"I will get out of this...I have a secret hacksaw."
Posted on 04/29/2008 10:25:21 AM PDT by kingattax
Pressure Mounts on Obama After Reverend's Reappearance --
It's crunch time on the campaign trail, and candidates can't afford any mistakes or for any controversial friends to suddenly reappear. Will the Rev. Jeremiah Wright drag the Illinois senator's campaign down?
Some speculate the re-emergence of Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is turning off white voters. Democratic sources tell ABC News that Wright is unquestionably worrying superdelegates about Obama's electability.
On Monday at the National Press Club, Wright was defiant, embracing some of the most controversial items he has said.
"Jesus said, You cannot do terrorism on other people and not expect it to come back on you," Wright said, defending his controversial sermon in which he said Sept. 11, 2001, was an example of chickens coming home to roost, in Malcolm X's memorable phrase. "Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright 'bombastic' principles."
On "Good Morning America" today, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested the controversial former pastor may be deliberately trying to hurt the Illinois senator.
Saying that Wright "went out of his way to weaken Obama" during Monday's address at the National Press Club, Gingrich told Barbara Walters, "I think Rev. Wright has a greater interest in his self-importance."
Gingrich described Wright as "hard-line anti-American," and said "if Rev. Wright continues to talk that the burden that Sen. Obama carries becomes bigger and bigger. "
Republicans in Mississippi and North Carolina have cut TV ads using Wright against Democrats who have endorsed Obama, guilty by association with a different association.
In an interview with WTVD-TV in North Carolina, Monday, Obama said, "I think the average North Carolinian's gonna say that doesn't make much sense. And, you know, I think it's the old kind of politics."
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Riots and violence is not the way to win elections. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Not true - and the seated delegates, likely Obama-majority - still have to approve anything from the credentials
The only thing that could be considered dumb is to respond to your idiotic non-reply to what I said...your tirade had nothing to do with what my point was.
I know you weren’t addressing me, but I’ll tell you how I think she can win...Obama becomes so bloodied that internal Dem polls show he has become unelectable. They call him in...they make him an offer he can’t refuse...become the VP..the Cheney kind of VP...promise him a hands on position. Tell him that way white america will get used to seeing a black man in the White House. Hell, tell him he won’t even have to be in the same room as Hillary if he doesn’t want to. He’s a young man...in 8 years he’ll be more experienced and he’ll be a shoo-in. If that happened, combined with leaders jumping his ship onto the SS Hillary, he might have no choice. Remember, we’re talking about the CLINTONS.
All of this would be a non-issue if he were already the candidate. If Republicans had not given her those few extra percentage points in PA and helped her in the previous primaries, we wouldn’t be talking about this right now.
"I will get out of this...I have a secret hacksaw."
The terrorism quote is in chapter 17 of Mark.
I agree. I remember late 92/early 93, between Slick's election and his inauguration, Rush talking about how some members of the media were anticipating with glee all of the bad stories that they could run on Clinton, now that he had won the election, and they could do so without helping George Bush. Frankly, at the time I was skeptical that there was a whole lot more out there (hey, it was before I was on the Internet), and thought Rush was whistling past the graveyard.
Wright is far too good a story to bury forever, and the media would have brought him out, but not until after McCain's concession speech.
I beg the good revrund to show me the Bokk, Chapter, and verse.
Sometimes comedians can hit on truths better than political commentators. Dave Chappelle hit upon this truth a few years ago:
There will never be a black Vice-President before there is a black President. You know within a few hours of being Vice-President he will be taking the oath of office for President. Any brother who single-handedly puts a black guy into the Oval Office will be a hero in whatever prison he ends up.
I doubt the Democrat party thinks there will be riots and violence.
LOL! Well then, there’s the silver lining!
But she can’t steal it on her own, and I don’t think there are enough Clinton devotees who care more about her than the party.
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