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Brazile: 'Wright One of the More Moderate Black Preachers'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/16/2008 12:00:42 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

How much trouble is Barack Obama in over the extremism of Jeremiah Wright? Enough that Dem strategist Donna Brazile has been reduced to arguing that as black preachers go, Wright is relatively moderate. Enough that the normally affable Brazile got a bit short with Time editor Mark Halperin, he of the infamous memo to his subordinates during the 2004 presidential campaign while serving as ABC News political director.

The comments came during the panel discussion on today's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC.

View video here.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blackchurch; brazile; donnabrazile; jeremiahwright; manchuriancandidate; markhalperin; nobama; obama; stopobama
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is what Brazile says true? I know it wasn’t always so, living as I did for a time near a black church. We heard the sermon all over the neighborhood, it was quite loud, and I never heard anything approaching what Wright preached on those videos.


141 posted on 03/16/2008 2:41:13 PM PDT by MizSterious (The Republican Party is infected with the RINO-virus)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Good point and it sort of confirms for me why I no longer attend church of any kind.
I have been able to find peace with Our Lord on my own terms and feel that all the superficial accoutrements and political mishmash only gets in the way of finding God’s Grace.


142 posted on 03/16/2008 2:43:38 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: Free ThinkerNY
If that’s true, there is a cancer in the soul of Black America.

It's a tragedy, and it's the Left's fault. The "social justice" crowd has been whispering its paranoid, divisive, anti-American BS in black America's ear for decades, and this is the result.

143 posted on 03/16/2008 2:46:58 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: livius

You would think that would have happened but it didn’t. It just got swept under the rug. It is abuse because children aren’t born racists. They have to be taught.


144 posted on 03/16/2008 3:06:49 PM PDT by CajunConservative (They can either go quietly or they can go loudly but either way they will go. Bobby Jindal)
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To: ncpatriot

I agree!


145 posted on 03/16/2008 3:09:30 PM PDT by CajunConservative (They can either go quietly or they can go loudly but either way they will go. Bobby Jindal)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
If that’s true, there is a cancer in the soul of Black America.

And for the last four decades, the Democrat Party has been selling the snake oil that has been used to 'treat' it, all the while knowing that the patient is getting more dependent on the quack remedy.

That's about to end now. That's why it's vitally important that Hillary be helped to steal the nominiation.

146 posted on 03/16/2008 3:34:04 PM PDT by hunter112 (The 'straight talk express' gets the straight finger express from me.)
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To: SE Mom

Isn’t it amazing?? The white man has been blamed for the ongoing racial tensions since the civil rights movement, and while I do not deny that there are and have been many a white racist, in this day and age I see the divisions are mainly in place because of what black leadership keeps trying to foment with their rhetoric. Blacks want to carry their anger over the past with them into the future and their leaders make sure that they do.


147 posted on 03/16/2008 3:41:05 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Lest anyone forgot, WE ARE AT WAR!!!!! NOW IS NOT THE TIME IN HISTORY TO TEACH THE PARTY A LESSON!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The most incredible (and sad) thing is that many left-wing Dems are mystified by the uproar. Reverend Wright was simply saying what every intelligent person knows is true they are saying to themselves and the people in their bubbles I mean circles. In short the people, leftists, who now run the Dem party are utterly clueless about the patriotism of most Americans.


148 posted on 03/16/2008 3:41:05 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: livius

“Blacks have got to rein in their hatred. They are ruining their children.”

Agreed. One of the worst things you can do to a child is to teach him that things are hopeless. Telling a kid that it’s “a white man’s world” and that he will never succeed because he is black is criminal.

How can a child ever learn to accept personal responsibility if he can always blame it on “whitey”?

I believe this, rather than racism, is one of the biggest reasons for the failure of the black culture to advance in this country.


149 posted on 03/16/2008 3:54:10 PM PDT by EEDUDE
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To: Riverman94610

Exactly....I couldn’t agree with you more, I too, after years of trying to find a church home...found it for myself, at my own home, along with a great deal of peace. I do attend Bible studies at friends homes..all others have their churches they attend, but I’m fine with my relationship with Our Father..


150 posted on 03/16/2008 4:07:32 PM PDT by Molly T. (Not voting for the lesser of two evils, been there, done that...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; All

http://www.abcnews.go.com/politics

Well worth listening to the whole segment- George Will really nailed Obama.

Interestingly, with the exception of Donna Brazille- the whole panel sees this as a big problem for his campaign..


151 posted on 03/16/2008 4:25:12 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Wright is nothing but a black racist, anti-Semitic, anti American bigot who has been the "spiritual guide and mentor" who has been guiding and advising Obama for the last 22 years.

Obamalama is a FRAUD, who's actions speak louder than his pious platitudes. If he was really concerned about forces of division he would have forsaken Wright and his so called "church".

152 posted on 03/16/2008 6:35:23 PM PDT by Jmouse007
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To: detch

Methinks you may be a little premature in your irrational condemnation.


153 posted on 03/16/2008 6:41:09 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Bill Clinton: Life Member of the Liars' Club.)
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To: Molly T.

A big AMEN to you,sister!


154 posted on 03/16/2008 6:57:44 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If this kind of language is going on in most Black churches in the USA, we're in worse trouble than I thought.

155 posted on 03/16/2008 7:14:35 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: SE Mom
Interestingly, with the exception of Donna Brazille- the whole panel sees this as a big problem for his campaign.

I've yet to hear a panel on any of the talk shows not believe this may be fatal. The fact that the Clinton camp in mum is proof enough that the MSM is doing an effective job in making sure all voters are aware. I only wish this came out AFTER he won the nomination.

Frankly I question why Steppie (who I was shocked to learn is part of the Clinton camp) continues to host this show.

156 posted on 03/16/2008 7:23:57 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
When asked, Brazile refused to say who she voted for in the primary. For weeks she held her secret well, until today.

BTW George Will really cleaned their clock when describing what aN America would look like if liberals had their way in running the country -- citing how they've run their nominating process. Can't get a majority because of their ridiculous rules in how to achieve fairness; worked for 20 to 30 years to make us all sensitive to slights real or imagined so that running a 3 a.m. ad offends some who call it racists, some who feel it's fear mongering, etc. in short their reaping what they've sown. BINGO.

157 posted on 03/16/2008 7:34:01 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: SE Mom

BTW thanks for linking the episode which I missed.


158 posted on 03/16/2008 7:35:09 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"this nonsense is not that far from what you’d hear in a mainline Protestant church these days."

Please cite an example of how a "mainlineProtestant church" spouts this nonsense....please. "G-damn America"? Hatred for Blacks?

159 posted on 03/16/2008 7:47:23 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character; Being Coddled Destroys Character)
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To: goodnesswins
It is common place to hear inane and abject confessions of white guilt in ELCA on any given Sunday.

While the Epistle tell us that a sparrow cannot fall from the sky without catching the eye of God, modern liberation ideology holds that U.S. colonial influence killed it.

160 posted on 03/16/2008 7:53:30 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The women got the vote and the Nation got Harding.)
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