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GMA: Raising Rev. Wright 'Close to Hitting Under the Belt'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidwright; haroldickes; hillaryclinton; jeremiahwright
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To: MrB

maybe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz5_Bq7azdI


21 posted on 04/02/2008 6:32:36 AM PDT by petercooper (Sure, Americans don't want Muslims running a couple U.S. ports, but they're fine with a Muslim Prez.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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.


22 posted on 04/02/2008 6:35:17 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The federal government uses a lot of associations to determine whether a security clearance should be granted to an individual.

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.

23 posted on 04/02/2008 6:38:39 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Remember, no matter how bad your life is, someone is watching and enjoying your suffering.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
'Close to Hitting Under the Belt'

Uh, that would make it 'right in the breadbasket' or, in other words, right on target.

24 posted on 04/02/2008 6:39:02 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Which is why they prefer to play up his lack of bowling prowess...


25 posted on 04/02/2008 6:40:01 AM PDT by johnny7
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To: MrB

“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.


26 posted on 04/02/2008 6:46:44 AM PDT by detective
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To: MrB

Yes, you only have to listen to “urban radio” in any large city to hear the same garbage that Wright rants.


27 posted on 04/02/2008 6:47:02 AM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: Malesherbes

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.


28 posted on 04/02/2008 6:56:16 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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.


29 posted on 04/02/2008 6:57:42 AM PDT by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the "No Child/Left/Behind" Party)
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To: RexBeach

No I did not hear where the “Reverend” Wright is moving. Where?


30 posted on 04/02/2008 7:10:49 AM PDT by truebluetexan
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To: Lee'sGhost

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.


31 posted on 04/02/2008 7:11:32 AM PDT by moose2004
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Hitting below the belt?

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:

The Obama Files

32 posted on 04/02/2008 7:21:14 AM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

All that needs to be done is to get tapes or transcripts of every one of his sermons and post them here.


33 posted on 04/02/2008 8:11:31 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: truebluetexan

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.


34 posted on 04/02/2008 8:20:25 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Candor7

Just wow! That family tree is a forest. I’m saving this thread.


35 posted on 04/02/2008 11:15:53 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: Candor7

Just wow! That family tree is a forest. I’m saving this thread.


36 posted on 04/02/2008 11:28:16 AM PDT by Slip18
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