Posted on 04/29/2008 7:51:27 AM PDT by SmithL
After his substantial nine-point loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania earlier this month, Barack Obama appeared to be on track and getting his mojo back with just days until the crucial May 6 primaries in Indiana and North Carolina.
Obama found new venues (Fox News Sunday), started a new drive to reach out to Reagan Democrats (photo ops on the basketball court) and found a new focus on the economy.
But all that was submerged in quicksand when Jeremiah Wright, the fiery pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, appeared again to show what a damaging and uncontrolled distraction he can be.
Just as Americans were beginning to forget his "God damn America" video clip, the Chicago minister delivered two more unapologetic and high-profile addresses in 48 hours, defiantly suggesting recent criticism was not aimed at him - but at African American churches.
Wright's new controversial sound bites included defending anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as "one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century" and apparently mocking President John F. Kennedy.
Obama, talking about jobs and the economy in Indiana, was forced to detour and respond.
"I have said before ... that some of the comments offend me, and I understand why they have offended the American people," the Illinois senator said. "He does not speak for me. He does not speak for the campaign."
Sacramento GOP strategist and crisis communications expert Patrick Dorinson said Wright has put Obama "in a pickle. Wright has laid out a new marker ... saying that to be against him is to be against a powerful institution of the African American church. He's made the church the shield, and that's made it doubly hard for Obama."
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"Obama can't run a campaign, how can he be expected to run the country".
Perfect post for my new tagline...
Bull, they have started the good cop bad cop thing.
Keep talking, Rev...
Photo ops on the basketball court reaches out to Reagan Democrats ?—Ohhkay, Carla.
“fiery” = racist.
One word explains this: HILLARY!
Well, if you judge a man’s character by the company he keeps, what can people expect?
Exactly. The whole thing between him and Wright is staged to put the illusion of distance between them.
That’s what I’m thinking. This way, he can show black voters that he’s not pandering to white voters, while from the other side of his mouth he says “But it’s not me saying that”. I notice that he never specifically disavows what Wright says, specific comments. he just says “I don’t agree with everything he says”. What specifically does he agree with? That the US government invented HIV? That blacks and whites have different brains? The wish for God to d*mn America? I wish someone out there had the balls to ask him.
They sure are fooling Newt!
Obama is trying to innoculate himself from scrutiny about his relationship with Wright in the general election by this early bloodletting. JMO.
This theology teaches that Christ was an oppressed black man living under whitey rule (the Romans) who was as much or more of a social revolutionary against white oppression as he was about spiritual salvation. In this sense, the theology is much closer to what the Islamics teach about Christ than what true Christians teach about Him.
It is a hate-filled, bigoted, anti-American, race bating, marxist construct. And this is the trough from which Barack Hussein Obama has fed and the well from which he has drunk deeply for the past 20+ years.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
Whatever one make think of the career of Barry Obama, Jeremiah Wright helped establish Barry with a political base which propelled his career. If the truth be known Uncle Jeremiah and Geraldine Ferraro share the same assessment of Barry and that is, he did little to earn the position he finds himself in. Whatever pickle Barry is in, Barry got into himself.
crisis communications expert Patrick Dorinson....
Wonder how you get a gig like that?
Obama’s campaign is dead as of Monday morning.
It doesn’t take much to fool Newt these days.
Life wouldn’t be so hard if OBAMA had sound judgement. He obviously does not.
It’s surprising how many people have not ‘caught on’ yet!
***One word explains this: HILLARY!***
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