Posted on 05/01/2008 5:33:30 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Would it have been any better for Barack Obama to have said people "rely" on bigotry rather than "cling" to it? I don't think so, but apparently he does . . .
This morning's "Today" aired an extended clip from an interview Meredith Vieira recently conducted of Barack and Michelle Obama. The full interview will be shown Saturday on MSNBC. While I didn't detect any blockbuster moments, there were a few notable nuggets.
On the issue of why he didn't distance himself from Rev. Wright sooner, Obama says: "When those first snippets came out, I thought it was important to give him the benefit of the doubt." That would suggest Obama actually had some doubt as to where Rev. Wright stood. Is that credible, after 20 years in the angry pastor's pews?
Then there was this exchange about Bitter-gate.
View the entire "Today" excerpt here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Ping to Today show list.
Mark- the page is coming up empty..
Okay, people, the fork is in Obama, lets focus on Hilary now. She’s getting away again.
He sees bigotry and hate and racism everywhere he looks. I wonder where he got that idea from?....................
increasingly showing himself to be unprepared to be President. The move to shove all primaries to the beginning of Jan/Feb is going to really hurt the Dem party this year because they are going to be stuck with a stinker in the general election. In a normal year, he would not have been able to rack up so many early wins before Americans had a chance to learn who he is. Once Dems learned more about him, he is obviously not a good candidate for them, but it is too late.
Just a bunch of Parsing, Pasting and Prevaricating.
We ALL know what you “meant”, sir. You SAID what you meant. After all, “Words have Meaning”.
For anyone with more than a couple brain cells to rub together it is way past too late for you to repair the “damage”.
We know whut ya mean. Our primaries were "decided" by the threat of unlimited network bias waaaaay back when.
We feel their pain, (bite bottom lip) man.
McCain's Vice Presidential choice is very important. He/she will face Hillary in 2012--assuming Hillary doesn't figure out how to wrest the nomination from Obama before this November.
Hillary has already improved her act. Her interview with O'Reilly was successful. And she will have four years of acting class to fine tune it.
McCain's Vice President must be well chosen to take her on and must spend the next four years preparing for it. Hillary will know who the heir/heiress apparent is and will have ample time for a massive arms build-up.
Limbaugh may have made a big blunder. He's battered Obama, but that was not necessary. Obama never had a chance of getting elected. If Limbaugh had stayed out of it, the Democrats would have eliminated Hillary, and the Republicans would have watched Obama eliminated himself. Thanks to Rush, Hillary has remained viable. She's doing better than ever and better than she would ever have done if the Democrats had dispatched her months ago. Limbaugh has merely increased her viability as a candidate in 2012, made it possible for her to get her act together, and increased her chances of snatching the nomination away from Obama this year.
If Hillary wins big in Indiana and North Carolina and figures out how to seat the Florida and Michigan delegates, she might be able to persuade the Super Deligates to give her the nomination and make Obama her heir apparent and to appease Obama supporters enough to make them listen to reason, especially if Obama, who is still young, is promised the Presidency in the future.
Rush Limbaugh has been playing with fire.
There’s a problem with that page, Mark. It comes up mostly empty.
Hmm. Sorry about that.
HERE IS A WORKING LINK TO THE ORIGINAL NEWSBUSTERS ARTICLE:
It's too late. They are stuck with Obama.
We really need to make sure that MI and FL delegates are not seated, the inexorable math of delegate selection must be respected, and the Dem Convention must push Hillary aside. She has no business in the race and she needs to get out.
It's just beautiful.
Not yet, supposedly there is a cabal of House Super Delegates that are ready to throw in with Obamao, our goal is to keep this going as long as possible to drain funds and split the Democrat Party, so if Hilde keeps it close, the whole thing is in doubt.
Republicans are in bad shape for this November though, real real bad shape.
“if”
Hillary has Bill as an albatross, and Barack Hussein Obama has both Reverend Wright and Michele Obama!
I agree with you. Barack and Michelle would/will be beautiful to expose to the country. Just look at a couple of gems from that interview: Barack has been accused of being elitist because he’s AA and his name is BO? (That explanation was in response to 46% of voters saying they don’t share his values, so he is now insinuating half of the country is racist.) BO has already made all of us so much better and changed us so much just through his campaign? (Michelle is the wife who just keeps on giving!)
I always thought BO and HC were an interesting comparison because they were both followers of Saul Alinsky, but had gravitated to such revealingly different tenets of the SA strategy. BO sought to organize by first bringing everyone together, and only then siccing them on a single enemy, such as in his big race speech. HC on the other hand instead focused on the intense demonization a single visible enemy, such as absolutely everything being Evil Bush’s fault.
Yet, through the campaign HC is the one developing the (however artificial) common touch, while BO is appearing more distant, less real and less genuine all the time. The one who has changed for the better through BO’s 15-month campaign is HC the campaigner, and however true blue-red her Marxism, she is now a formidable candidate in her own right.
Your laconism is worthy of Sparta. I hope it refers to Hillary’s chances of success.
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.Whole lot of chickens...coming home to roost.
"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.
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
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