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2008-04-29 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2008-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Maybe obama knows disavowing Wright would cost him too many votes, which means he knows something about a portion of his "base" that everyone else maybe better wise up to...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-04-29 00:08|| 2008-04-29 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama: Judge my words, not Wright's

How about we judge you by your actions. And your inactions?

Posted by gorb 2008-04-29 01:03|| 2008-04-29 01:03|| Front Page Top

#3 We are judging you by your actions - by your 20+ years of sitting at Wright's knee absorbing everything he said while nodding your head in agreement.

Not by your sudden about face in recent weeks when his views started to embarass you.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-04-29 01:10|| 2008-04-29 01:10|| Front Page Top

#4 ok - in college i deliberately surrounded myself w/the alienated, marxists, punk rockers....

so, why would we want to elect someone who's alienated from America?

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-04-29 01:34|| 2008-04-29 01:34|| Front Page Top

#5 So why don't you tell the man to shut the hell up?

First, I don't think he listens, and second, I'm beginning to believe that he's not real impressed by Barry.

Posted by KBK 2008-04-29 01:49|| 2008-04-29 01:49|| Front Page Top

#6 For 20 years he was "Uncle" Wright. For the past couple of months he became an "Uncle" who was off base.

I beleive I will expect the "long term respect" you had for this false prophet whose alter you worshiped at again be your "spiritual" advisor if you were in the Oval Office (God forbid).

Posted by www 2008-04-29 01:58|| 2008-04-29 01:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama has written and talks about the "audacity of hope." Unfortunately for him, we have talk about it in terms of Rev Wright, because Obama took it from his devisive mentor.

It's "REPARATIONS," stupid.

Posted by McZoid 2008-04-29 02:50|| 2008-04-29 02:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Smart move Sheila Jackson Lee...standing by your girl and all! Sorry for doubting your wisdom.

Posted by smn 2008-04-29 03:31|| 2008-04-29 03:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Is it New York Life, whose motto is something like 'judge by the company we keep'?

Posted by Bobby 2008-04-29 06:06|| 2008-04-29 06:06|| Front Page Top

#10 How did she do that Ft. Marcey Park thing?

Posted by B. Hussein Obama 2008-04-29 08:18|| 2008-04-29 08:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Obama: Judge my words, not Wright's

I have. That's your problem.

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-29 08:57|| 2008-04-29 08:57|| Front Page Top

#12 BO and Wright are going to set race relations back in this country sixty years. Non-black people who don't have much exposure to blacks have been conditioned enough by the MSM to be prone to accepting all the left's claims of anti-black racism. After watching these two racists, along with the usual suspects Jessie and Sharpie, that conditioning will be overcome. There will be a lot of non-blacks who will quietly, but definitively, write lib blacks off as the worst type of non-black hating race-baiters. And they'll be justified in doing so.

Obama's debacle has made one thing almost certain: if there is ever to be a black President, he'll be a Republican.

Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-04-29 09:10|| 2008-04-29 09:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Bears repeating: "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community." - guess who?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-29 09:33|| 2008-04-29 09:33|| Front Page Top

#14 A lot of people do judge Obama by his words.

His words about Wright were obviously so mealy mouthed that Wright felt empowered to spew.

Mission Accomplished.

Posted by mhw 2008-04-29 09:35|| 2008-04-29 09:35|| Front Page Top

#15 he'll be a Republican.

I think J C Watts comes to mind.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-29 09:36|| 2008-04-29 09:36|| Front Page Top

#16 along with the usual suspects Jessie and Sharpie

Speaking of sharpton, did anyone catch this?

Sharpton Leads "Kill the Police" Protesters in Harlem

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-04-29 11:16|| 2008-04-29 11:16|| Front Page Top

#17 Interesting. I got to the transcsipt this morning in one click from the link above. Now I've just spent five minutes trying to get back to it.

Did I become stupid after lunch? Or did someone take the transcript down and replace it with a discussion of what it really meant?

Posted by Bobby 2008-04-29 12:38|| 2008-04-29 12:38|| Front Page Top

#18 "I think people will understand that I am not perfect and that there are going to be folks in my past like..."

Add your wife Omarosa to the list of people I don't want beamed into my plasma TV for 4 or 8 years.

Posted by Capsu78 2008-04-29 12:49|| 2008-04-29 12:49|| Front Page Top

#19 I don't think there is any way that Obama can get away from this. Granted it is still April and the election is nearly 6 minths away, but this cuts deep. Wright is a friggin loon, but a nasty, angry divisive loon. He seems no different than Farrakahn, just with psuedo-Christian rather than psuedo-islamic trappings. Sadly, my initial impression is that most blacks in this country are going to try and give this nut cover. But he is such a nut that all but the most liberal white, hispanic and asian people are going to reject him and therefore Obama. The guy is toast.

Posted by remoteman 2008-04-29 13:34|| 2008-04-29 13:34|| Front Page Top

#20 Per remoteman: "The guy is toast".

Oh yeah.

Does anyone have a picture of burnt toast graphic to insert into this thread?

Some 4-5 weeks ago on these boards I noted an irony: A black preacher (Wright) predicted that a black candidate (Obama) could never be elected to the highest office in the USA because of white racism. The irony of course being that it would be the black preacher that kept the black candidate from ever getting to the WH, not white racism.

Billary's stock rose a great deal today.

