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After Break With Ex-Pastor, Obama Tries to Move On

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Posted by Fred 2008-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 With Obama grabbing that bull by the horns and 'slaying it', I would have thunk the appreciation in the Rantburger Hall of Consensus would be 'clapping with greatful applause'! Why am I hearing an echo in this room...........Hello...hello?!

Posted by smn 2008-05-01 05:00|| 2008-05-01 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 an echo chamber will do that.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-01 06:58|| 2008-05-01 06:58|| Front Page Top

#3 The situation with Reverend Wright was difficult, I wont lie to you, Mr. Obama said

It maybe "was" for him but should read "is" for everyone else.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-05-01 07:44|| 2008-05-01 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 "With Obama grabbing that bull by the horns and 'slaying it',"

He didn't grab bull, he spewed it.

He's either a clueless idiot or a lying, racist America-hater. That means he shouldn't be running a lemonade stand, let alone this country.

Posted by ebrown2 2008-05-01 10:01|| 2008-05-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Move On. Hmmmnow where have I heard that phrase before? Oh yeahwasnt there an organization by that name created after the last Democrat President committed adultery with a dim-witted girl half his age and then went on to lie about it to his family, friends, associates, the American people, and a grand jury? OKI think I get it now. Its like heywhats the big deal? All Obama did was join the church that would best suit his political ambitions. And when he heard the Pastor spew racist dogma from the pulpit he really wasnt all that outraged. In fact, he understood that it coincided quite nicely with the grievance-style politics he would need to become skilled at to be a successful politician from the south side of Chicago. Cant we just move on and talk about the real issues? That's the ticket!

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-05-01 10:35|| 2008-05-01 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh STUFF IT, smn.

MY disgust is with Obama dragging his feet for WEEKS while triangulating like any other power hungry politician. That he's incidentally black has nothing to do with it, BUT your insistance that that incidental fact "proves racism!" I CALL BULLSHIT. I CALL BLACK MCCARTHYISM. You know what I mean: using FALSE charges of racism and bigotry to SLANDER and SILENCE the truth and reasonable opinions and beliefs derived from that truth. What? JEALOUS that truth, and NOT your precious Politically motivated Political Correctness, isn't the GOLD STANDARD around here? Take your mastibatory self-righteousness elsewhere or I'll keep pointing it out!

Posted by ptah">ptah 2008-05-01 10:55|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-05-01 10:55|| Front Page Top

#7 With Obama grabbing that bull by the horns and 'slaying it',

Yeah, like I want a 'leader' who for 20 years closed his eyes to the truth, who as recently as his much vaunted Philadelphia speech still couldn't see the man for what he was and is, to be dealing with the scum and villainy of the world over our security. We already had that in Jimmy Carter. No need for a repeat.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-01 11:38|| 2008-05-01 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8
1) Joe McCarthy claimed hollywood was being infiltrated by communists. After the fall of the USSR, this was confirmed.

2) I think Obama as matador is a fitting metaphor. the bull is dead, and Obama took a possibly mortal blow.

A president is president for everyone. How fair will Obama be to all groups? He's a socialist, so the question is vital.

Posted by flash91 2008-05-01 11:54|| 2008-05-01 11:54|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't want a man so blindly ambitious and/or stupid that he doesn't recognize in 20 years what I recognized in two minutes to run this country in time of war.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-01 11:58|| 2008-05-01 11:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, well, good luck with that, Meat. You better look behind ya, something ugly is coming up fast...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-05-01 12:13|| 2008-05-01 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 donks sure do a lot of moving on, don't they?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-05-01 12:30|| 2008-05-01 12:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Movin On. Towards that light. At the end of the tunnel.
What could that light be maybe?

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-01 12:52|| 2008-05-01 12:52|| Front Page Top

#13 With Obama grabbing that bull by the horns and 'slaying it', I would have thunk the appreciation in the Rantburger Hall of Consensus would be 'clapping with greatful applause'!

Too little

Too late

Too finessed

Too dubious.

Posted by Pappy 2008-05-01 12:54|| 2008-05-01 12:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Ptah's capping---now I've seen everything.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-05-01 13:55|| 2008-05-01 13:55|| Front Page Top

#15 Yeah, Grom. I've had my fill of smn.

Flash91, I totally agree that McCarthy was right about communists. I was using "Black McCarthyism" to describe behavior in terms that are calculated to be offensive to liberals: To them, McCarthy was a bogeyman who was accused of using an underhanded tactic to unfairly silence critics. By my applying the term to them, I'm saying THEY are as bad as their arch-bogeyman, and that they are using the SAME underhanded tactic to unfairly silence THEIR critics.

Sauce. Goose. Gander.

Posted by ptah">ptah 2008-05-01 14:31|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-05-01 14:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Tailgunner Joe was doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, an old story. Plus, he had all the tact and grace of a rabid weasel.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-05-01 14:36|| 2008-05-01 14:36|| Front Page Top

#17 Yeah, Grom. I've had my fill of smn.

I should've finished with a ":-)".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-05-01 16:58|| 2008-05-01 16:58|| Front Page Top

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