Rev. Wright: If you're elected, Obama, I'M COMING AFTER YOU...

[no name 1]

No, God Bless JW for all his good work during this election Its time for people to stop drinkin the kool aid.

The bloom is off the Obama flower that is for sure.

The crazy thing, tho, is that JW is a total moron. Instead of keeping his yap shut and not causing problems for O, he does the opposite. A black President would be a great thing to see how far we've come as a nation....and instead of working hard to help him realize that goal, this guy is chuntering on about how racist America is.

Jeez, imagine how MLK would feel to know that in such little time from all his work, a black man would be a serious contender for President. It's truly a remarkable thing to see how much progress we've made as a country.

Self fulfilling prophecy, anyone?

and somehow, that's HC's fault. See post 68 & 69.

She's been swinging the axe heavily in what now seems to become nothing short of a slaugtherfest of a pastor. She can't sit there, fan the flames best she knows how to, pour all the oil on it that she has and then deny any responsibility for the fire that burns. Ms. Clinton, of course, always wants to have it both ways - she's kind of special that way. Of course, that is what earned her the most untrustworthy rating of any of the three candidates still out there.

Unless she has her hand up JW's backside and has learned ventriloquism, then the onus for this catastrophe doesn't lie with Hillary. She has every right to fan these flames...after all, it's pretty sensational news for what is the biggest election in our country. If she is bothered by what she hears, she has every right to point things out without being called the 'ringleader'.

Hillary cannot duck responsibility for actively using Wright's snippets against the Obama campaign and for doing all she can to keep the issue alive in hopes for nothing but personal gain. If she wants to do that, then she'll be called on it. And it doesn't help that she now calls for McCain to do more to stop NC's Republicans from using the material against other Democrats in that state. She's speaking out of both sides of her mouth yet again. That's all I am saying.

I know y'all Republicans are tight like that with Hillary these days - and vice versa.

When? He made his own press appearances, his own junket, not her. She wouldn't even talk about it yesterday, even tho McCain & Obama did. But the truth hurts, right?

The truth is that Hillary has milked that cow for the best of them and will continue to do so as long as there's a drop to be had. She's comfortable only when mud is flying. That's the truth.

Yet there is no proof she did anything, is there? She doesn't talk about it yet you keep saying she has. #######?

[no name 1]

Very interesting article - if the O supporters can swallow it...

The Pastor Casts a Shadow

By BOB HERBERT

Published: April 29, 2008

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright went to Washington on Monday not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him.

Smiling, cracking corny jokes, mugging it up for the big-time news media — this reverend is never going away. He’s found himself a national platform, and he’s loving it.

It’s a twofer. Feeling dissed by Senator Obama, Mr. Wright gets revenge on his former follower while bathed in a spotlight brighter than any he could ever have imagined. He’s living a narcissist’s dream. At long last, his 15 minutes have arrived.

So there he was lecturing an audience at the National Press Club about everything from the black slave experience to the differences in sentencing for possession of crack and powdered cocaine.

All but swooning over the wonderfulness of himself, the reverend acts like he is the first person to come up with the idea that blacks too often get the short end of the stick in America, that the malignant influences of slavery and the long dark night of racial discrimination are still being felt today, that in many ways this is a profoundly inequitable society.

This is hardly new ground. The question that cries out for an answer from Mr. Wright is why — if he is so passionately committed to liberating and empowering blacks — does he seem so insistent on wrecking the campaign of the only African-American ever to have had a legitimate shot at the presidency.

On Sunday night, in an appearance before the Detroit N.A.A.C.P., Mr. Wright mocked the regional dialects of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. I’m not sure how he felt that was helpful in his supposed quest to bring about a constructive discussion about race and reconciliation in the U.S.

What he is succeeding in doing is diminishing the stature of Senator Obama. A candidate who stands haplessly by as his former spiritual guide roams the country dropping one divisive bomb after another is in very little danger of being seen by most voters as the next J.F.K. or L.B.J.

The thing to keep in mind about Rev. Wright is that he is a smart fellow. He’s been a very savvy operator, politically and otherwise, for decades. He has built a thriving, politically connected congregation on the South Side of Chicago that has done some very good work over the years. Powerful people have turned to him for guidance and advice.

So it’s not like he’s naïve politically. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Forget the gibberish about responding to attacks on the black church. That is not what the reverend’s appearance before the press club was about. He was responding to what he perceives as an attack on him.

This whole story is about Senator Obama’s run for the White House and absolutely nothing else. Barack Obama went to Rev. Wright’s church as a young man and was blessed with the Christian bona fides that would be absolutely essential for a high-profile political career.

Faster than anyone could have imagined, the young Mr. Obama became Senator Obama and then the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Then came the videotaped sermons and the roof caved in on Rev. Wright’s reputation. Senator Obama had no choice but to distance himself, and he did it as gently as he felt he could.

My guess is that Mr. Wright felt he’d been thrown under a bus by an ungrateful congregant who had benefited mightily from his association with the church and who should have rallied to his former pastor’s defense. What we’re witnessing now is Rev. Wright’s “I’ll show you!” tour.

For Senator Obama, the re-emergence of Rev. Wright has been devastating. The senator has been trying desperately to bolster his standing with skeptical and even hostile white working-class voters. When the story line of the campaign shifts almost entirely to the race-in-your-face antics of someone like Mr. Wright, Mr. Obama’s chances can only suffer.

Beyond that, the apparent helplessness of the Obama campaign in the face of the Wright onslaught contributes to the growing perception of the candidate as weak, as someone who is unwilling or unable to fight aggressively on his own behalf.

Hillary Clinton is taunting Mr. Obama about his unwillingness to participate in another debate. Rev. Wright is roaming the country with the press corps in tow, happily promoting the one issue Mr. Obama had tried to avoid: race.

Mr. Obama seems more and more like someone buffeted by events, rather than in charge of them. Very little has changed in the superdelegate count, but a number of those delegates have expressed concern in private over Mr. Obama’s inability to do better among white working-class voters and Catholics.

Rev. Wright is absolutely the wrong medicine for those concerns.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/opinion/...amp;oref=slogin

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Obama to hold 'big press conference' on Wright

Posted: 01:40 PM ET

(CNN) — Barack Obama will hold a press conference Tuesday on Rev. Jeremiah Wright's most recent comments, the Illinois senator said.

Responding to supporter's comments in defense of his former pastor, Obama said would hold a "big press conference" during which he would address the issue.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...ence-on-wright/