51 AM |
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Posted on May 1, 2008 03:51