Posted on 04/02/2008 5:59:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
ABC has made it official: use the Rev. Wright against Obama at your peril. Be prepared to be accused of "raising the race issue" to hit "below the belt."
ABC's David Wright, a certified Obama fan/Hillary critic based on this past performance, issued his edict on today's Good Morning America.
Riffing off Hillary having compared herself to Rocky Balboa running all the way up those steps in the first movie, Wright first fairly pointed the irony of the analogy: Rocky wound up losing the fight. Wright, pushing the boxing metaphor, then landed his haymaker:
DAVID WRIGHT: In its approach to superdelegates, the Clinton campaign may be close to hitting below the belt. Clinton's top delegate hunter Harold Ickes told an interviewer he's raising the race issue with superdelegates, arguing that Obama's controversial former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, makes him unelectable.
View video here.
And did everyone hear on Rush yesterday where the Rev. Wright is moving?
That is one of the great “do as I say, not as I do” moments.
Why is this not the case here? The NObama/Wright association is to glaring to ignore, and needs to be used to the maximum.
It's politics, the art of dirty tricks.
Uh, that would make it 'right in the breadbasket' or, in other words, right on target.
Which is why they prefer to play up his lack of bowling prowess...
“Not sure that it’s hypocrisy so much as it is the standard leftist tactic of “sniping from cover” “
I think that it is both.
Yes, you only have to listen to “urban radio” in any large city to hear the same garbage that Wright rants.
Seriously, not just Wright’s comments, but the SUPPORT that those comments got kind of blindsided me.
I see our country bending over backwards, forwards, and sideways to “address the race issue.” I also see first generation immigrants “of color” “making it” beyond what many (non-of color) Americans attain. I also see gov’t enforced preferences and gov’t enforced “guilt” placed on the majority.
Then we get this crap - this anti-American, grievance mongering CRAP, and I’m sick of it.
Cut ‘em off.
Live up to the standards of our country. No preferences, no victim status, no special coddling. You mess up, you don’t behave according to community standards - you’ll be treated like everyone else that does the same, no “race sensitivity” exceptions.
It’s a street fight - better to hit below the belt than to be stabbed in the back...that being said, I manifestly deny that bringing up someone’s voluntary associations, associations that have shaped him and his family, through marriage and baptism, over a 20 year period, is in any way illegitimate.
No I did not hear where the “Reverend” Wright is moving. Where?
Repub 527’s will use video of Reverend Wright ruthlessly this Fall if Obama is the dem nominee, not the McCain campaign. I support that because it shows the truth that Obama wants to hide from.
Obama needs a swift kick in the bawrs, as Kim Jong Ill would say.
Nothing like the truth to move the campaign along.
The facts, my dear Watson, the FACTS!
And Hillery has finally figured out that she should have been using them 5 months ago.
They are available for all to see:
All that needs to be done is to get tapes or transcripts of every one of his sermons and post them here.
To a nearly all white, gated community in suburban Chicago. The place has a golf course, too.
The cost: 1-point-six-million-dollars. Who paid?
His church.
Speaking as a “garlic nose,” I find this rather stupendously hypocritical.
Just wow! That family tree is a forest. I’m saving this thread.
Just wow! That family tree is a forest. I’m saving this thread.
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