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Wright's All Wrong for Obama
Primetime Politics ^ | April 29, 2008 | George Will, Jonah Goldberg, Byron York

Posted on 04/29/2008 4:45:46 AM PDT by moderatewolverine

Because John McCain and other legislators worry that they are easily corrupted, there are legal limits to the monetary contributions that anyone can make to political candidates. There are, however, no limits to the rhetorical contributions that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright can make to McCain’s campaign.

Because Wright is a gift determined to keep on giving, this question arises: Can persons opposed to Barack Obama’s candidacy justly make use of Wright’s invariably interesting interventions in the campaign? The answer is: Certainly, because Wright’s paranoias tell us something—exactly what remains to be explored—about his 20-year parishioner.

In yesterday’s speech at the National Press Club, Wright repeated—decorously, by his standards, but clearly—his accusation, made the Sunday after Sept. 11, that America got what it deserved. His answer yesterday to a question about that accusation was: “Whatsoever you sow, that you also shall reap” and “you cannot do terrorism on other people and expect them never to come back on you.”

As evidence that “our government is capable of doing anything,” he strongly hinted that he has intellectually respectable corroboration—he mentioned several publications—for his original charge that the U.S. government is guilty of “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.” But yesterday he insisted that he is not anti-American: It is, he said, Americans’ government, not the American public, that is a genocidal perpetrator of terrorism. So, he now denies that America has a representative government—that it represents the public. He believes that elections constantly and mysteriously—and against the public’s will—produce a genocidal, terroristic government.

(Excerpt) Read more at primetimepolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; obama; reverend; wright
I fear this will bring Obama down too quickly, and then we'll have to fight Hillary head on for the rest of the summer.

Did anyone else feel like they were in the twilight zone watching this crap yesterday?

1 posted on 04/29/2008 4:45:46 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
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To: moderatewolverine

Obama’s positions are direct reflections of Rev Wright’s themes. Obama wants to ban US nuclear weapons because Wright has taught him our atom bombing of Japan was evil. Obama wants to talk to our worst enemies, and this is because Wright constantly complains we demonize those countries. Obama’s economic views have a marxist base, also reflecting Wright. Likewise Obama’s wrong headed view of conservative white America.


2 posted on 04/29/2008 4:55:11 AM PDT by Williams
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To: moderatewolverine
Did anyone else feel like they were in the twilight zone watching this crap yesterday?

Well...I pretty much feel that way all the time. I work with intelligent and educated (things that are not necessarily synonymous, by the way) people who tell me with a straight face that 9/11 was "an inside job" and who nearly have to be restrained to prevent them from hauling out all their "evidence."

As for the Wright thing, I awoke Monday AM to Curtis Sliwa playing clips of his revival meeting at the NAACP. I'm still racking my brain trying to remember a rap song that is written in 6/8 meter.

I guess I'm at the stage where I have to take this stuff a thimble-full at a time.

It's your basic, garden variety mass-delusion (well, actually it's a gaggle of them) on steroids. And crack. It'll pass, but God only knows what will be left standing in its wake.

3 posted on 04/29/2008 4:57:53 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("resort not to force until every just law be defied")
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To: moderatewolverine

“Can persons opposed to Barack Obama’s candidacy justly make use of Wright’s invariably interesting interventions in the campaign? The answer is: Certainly, because Wright’s paranoias tell us something—exactly what remains to be explored—about his 20-year parishioner.”

Absolutely and they should! Libs want to mix politics and religion when it’s ‘favorable’ to them. Well, the time has come whether it’s favorable or not and Wright is determined to stay in the spotlight as much as Obama is determined not to outright reject him.

Wright’s continued appearance should be enough warning that a Hussein presidency will be what brings this country crashing into irrelevancy and insurmountable debt not to mention probable Muslim rule beginning internally with the Nation of Islam.


4 posted on 04/29/2008 5:00:32 AM PDT by whatshotandwhatsnot
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“...probable Muslim rule beginning internally with the Nation of Islam.”

Can you imagine a Secret Service in an Obama Presidency:

All white agents are demoted or fired, & replaced with Farrakhan goons. Investigations of counterfeiting is in the hands of Farrakhan himself! Past presidents protected by some of the very people they need protection from!

