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Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy (Joe Ricketts)
The New York Times ^ | Thursday, May 17, 2012 | Jim Rutenberg

Posted on 05/17/2012 10:13:58 AM PDT by kristinn

Joe Ricketts, the billionaire behind the proposal to do ads reviving President Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, has released a statement disavowing the politics it represents, through Brian Baker, president of his “super Pac,” the Ending Spending Action Fund. The statement asserts that the proposal was merely that.

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"...Mr. Ricketts intends to work hard to help elect a President this fall who shares his commitment to economic responsibility, but his efforts are and will continue to be focused entirely on questions of fiscal policy, not attacks that seek to divide us socially or culturally.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: breaking; jeremiahwright; joericketts; obama

1 posted on 05/17/2012 10:14:06 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

OK : )


2 posted on 05/17/2012 10:26:19 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: kristinn
Hehehe...no worries, Hannity is doing it for him, and so is Wright. Watch Hannity tonight as he aires portions of the three hour interview Wright recently held with and investigative reporter...all on tape and Wright knew it.

He says on the tape that he has the physical evidence of Obama's campaign trying to bribe him to keep silent.

He says as Obama's Pastors he tried to make it easy for Obama to attend his church and not give up his ISlamic inclinations and upbringing. When asked by the interviewer if Obama actually converted to Christ, Wroight said, "I cant't say that he did."

This stuff is going to come out and Romney is going to watch it happen while himself continuing going after the Kenyan Marxist, Obama, on hsi many, many errors running the country.

3 posted on 05/17/2012 10:28:18 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: kristinn

The sad state of the world politics is that someone who tries to run for office with morality and integrity will almost always lose.


4 posted on 05/17/2012 10:28:42 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: kristinn

Like Juan McCain, Willard probably (through the back channels) nixed it. Lessons learned from 2008? none.


5 posted on 05/17/2012 10:29:39 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: kristinn

False flag to keep Romugabe safe from the cries of “Racist!” that will come?


6 posted on 05/17/2012 10:32:15 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: kristinn
No problem, Mr. Ricketts. If not you, someone else will do it.

You just know the DEM's are quaking over all the baggage that Obama has. This time around there will be plenty of folks willing to pay for super PAC ads to tell the truth about Obama and do the job McCain was unwilling to do.

7 posted on 05/17/2012 10:34:41 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Sow the wind...reap the whirlwind!)
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To: philetus

Tru Dat.

I’m trying to think of the last time a politician (any politician) had any semblance of morality and integrity as they ran for office.

~sigh~


8 posted on 05/17/2012 10:35:24 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: kristinn

It doesn’t matter. The moment has passed. The time to expose Obama’s anti-Americanism was four years ago, and Juan put a stop to that.

Obama’s record as president is enough to sink him. The economy is stuck in the mud and Obama is adding mud.


9 posted on 05/17/2012 10:36:35 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; kristinn; Nachum
Flashback: Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’

10 posted on 05/17/2012 10:42:33 AM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I agree that the time for targeting the Wright/Obama connection was 2008, not now. But now is the time to highlight the so-called mainstream media’s coverup of Wright’s sermons and the current coverup of Obama’s role in offering Wright a bribe to stay out of the limelight. This is not something the Romney campaign has to do. It should be the alternative media raising these issues.

If somebody in the media or the White House thinks Wright is lying on tape about the bribe attempt, let them say so, and prove it.


11 posted on 05/17/2012 11:04:42 AM PDT by Argus
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To: onyx

WE need the gun this time!


12 posted on 05/17/2012 11:10:26 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Jeff Head; kristinn; NoRedTape; All
...Obama's Pastors he tried to make it easy for Obama to attend his church and not give up his ISlamic inclinations and upbringing. When asked by the interviewer if Obama actually converted to Christ, Wroight said, "I cant't say that he did."

Well, only took 9 days for you to do an abrupt shift re: commenting upon the religiosity of POTUS candidates, eh, Jeff?

May 8, 2012, to NoRedTape: Do you really have to make this thread an anti-LDS thing? ...As to religion, if you must make it about that... Source: Santorum endorses one-time rival Romney

No religious hypocrisy being practiced here, eh, Jeff?

Tis OK to make threads an anti-religion "thing" re: Obama's religion, but not Romney, eh?

13 posted on 05/17/2012 11:47:07 AM PDT by Colofornian (Mom when I grow up, I want 2B like Ike. Mom when I grow up, I want 2B a god from Kolob like Mitt.)
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To: Jeff Head

If we had everything everyone has claimed to have on Obama, he would not be prez today.

From the Donald’s “I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re finding.” regarding the Hawaii BC, to Larry Sinclair to the Rev.

People lie. Stop telling me what you have and just bring it.

I’m sorry to say, but I assume someone has nothing if they they tell me what they have but they are waiting “for the right time” to share.


14 posted on 05/17/2012 12:00:02 PM PDT by dmz
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