[SJackson]

Obama's World-Part I one of a 3-part series exploring Obama’s dubious allies in Chicago

Obama's World, Part II--Barack Obama’s dubious allies in Chicago’s South Side

[albie]

Man, what a bummer. A president that hates me because I’m white.

[Malesherbes]

Following the results in North Carolina, a gleeful CNN newshen announced that “40 percent of Whites voted for Obama.” Of course, another way of saying this is that “60 percent of Whites rejected Obama.” That 40 percent, however, bothers me. They were conned by a cool con man. It is certainly a possibility that we will wake up to find that B.O. has infected the White House.

[hellbender]

The election of Obama would be the culmination of the most diabolically dishonest propaganda scam ever put over by a major party. The man is little better than an American Robert Mugabe, and will bring unprecedented disaster on the country.

[kitkat]

BUMP

[Enchante]

"Certainly Obama has found it expedient to invoke his relationship with Rev. Wright and Trinity when it might be politically advantageous. Addressing black leaders in Selma, Alabama, in March 2007, Obama made a point of mentioning that he had received “a letter from a friend of some of yours named Reverend Otis Moss Jr. in Cleveland, and his son, Otis Moss III is the Pastor at my church and I must send greetings from Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr…But I got but I got a letter giving me encouragement and saying how proud he was that I had announced and encouraging me to stay true to my ideals and my values and not to be fearful.” The message was clear enough: Obama’s values were the values of his pastors, and, by extension, those of the black community in Selma."

"Similarly, it was only last fall that the Obama campaign told the New York Times that the relationship between the candidate and his pastor was “closer than ever.” Last month, Obama said that Wright was “like family to me,” an accurate enough description of the man who had married Obama and his wife, and who had baptized his two daughters. Even when Wright became a political wedge, Obama insisted that he “could no more disown him that I could my white grandmother.” Only now that Wright fatally threatens his campaign for the Democratic nomination has Obama decided, unconvincingly, that Wright is “not the person I had come to know over 20 years.”"