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The Rev. Wright Connection Still Haunts Obama
Townhall.com ^ | 5/24/08 | Michael Barone

Posted on 05/24/2008 1:06:49 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

As Barack Obama makes his slow but steady way toward the Democratic nomination, the assumption in the admiring precincts of the press corps is that voters have dismissed as irrelevant his longtime association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But that may prove as mistaken as the assumption, back in 1988, that voters would not be impressed by Michael Dukakis's 11-year support of a law granting weekend furloughs to convicts sentenced to life without parole, an issue brought up in the primaries by Al Gore but largely ignored in press coverage at the time.

Evidence for this comes in the exit polls from the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries on May 13 and 20. In both, about half the voters -- and these are voters in the Democratic primary -- said that they believe Obama shares Wright's views either somewhat or a lot. And slightly under 50 percent of these voters said that Obama is honest and trustworthy.

To be sure, these were primaries in which Obama was beaten, and beaten badly, by Hillary Clinton -- 67 percent to 26 percent in West Virginia, 66 percent to 30 percent in Kentucky. So they would be inclined, one might believe, to think ill of Obama. Yet it is not universally the case that voters who choose one candidate in a hotly contested election doubt whether the other candidate is honest. You can oppose someone who you believe to be trustworthy. Only 38 percent of Americans voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and George McGovern in 1972. But probably a higher percentage believed that they were basically honest.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008; barone; obama; wright

1 posted on 05/24/2008 1:06:49 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2

“TELL IT , Mikey , tell it!”


2 posted on 05/24/2008 1:19:10 AM PDT by Dad yer funny (FoxNews is morphing , and not for the better ,... internal struggle? Its hard to watch)
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To: JohnHuang2

To steal the tag line of another Freeper — Obama: In Your Heart You Know He’s Wright


3 posted on 05/24/2008 2:14:54 AM PDT by Gothmog (I fight for Xev)
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To: JohnHuang2

I’m waiting for the 527 ads this fall showing Wright ranting away in Supreme Court robe. Judgment? ;-)


4 posted on 05/24/2008 3:21:37 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: JohnHuang2
Most reporters are liberals, whose circles of friends and acquaintances have included people with views not dissimilar to those of Wright or William Ayers, the unrepentant Weather Underground bomber with whom Obama served on a nonprofit board and at whose house his state Senate candidacy was launched. Such reporters don't find these views utterly repugnant or particularly noteworthy.

Excellent point. In many cases, though, the social circles of most media types do not include anyone with a viewpoint clearly contrary to Wright or Ayers.

It's also obvious that Obama himself has never really associated with anyone who could be described as "conservative," and as a consequence, keeps tripping all over himself trying to relate to a middle America which for him is a foreign country with strange, unenlightened beliefs that he can never understand or respect.

5 posted on 05/24/2008 3:48:05 AM PDT by browardchad ("We are all mavericks now." -- Rush Limbaugh)
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To: JohnHuang2

As it should.

This is the single most offensive indiviudal to arrive on the national scene in quite some time. The FACT that he has been a close advisor of the FAMILY that would want the American public to vote them (and yes, her too) needs to brought up and thought about by those voters EVERY SINGLE DAY. His ‘philosophy’ IS hate speech, nothing more.


6 posted on 05/24/2008 3:58:02 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: JohnHuang2
I like Michael Barone. The problem I have with this analysis, is that in a contest between Obama and Clinton, how do you pick the one who is honest and trustworthy?
7 posted on 05/24/2008 5:46:28 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is like drinking water to offset rising ocean levels)
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To: norwaypinesavage
I like Michael Barone. The problem I have with this analysis, is that in a contest between Obama and McCain, how do you pick the one who is honest and trustworthy?
8 posted on 05/24/2008 6:04:54 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (I'm just a typical bitter, white, heteronormative space worm clinging to guns and God.)
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To: Jabba the Nutt
McCain has a lot of faults. Lack of honesty and trustworthiness are not among them.
9 posted on 05/24/2008 6:30:43 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is like drinking water to offset rising ocean levels)
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To: JohnHuang2
Obama's excuses:
Didn't know about Ayers because he was only 8 years old when Ayers did his bombings.

Didn't know about Wright because he missed the offensive sermons over a 20 year period of time.

And people think he's not truthful? /s
10 posted on 05/24/2008 9:12:53 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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To: norwaypinesavage
You're correct, only if you define honesty and trustworthiness in the way McCain would define McCain as a conservative.

McCain came out and said Comprehensive Immigration Reform would be a top priority of a McCain Administration. For 9 months, McCain has been telling us, he heard the American People: "secure the borders first".

Please explain, how McCain has been honest and trustworthy with his intentions on illegal immigration?

11 posted on 05/24/2008 11:23:35 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (I'm just a typical bitter, white, heteronormative space worm clinging to guns and God.)
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To: JohnHuang2

BTTT!


12 posted on 05/24/2008 11:56:38 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: neverdem
Reverend Wright should haunt Obama for the rest of his life.

'Context,' You Say? A guide to the radical theology of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright By Stanley Kurtz

The black intellectual's goal, says Cone, is to "aid in the destruction of America as he knows it." Such destruction requires both black anger and white guilt. The black-power theologian's goal is to tell the story of American oppression so powerfully and precisely that white men will "tremble, curse, and go mad, because they will be drenched with the filth of their evil." In the preface to his 1970 book, A Black Theology of Liberation, Wright wrote: "There will be no peace in America until whites begin to hate their whiteness, asking from the depths of their being: 'How can we become black?'"

13 posted on 05/24/2008 12:01:25 PM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Agreed.


14 posted on 05/24/2008 12:04:20 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Eva

Obama and Wright are two sick bastards.


15 posted on 05/24/2008 12:06:20 PM PDT by 1035rep
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