Posted on 03/15/2008 3:13:20 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
What should have been a good week for Barack Obama has turned into one of the worst of his campaign.
Despite winning the Mississippi primary and increasing his lead in convention delegates, he was thrown off stride by dealings with a former fundraiser and inflammatory remarks by his one-time pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that are getting wide play on YouTube and TV including "Not God Bless America. God Damn America."
Obama worked hard Friday night on cable television news programs, trying to distance himself from Wright's remarks. On Fox he called them "completely unacceptable and inexcusable."
Today, campaigning in Plainfield, Ind., he said Wright never made incendiary statements in his presence.
"But if all I knew was those statements that I saw on television, I would be shocked," he said.
ABC News political consultant Mark Halperin, also of Time Magazine, said Obama had to go on the offensive, considering how hard his campaign was hit by the negative coverage.
"It was possible that this controversy was going to engulf Obama's candidacy," Halperin said. "He had to speak out after what had been several days of very toxic and very dangerous coverage for his candidacy." Obama also acknowledged in Chicago newspaper interviews that indicted businessman Tony Rezko raised more money for his past political campaigns than was previously known. Rezko had also advised him on buying a home.
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I have heard the “no hand on heart during anthem” claim disputed. After checking further, the response is weak.
I’ll give it to you.
I’m glad that you didn’t add the “sworn in on Koran” nor “is a Muslim” to the list.
So, you get a 100%.
The picture(and video) in question in Iowa clearly shows Obama not placing his hand over his heart.
The defense has been that there are other pics out there from other times where he does. I think given his rhetoric, his wife's rhetoric, and the rhetoric from those he hangs around from Hugo Chavez, to former Weather Underground bombers Ayers and Dorhn, and his now famous black nationalist racist-race baiting preacher of twenty years that it's understandable for reasonable folks to assume that in Iowa at that phot op that Barack Hussein Obama actually did not place his hand over his heart during the playing of the national anthem.
and like I said, that's just for starters. he makes McGovern look like Jesse Helms
I wouldn’t put Cosby in there with Black conservatives like Jesse Peterson. Cosby’s vitriol against Black conservatives like Ward Connerly, Jesse L. Peterson, and others is muted, but quite real.
Since I don’t judge people on the basis of things like skin color, you are right.
He is a terrible liar both because he hasn’t had the many years of practicing it the Clintons have, and because he gets caught in his own web of lies too often.
I lie prostrate corrected.
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