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Posted by Fred 2008-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Too little, way too late. Change!

Posted by N guard 2008-04-30 03:19|| 2008-04-30 03:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Which would be ever so slightly credible if these two thieves had not said they would establish distance between each other if Obama's campaign got this far. The only question is whether Democrats are dumb enough to fall for it.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-04-30 06:19|| 2008-04-30 06:19|| Front Page Top

#3 But Reverend Wright has been saying these things the past 20 years-- the church has been selling the tapes. Sudden outrage over the latest statement, televised live, does not ring true...as we would expect from the honourable freshman senator, the Candidate Obama.

Posted by trailing wife 2008-04-30 07:16|| 2008-04-30 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 AH, TW ... But he's all about (as N Guard puts it) change! So he's going to change! Show the world what it means to change! He can do it! Admit he made a mistake! Go to another church! Stop donating big bucks to the Rev. Wright's church! Change!

Change, baby! Lemme show you how it's done!

Posted by Bobby 2008-04-30 07:54|| 2008-04-30 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Rev. Wright's message and Obama's association with him works well on the local African-American political scene in Chicago.

Nationally (or outside of any inner city), it is a train-wreck.

Obama wants to continue without the scrutiny, so he throws Wright under the bus and the inner city folks are going to give him as 'pass' for this action (hudna).

"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" - It's a sour Waffle indeed.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-04-30 08:01|| 2008-04-30 08:01|| Front Page Top

#6 You dissed us, Barack. You dissed us!
Now you pay...

Posted by Big Arugula 2008-04-30 08:27|| 2008-04-30 08:27|| Front Page Top

#7 The only question is whether Democrats are dumb enough to fall for it.

There is no question about it, they are.

Posted by Thromonter Platypus6242 2008-04-30 08:32|| 2008-04-30 08:32|| Front Page Top

#8 "Obama said of the man who married him."

Ha!

OK, I'm five. But still!

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-04-30 09:11|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-04-30 09:11|| Front Page Top

#9 This was the minimum he had to do. He finally used the word "outrage" and stopped giving us lectures about the black church. And kinda sorta repudiated rev. nutso personally, by saying "this aint the man I met 20 yrs ago"

NOw I think he coulda hit the ball out of the park by going further, and point by point rejecting it in more detail, and I think the black community would have gone with him on that. But he has a tendency toward caution. Hes not going for homers, when he can get on base with a single. Of course that kind of strategy can lose ball games.

That speaks to too little.

Is it too late? I dont know. Probably not vis a vis Hillary. She could still squeak it out, but it easy to see her losing the nomination.
Vis a vis McCain? Probably not either - sure its inconsistent with his prior statement, but I think folks here would be among the first to say McCain has been far from consistent himself on a few issues. Now to me, the willingess to change in the face of facts is a positive on both their parts (as for Hillary too) and that its sometimes blatantly political isnt always bad either.

Now if someone has tapes of Rev Nutso saying this consistently, over the last two decades, that could still be quite damaging. But if its just over the last 4 years, probably not. The real secret Obama doesnt want to talk about is that, given his stellar (and from the experience viewpoint, troubling) rise from state legislator to US Senate to Prez candidate in 4 years, he almost certainly was NOT in church very much at all over that time. Hes basically been in almost fulltime campaign mode the entire period.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-04-30 09:32|| 2008-04-30 09:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Obama's first mistake was not throwing Wright off the planet when the first hint of this came up in the press. Now, it just looks like desperation. Wright has said this crap for far too long and Obama has been with him for too long and Wright will end Obama's chances for a general election win.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-30 10:29|| 2008-04-30 10:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Ayers may sink him; Wright won't.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-30 10:55|| 2008-04-30 10:55|| Front Page Top

#12 A month ago he could no longer disavow him then he could his own grandmother, now he'd set him on fire on national television if he could get the airtime.
Got a feeling Barack's getting sick of waking up in the middle of the night in a flop sweat while grabbing for his cigarettes...

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-30 12:12|| 2008-04-30 12:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Hillary. She could still squeak it out, but it easy to see her losing the nomination.

NO, mark my words, she intends to be President, that includes small things like stealing the nomination as a matter of fact.

She WILL steal it, or try hard to.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-30 14:08|| 2008-04-30 14:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Democrat Barrack Obama said Tuesday he was outraged and appalled by the latest comments from his former pastor

Obama even went as far as describing his former Pastors words as destructive. Oddly, he never described Wrights words as being Racist. Oh thats rightonly the White privileged class can beyou knowracist. Pardon me...I must have been using the typical white person left-side of my brain.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-04-30 15:06|| 2008-04-30 15:06|| Front Page Top

#15 It is an attack on the black church launched by people who know nothing about the African-American religious tradition.

Well, maybe it's time for a little lesson.

My guess is that Wright's church may be further away from center than most. But then why is it so popular if that is so? I also guess that this "black church" should hold about the same values as the "church" in general. But if this is true, then why should there be a market for white/black/other churches?

Posted by gorb 2008-04-30 15:34|| 2008-04-30 15:34|| Front Page Top

#16 B.O. hasn't dispelled the Wright issue with this single, calculated, belated statement.

The Dem nominee is a win/win for Republicans: either Hillary's gals or Obama's blacks will be thoroughly disaffected.

McCain? Ugh! But pass the popcorn anyway.

Posted by Kirk 2008-04-30 18:38|| 2008-04-30 18:38|| Front Page Top

#17 heh heh, the pic what-guareenteed an afternoon LIFT & HOOT!

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-30 18:45|| 2008-04-30 18:45|| Front Page Top

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