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Bayh Warns That GOP May 'Swift Boat' Obama Over His Former Pastor
Washington Post ^ | April 30, 2008 | Dan Balz

Posted on 04/30/2008 2:54:52 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) today praised Sen. Barack Obama for denouncing his former pastor, but warned that Republicans will use the association to try to "Swift Boat" the Illinois senator if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee this fall.

Bayh, who is supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, said he hoped other issues -- the economy, gasoline prices, health care and the cost of college -- will drive the decisions of most voters in Tuesday's Indiana primary. Obama has struggled in other states to win the votes of white, working class voters, and they could be the deciding vote next Tuesday.

Noting that even Obama has called the controversy of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright "a legitimate issue," Bayh said that in a presidential race, those voters will take more than the economy into their decision making before the primary.

"You're running for president and people want to get a sense of who you are, and when you're new to the public stage you're a little more susceptible to having the canvas painted in by your political opponents," Bayh said during an interview for the video program "PostTalk" on washingtonpost.com.

Bayh said neither he nor Clinton intended to inject the Wright controversy into the primary, but he is worried that Republicans will do so in a general election. "I'm sure the far right will be out there trying to do the whole Swift Boat thing and that sort of thing. But I hope people will focus on the most substantive issues and I think the vast majority of them will.

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KEYWORDS: 2008; bayh; in2008; issues; obama; swiftboat; wright
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Swift Boat (swĭft bōt). verb. Swift Boat·ed, Swift Boat·ing.

To reveal the truth about a lying democrRat politician.

1 posted on 04/30/2008 2:54:52 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
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Bayh Warns That GOP May 'Swift Boat' Obama Over His Former Pastor

Why shouldn't the truth be told?

2 posted on 04/30/2008 2:59:19 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
ahh - someone needs to tell the senator that obamama and the Rev Wrong have swiftboated themselves.
3 posted on 04/30/2008 3:01:04 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Typical Gun-Toting, Jesus-Loving Gramma)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

They do love their cliches don’t they.


4 posted on 04/30/2008 3:01:58 PM PDT by VR-21
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5 posted on 04/30/2008 3:02:28 PM PDT by montag813
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To: SteamShovel

Looks like the Rev is doing an excellent job of sinking Obama....no need to swiftboat(dig up the facts and tell the truth) here.


6 posted on 04/30/2008 3:02:41 PM PDT by cornbreadmuffin
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Bayh is right because the story is completely true. That is "swiftboating" in a nutshell.

Doubly appropriate because it involves an anti American dem, just like the original swiftboating.

7 posted on 04/30/2008 3:03:21 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Hey, Evan, you burned out twinkle light, the Swift Boating began a month ago. And your fellow Dims have been more than happy to help pilot the ship.


8 posted on 04/30/2008 3:05:33 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Paul Krugman: Conscience Of A Crapweasel. (For lack of a better tagline at the moment.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
No need for us to anything. His own pastor, Wright himself, is carrying that water for us...hehehe.

A source close to the Wright ministry is also talking. Here's what that source said in the New York Post today:

The source noted that the roots of Wright's disillusionment with Obama began last year after the Illinois senator unexpectedly yanked him from participating in the public announcement of his presidential campaign.

"That's why Jeremiah revealed . . . that he had actually been at the [announcement] hotel and prayed privately with the Obama family before the official declaration," the source told The Post.

"Rev. Wright, as well as other senior members of his church, believe that Obama has betrayed over 20 years of their supposed friendship."

Obama further angered Wright by trying to distance himself from the pastor ever since videos were made public earlier this year of the preacher alleging that America brought 9/11 upon itself and that people should say "God damn America," not "God bless America."

The source added, "After 20 years of loving Barack like he is one of their own, after he was embraced by this congregation as a brother in Christ, after his pastor was a father figure to him and gave him credibility in a city he had not grown up in and in a black community that was suspect of someone from Hawaii and Harvard, he thanks him by not allowing him to speak publicly at his announcement last year?

"A lot of people in the church believe they were there for this man when no one else was, and a lot of people don't believe it any more when Obama claims he loves the man who did so much for him," the source added.
Whole lot of chickens...coming home to roost.

Not the least of which is Obama's character (because Wright is saying that Obama did know about exactly who Wright was and therfore Obama lied to us all)...and also Obama's judgement in this whole matter and in the matter of Ayers, Rezko, etc.

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

9 posted on 04/30/2008 3:06:32 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: SteamShovel

The best spent political contribution that I have made in my entire life was the $100 I sent to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. I only wish that I had sent every dime that I have ever contributed to Republican candidates to the swifties instead.


10 posted on 04/30/2008 3:08:56 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ("I believe in Santa Claus. I believe in the tooth fairy." - John Edwards)
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Not just Wright, but Ayers and Rezko too. It won’t be a Swift “Boat”, Bayh, there will be an entire Swift “Armada”.


11 posted on 04/30/2008 3:08:58 PM PDT by Califelephant
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Noting that even Obama has called the controversy of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright "a legitimate issue," Bayh said that in a presidential race, those voters will take more than the economy into their decision making before the primary.

It looks like Senator B. (whose middle name must NEVER be spoken) is doing a fine job of "Swiftboating" himself!!!

12 posted on 04/30/2008 3:09:59 PM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE--a euphemism for further dividing our country along racial, social and economic lines)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Obama is being speechwrighted.


13 posted on 04/30/2008 3:10:11 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Obama is being speechwrighted.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

What a great and powerful force the Swiftees were and are. To have that much control over democraps is amazing.


14 posted on 04/30/2008 3:16:08 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

He says that like he thinks that’s a bad thing.


15 posted on 04/30/2008 3:19:12 PM PDT by SmithL (Reject Obama's Half-Vast Wright-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: Califelephant
Not just Wright, but Ayers and Rezko too. It won’t be a Swift “Boat”, Bayh, there will be an entire Swift “Armada”.

LOL!!!!!!! Someone get a pic of a bunch of ships ASAP!!!!!! HAHAHAH!
16 posted on 04/30/2008 3:21:52 PM PDT by cmsgop (I can't believe my wife downloaded "Philadelphia Freedom"on my iPod........)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Hey, Bubba, you nailed that definition, but Bayh is trying to warn the superdelegates....*electibility*...


17 posted on 04/30/2008 3:26:52 PM PDT by Baladas (M)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Bayh is a little slow isn’t he?


18 posted on 04/30/2008 3:28:18 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Bayh is hard core pro-Hillary. This is a subliminal “Obama can’t be elected” message.


19 posted on 04/30/2008 3:28:32 PM PDT by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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But Wright doesn’t want Obama elected. He would rake it in more if McCain is elected.


20 posted on 04/30/2008 3:31:10 PM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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