Ayers as Attorney General, & Dorn as head of the FBI?

5 posted on 04/29/2008 6:09:18 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: moderatewolverine
"Because John McCain and other legislators worry that they are easily corrupted, there are legal limits to the monetary contributions that anyone can make to political candidates. There are, however, no limits to the rhetorical contributions that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright can make to McCain’s campaign.

"Because Wright is a gift determined to keep on giving, this question arises: Can persons opposed to Barack Obama’s candidacy justly make use of Wright’s invariably interesting interventions in the campaign? The answer is: Certainly, because Wright’s paranoias tell us something—exactly what remains to be explored—about his 20-year parishioner."

"With each new hate rant by Wright and the silence of Obama on the topic of Reverend Wright, Barack Obama seems to confirm his own moral obliviousness. Worse yet, he seems to have disdain for those who are troubled by his own unwillingness, to break with Wright.

On his new campaign plane, Obama said he has spoken with Wright in recent days and disputed any suggestion that he or his campaign have asked him to stay out of the limelight.

"I have talked to him," he said. "I haven't asked him to do anything."

Walter Williams: "For the nation and for black people, the first black president should be the caliber of a Jackie Robinson and Barack Obama is not. Barack Obama has charisma and charm but in terms of character, values and understanding, he is no Jackie Robinson. By now, many Americans have heard the racist and anti-American tirades of Obama's minister and spiritual counselor. There's no way that Obama could have been a 20-year member of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church and not been aware of his statements."

Thomas Sowell: "It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious. Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time—and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it."

Hussein Obama’s racist pseudo minister has turned the Dems' run for President into party's train wreck!

Devastatingly, Shelby Steele writes: “Obama has fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own (white) mother."

Just What Did Obama Know About Wright's Past Sermons? (Plenty)

“Barack Obama either agreed with what was preached from the Trinity pulpit, or he tuned it out and stayed around pretending to for political reasons. To say he stayed for 20 years but doesn't agree with Wright's preaching is incredible denial. It'd be like a man buying White Sox season tickets for 20 years, attending the games, and saying he's not a fan.”

Obama’s supporters want us to ignore this story… just push it under the rug. While they’ll align Republicans with any obscure pastor who does or says something controversial, they’re trying to convince us that Obama’s 20-year long close relationship with Wright, including his effective endorsement of him, his church and rhetoric with a $22,500 donation in 2006 is irrelevant.

“When Obama decided against wearing an American flag pin, we may all have been a bit too quick to accept his rationale, too quick to find that issue unimportant. Now, that American flag pin has gotten a lot bigger for a lot of us, especially in light of what may have been and may still be Obama’s deeper, and, perhaps, secret, less than patriotic beliefs about America.”

“Wright says that blacks can’t be expected to sing God Bless America because of racism. Obama doesn’t salute the flag during the National Anthem. That sure strikes me as an amazing coincidence since Obama swears he never heard Wright say anything against America.”

Here is the link to the Star Spangled Banner video with obama standing there without his hand over his heart...

Notice her ear ring!

The picture, which appeared on a U.S. Web site, showed the Illinois senator donning a Muslim elder's headdress and robes during a 2006 trip to Wajir in northeastern Kenya. Ahmed Sheikh Bahalow, a retired teacher and elder from ethnically (read Muslim) Somali Wajir, said his community was offended by the insinuation Obama had done anything wrong on his visit. "The Somali community and in particular those living in Kenya have never been that interested in America politics," Bahalow told Reuters in the central town of Isiolo. "But we are following it keenly now because we have been provoked." Wajir residents planned to demonstrate in the town after Friday prayers to show their support for Obama, he said. Those aren't Episcopalians praying on Friday.

"Hussein Obama’s big mouth, small brain, condescending, America-hating, grandkid-baby-terminating, born-alive-infant-abandoning, America-hating-wife, kooky-moonbat-America-hating-pastor, racially-divisive, race-baiting, crotch-saluting, America-flag-disrespecting ... chickens ... coming home to roost ...!"


6 posted on 04/29/2008 6:11:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein ObamaSamma's Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11")
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To: Mister Da

I truly believe Barry Hussein is the most dangerous man in the world at this moment.


7 posted on 04/29/2008 8:53:20 AM PDT by whatshotandwhatsnot
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