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Pastor making life hard for Obama
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/29/8 | Carla Marinucci

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; wright; wrightwingconspiracy
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1 posted on 04/29/2008 7:54:04 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL
This is so great. All anyone has to say is

"Obama can't run a campaign, how can he be expected to run the country".

2 posted on 04/29/2008 7:56:44 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: SmithL

Perfect post for my new tagline...


3 posted on 04/29/2008 7:57:27 AM PDT by NordP ((Rev Wright ) - Hey, Obama... Looks like YOUR "turrr-key" has come hoooome to ROOOOST!)
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To: SmithL

Bull, they have started the good cop bad cop thing.


4 posted on 04/29/2008 7:57:50 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Keep talking, Rev...


5 posted on 04/29/2008 7:58:41 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: SmithL

Photo ops on the basketball court reaches out to Reagan Democrats ?—Ohhkay, Carla.


6 posted on 04/29/2008 7:58:49 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Building Code Under Fire)
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To: SmithL

“fiery” = racist.


7 posted on 04/29/2008 8:00:14 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: SmithL

One word explains this: HILLARY!


8 posted on 04/29/2008 8:00:34 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: SmithL

Well, if you judge a man’s character by the company he keeps, what can people expect?


9 posted on 04/29/2008 8:00:49 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: dalebert
"Bull, they have started the good cop bad cop thing."

Exactly. The whole thing between him and Wright is staged to put the illusion of distance between them.

10 posted on 04/29/2008 8:02:12 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: dalebert

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.


11 posted on 04/29/2008 8:03:01 AM PDT by mrsmel (I have principles too, McCain! And I'm a maverick against your candidacy!)
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To: cake_crumb; dalebert

They sure are fooling Newt!


12 posted on 04/29/2008 8:03:32 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: SmithL

Obama is trying to innoculate himself from scrutiny about his relationship with Wright in the general election by this early bloodletting. JMO.


13 posted on 04/29/2008 8:04:14 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: SmithL
Wright teaches a Black Liberation Theology that was the creation of James Hal Cone, who took the Latin American Liberation Theology that had been created by Marxists to lure poor catholics into their "revolution" (because they knew their totally Godless marxism would not work), and revamped it for blacks in America.

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

14 posted on 04/29/2008 8:05:42 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: SmithL
Wright has put Obama "in a pickle.

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.

15 posted on 04/29/2008 8:06:49 AM PDT by Biblebelter (Barry, your Uncle Jeremiah is speaking now, Barry can you hear him, Barry what you say now.)
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To: SmithL

crisis communications expert Patrick Dorinson....

Wonder how you get a gig like that?


16 posted on 04/29/2008 8:08:49 AM PDT by The Eagle Bomb
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To: SmithL

Obama’s campaign is dead as of Monday morning.


17 posted on 04/29/2008 8:09:16 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Please pass the arugula.)
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To: JZelle

It doesn’t take much to fool Newt these days.


18 posted on 04/29/2008 8:10:26 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: cake_crumb

Life wouldn’t be so hard if OBAMA had sound judgement. He obviously does not.


19 posted on 04/29/2008 8:12:52 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: apocalypto

It’s surprising how many people have not ‘caught on’ yet!

***One word explains this: HILLARY!***


20 posted on 04/29/2008 8:19:53 AM PDT by msnpatriot
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