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Obama's Encounters in the 2002 Congressional Black Caucus Conference (R-Rated)
National Review ^ | May 30 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 05/30/2008 1:59:32 PM PDT by PghBaldy

One of the oddest stories I have come across about Obama, found on page 160 of David Mendell's Obama: From Promise to Power: But what truly struck [Jeremiah] Wright from that [September 2002] meeting was Obama's astonishment over the [Congressional] black caucus event in Washington. It opened Wright's eyes once again to just how innocent and idealistic Obama could be about the world of politics. The conference was nothing like what Obama had envisoned, but it was exactly the way Wright, a former adviser to Chicago's only black mayor, Harold Washington, recalled it.

"He had gone down there to get support and find out who would support him and found it was just a meat market," the pastor said in an interview, breaking into a laugh. "He had people say, 'if you want to count on me, come on to my room. I don't care if you're married. I'm not asking you to leave your wife - just come on.' All the women hitting on him. He was, like, in shock. He's there on a serious agenda, talking about running for the United States Senate. They're talking about giving [him] some [a p-word I'm pretty sure I can't print on NRO, but you get the idea that it is a synonym for cat]. And I was like, 'Barack, c'mon, man. Come on! Name me one significant thing that has come out of black congressional caucus weekend. It's homecoming. It's just a nonstop party, all the booze you want, all the booty you want. That's all it is.' And here he is with this altruistic agenda, trying to get some support. He comes back shattered. I thought to myself, 'Does he have a rude awakening coming his way.'"

Now, let's consider the source... Jeremiah Wright. So perhaps Wright is exaggerating or making up details about Obama's trip. Or perhaps Obama stretched the truth, or made up parts of his account of the trip that he told Wright.

On the other hand, this book probably had to go through lawyers employed by the publisher HarperCollins, and they probably wouldn't want to expose themselves to a libel suit if any Congressional Black Caucus members felt the description offered in the book constituted actual malice, or if printing Wright's version of the tale without any denials could be characterized as "reckless disregard" for the facts.. (There are only so many women who attended that conference whose endorsement Obama would seek


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: blackcaucus; obama; wright
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It's "Reverend" Wright again, and sex... I'm surprised it wasn't that "Obama is a Mack Daddy" Rev...
1 posted on 05/30/2008 1:59:33 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: PghBaldy

Rev. Wright - he acting the PIMP!


2 posted on 05/30/2008 2:05:21 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PghBaldy
There are only so many women who attended that conference whose endorsement Obama would seek

Maxine Waters? AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 posted on 05/30/2008 2:08:12 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: PghBaldy

Ain’t nothing in that entire black caucus I would touch with a ten foot poll, even if it had a condom on it.


4 posted on 05/30/2008 2:10:39 PM PDT by Yankee
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To: Yankee

Maybe he just wasn’t presented with the three L’s.


5 posted on 05/30/2008 2:13:52 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: PghBaldy

Ah, there isn’t anything like a pastor talking about p___y. Just melts the heart.


6 posted on 05/30/2008 2:15:16 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: PghBaldy

7 posted on 05/30/2008 2:15:33 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: PghBaldy

Jeremiah Wright is the gift that just keeps on giving.

Now joined by Father Michael Flaky Pflaeger.

How many more “spiritual mentors” is Barry Hussein going to have to dump off the back of the campaign train before this thing is over?


8 posted on 05/30/2008 2:20:42 PM PDT by Argus (Obama: All turban and no goats.)
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To: PghBaldy

“This altruistic agenda, trying to get some support.”

Maybe make that ‘ambitious agenda’?


9 posted on 05/30/2008 2:20:45 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Miss Didi; AliVeritas; holdonnow

Yikes, ping!


10 posted on 05/30/2008 2:24:09 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

The conference was nothing like what Obama had envisoned, but it was exactly the way Wright, a former adviser to Chicago’s only black mayor, Harold Washington, recalled it.


I hate to nit pick, but Harold Washington was not Chicago’s only black mayor. After Harold Washington died in office, Eugene Sawyer, who was black, was appointed to serve out the remainder of Washington’s term until the next election. At that next election in 1989, Richard M. Daley, the famous Mayor “Boss” Daley’s son, was first elected mayor of Chicago. He has been Chicago’s mayor ever since.


11 posted on 05/30/2008 2:26:21 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SE Mom

Yikes is right!


12 posted on 05/30/2008 2:27:25 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: dead

In commeration of the upcoming election, I’ve changed my tagline.


13 posted on 05/30/2008 2:28:28 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Fight Racism - Vote McCain!)
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To: dead

SOMEHOW I managed not to laugh so loud that my little kids would ask what was funny and come look... SOMEHOW.


14 posted on 05/30/2008 2:28:49 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: PghBaldy

I’m just disgusted all around.


15 posted on 05/30/2008 2:55:40 PM PDT by Clock King (Under revision...)
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To: PghBaldy

Don’t give me that babe in the woods routine Bambi.


16 posted on 05/30/2008 2:56:41 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: PghBaldy

Well....it appears the Reverend Wright has confirmed my long held opinion on the character of the Congressional Black Caucus....

Money, power, position — simply can’t trump the ghetto DNA, can it?


17 posted on 05/30/2008 2:56:57 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: PghBaldy

I’m begining to sense the strategy of the “black leadership” figures..

They are INTENTIONALL trying torpedo Obama’s chances..
They WANT him to lose...
They WANT the riots and racial wars to commence...

That all plays into their REAL agenda of causing maximum chaos and distraction in the U.S.....

In THAT direction lies their interest and power.
With Obama in the “White House” ....how can they claim the “white man” is still evil and holding them back???

They couldn’t!
However - Obama in the White House would prove how stupid the electorate has become — thus placing the nation in unacceptable danger.

Either way — interesting times are ahead.


18 posted on 05/30/2008 3:01:49 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: dead

ROFL....that is GREAT!


19 posted on 05/30/2008 3:05:52 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Liberals learning curves are pretty flat,)
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To: PghBaldy

oh, my.


20 posted on 05/30/2008 3:12:54 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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