Posted by MarkZ 2008-04-29 14:50|| 2008-04-29 14:50|| Front Page Top

#21 One more thing:

Concerning Rev. Wright and his rejection of "middle classness" as part and parcel of black liberation theology. Just WTH does that mean?

The neighborhood I live in is mostly white, but with a number of black families/households. Let me tell you what that means:

We all are paying for our homes. We all have mortgages that have to be paid on time. We pay taxes on the property. we pay our utilities on time. many, not all, have cable that's paid for not stolen. We paint our homes as needed. We cut our grass on weekends. We palnt flowers in flower beds. We have small gardens. We have parties in the backyard to celebrate First Communions, birthdays, graduations, wakes and wedddings that end at a reasonable time of night and don't last until 4 am. Cops are not called to shut us down because of music. got the occasional block party where everybody shows up with food and beer and soda.

Boring? To some I suppose it is. (It ain't no Mysteria Lane either).

But: no drug deals go down on my street that I can see. Nobody gets shot. Kids can go out at night w/o supervision. Doors are not locked (foolish as it may seem). People go to church on Sunday morning. Guys watch football in the winter on tv and listen to baseball on the radio on the porch in the summer.

I f**kin' love where I live.

Rev. Wright rejects it. That's how I know it's cool.

Posted by MarkZ 2008-04-29 15:30|| 2008-04-29 15:30|| Front Page Top

#22 MarkZ - Ya see, middle classness means you got a piece of pie that michelle obama thinks should go to someone else. If you wore a loincloth and lived in a cardboard box, you'd have about what the obamas and rev wright consider "your fair share."

Got it?

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-04-29 16:27|| 2008-04-29 16:27|| Front Page Top

#23 More like wore a loincloth and lived in a cardboard box and still worked 8 hours a day / six days a week to support Obama and Michelle and the other Vulture Elite.

Then you would be where (In BO's view) you should be.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-04-29 16:40|| 2008-04-29 16:40|| Front Page Top

#24 I hear cackling laughter from the horizon. It frankly scares me, I begin to think of the mile of broken glass.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-04-29 17:32|| 2008-04-29 17:32|| Front Page Top

#25 We must be wrong. All the Obama-supporting talking heads say he addressed the issue today, time to MoveOn. I guess any further discussion is evidence of racism

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-29 17:35|| 2008-04-29 17:35|| Front Page Top

#26 No Frank G,...McCainism! Queen Hillary will have to contend with the Rantburger's 'shift' of attention in June. As we speak, I am refitting my raft to 'jump ship' should the Obama oceanliner hit the iceberg! Hail Queen Hillary!

Posted by smn 2008-04-29 17:50|| 2008-04-29 17:50|| Front Page Top

#27 Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., suggested that controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright is angry with parishioner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and may be deliberately trying to hurt his presidential bid.

Saying that Wright "went out of his way to weaken Obama" during Monday's address at the National Press Club, Gingrich told Barbara Walters "I think Reverend Wright has a greater interest in his self-importance."

Posted by KBK 2008-04-29 19:40|| 2008-04-29 19:40|| Front Page Top

#28 Obama: Judge my words, not Wright's

Obama: "I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother -- a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."

Bull Shit Obama Lie. #1)

It is a RATIONAL FEAR for ANY grand mother [of all colors] to see a Black young Man or Black Adult STRANGER coming at them on a sidewalk.

Same holds true but less so according to crime stats, for a White young Man and White Adult.
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Bull Shit Obama Lie. #2)

I'd be willing to bet $25,000 that Obama's "white grandma" didn't use anymore offensive racist language that ANY family's grand parents. [all colors]

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-29 20:03|| 2008-04-29 20:03|| Front Page Top

#29 actually, the story is that she was scared by a particular black man, a panhandler, who was very aggressive on a specific occasion. If that was your Grandma- white, black, or plaid, would you blame her? He had to work long and hard to throw that nice lady (who did so much to raise him) under the bus to further his political career. Disgusting and unforgivable.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-29 20:15|| 2008-04-29 20:15|| Front Page Top

#30 Boring? To some I suppose it is.

That's the price of middle class. Regardless of whether you think you're white, black, brown, or yellow when you become middle class you all become gray. No one is special. We're all background noise. That is a challenge for those who live in an environment in which something just skin deep makes them 'special' and 'demands' attention. Martin Luther King's espoused concept of equality means invisibility in the community which too many of the leaders of the 'Black' community can not stand and do not want.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-29 20:50|| 2008-04-29 20:50|| Front Page Top

#31 Thanks Frank for fine tuning my comment and making it more accurate. Your use of the *Bus* metaphor makes your analysis more succinct also.

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No one is special. We're all background noise. That is a challenge for those who live in an environment in which something just skin deep makes them 'special' and 'demands' attention. Martin Luther King's espoused concept of equality means invisibility in the community which too many of the leaders of the 'Black' community can not stand and do not want.

Procopius2k: Amen!

MLK: Content of Character
MLK: Content of Character
MLK: Content of Character
MLK: Content of Character
AMEN!!

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-29 22:38|| 2008-04-29 22:38|| Front Page Top

#32 Amen, indeed, RD. When you strip this empty suit from everyone's projections of the Christmas tree everyone wishes he could be? - he's really V1.0 of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree: bare, dead, and not that attractive. His wife is the Mistletoe, which, if you didn't know, is really a hemi-parasite.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-29 23:09|| 2008-04-29 23:09|| Front Page Top

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