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Hutchinson on Obama: Stop Him Before He Talks About Wright Again!
April 29, 2008 6:42 PM
On the Huffington Post, Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes, "Whoever on Team Obama keeps feeding into Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's seeming compulsive need to speak out on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright should get the swift boot."
Faulting Obama for his "halting, stumbling, anguished voice press conference" today, Hutchinson says the myriad speeches, interviews and press conferences he's given on the subject have given "talking heads more salacious grist for the gossip and rumor mill about Wright, the church and Obama's long term relationship with both. He's elevated Wright from a relatively obscure, local preacher to a nationally known polarizing figure. He's deepened the suspicions of those who all along felt that he was a closet radical and race panderer."
The episode has caused many Democrats to have second thoughts about Obama and no "matter how much he protests that Wright doesn't represent him or his thinking, the fact is he sat in his church for nearly two decades, called him a spiritual mentor and family confidant, appointed him to an advisory post in his campaign, and in his so-called race speech refused to disown his two decade experience and relationship with him. This instantly makes his Wright protest sound like the wail of a politician running scared, and who sees the long, arduous, time consuming and patient work he put into building up public trust in him as the nation's great political hope fast washing down the drain."
Tough stuff. Whaddaya think?
- jpt
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Wow! Unbelievable comments about Obama from folks who never supported him anyway. Most are quoting or half quoting what they heard someone else say and the others are... well you know what I'm saying. Wright was definitely wrong, but he and his congregation are not joined at the hip. Sunday is but one day in a week and we don't all go to church every Sunday. I know many of you can identify with that. When we marry, we do so for better or worse, to death do us part. Unlike Sunday, it's a 24-7 event. But then something happens. The person we thought we knew and loved, changes over time; sometimes 20 years. We try to deny it, but then there is that last straw, and we divorce them because we recognize that we don't have the same values and beliefs anymore, if ever, and we certainly don't want to be like them or support them going forward. Life happens, but who the heck is Hutchinson? We would be better served by your focusing on the important issues in this great political race. The circus has left town. Let's move on.
Posted by: Diane | May 1, 2008 2:05:05 PM
QUICK!... Someone give Oblahma a BIGGER PEDAL!! He is backpaddling so quick he just can't get away quick enough! LOL!!
Oblahma, Time to get away???
How about ANOTHER VACATION with a ONE-WAY ticket that is...oh, and don't forget Michelle "I hate America" Oblahma!!!!
Posted by: JustWords | May 1, 2008 12:33:47 AM
On target that Obama can't speak extemporaneously, handle news conferences or think on his feet.
The whole episode proves he's just a scripted candidate.
So much for those ridiculous comparisons to Jack Kennedy. Spin goes into rinse cycle.
Posted by: expatriot | Apr 30, 2008 5:05:12 PM
The people in Trinity are not going to be happy with Obama...wish someone had the guts to come forward and say"heck yes he knew about Wright's sermons, he sat in the pews 20 years!"
Sadly I think they want a black president so badly they will sit on the truth. Where is their loyalty to Rev.Wright?
Posted by: cindy in nc | Apr 30, 2008 1:11:09 PM
Hey Jake,
Did he really think he could sweep 20 years under the rug...give me a break!
Posted by: 30yrdem | Apr 30, 2008 12:14:54 PM
The Rev. Wright says Obama is a politician and he the Rev. is a Pastor. Could it be that Rev. Wright speaks what he believes and is therefore honest. He sees Obama's denial of having heard these sermons before as dishonest and as a Pastor can not sit back and allow the lies to continue. Obama could not and would not disown Wright untill he heard Rev. Wright call Obama a politician, the thing Obama claims not to be. Obama did not disown Rev. Wright for saying that America manufactured AIDS to kill blacks or had 911 coming to them, Obama only disowned Wright when Wright called Obama a politician. Obama did not sit in the church for 20 years and bring his kids to the church unless he agreed with the principles in the Rev. Wright sermons. Obama lies while Rev. Wright appears to be honest.
I also will vote McCain if the DNC is fool enough to nominate Obama.
HILLARY 08
Posted by: jodi | Apr 30, 2008 12:06:24 PM
Obama did the right thing, reinforcing my support for his candidacy.
Posted by: SpaceCat | Apr 30, 2008 11:55:01 AM
One question for us to judge and to be judged:
Had Obama not ran for presidency, do you *honestly* think he would condemn Rev. Wright?
Posted by: Victor | Apr 30, 2008 10:35:28 AM
Who is Hutchinson and why are you quoting him? He thinks Obama was too emotional, Glen Reynolds said he was too reserved and "lawyerly" and all this only matters because it saves the press from having to learn economics.
Posted by: Irene | Apr 30, 2008 10:32:34 AM
Who is Hutchinson and why are you quoting him? He thinks Obama was too emotional, Glen Reynolds said he was too reserved and "lawyerly" and all this only matters because it saves the press from having to learn economics.
Posted by: Irene | Apr 30, 2008 10:32:27 AM
He is my spiritual advisor... he's not my spiritual advisor. I can't disown him... I can disown him. He is the black community (and therefore can't be disowned)... he isn't the black community.
He is going to pay a terrible but deserved price for going along with the angry black minister and the angry black wife all these years. Even if we take him at his word that it didn't poison him, he let his children be steeped in this environment. Oprah left the same church over disagreements with Wright. Why didn't he?
Posted by: commonsensenj | Apr 30, 2008 10:21:43 AM
Hutchison got it right. 20 years he sat there and he's lying if he says he didn't know this man's views. This was a transparent political move after a night of polling to see what people think. Several people from upcoming primaries report being polled the night before. Obama could have said the same things at his press conference the day before and didn't - he waited till his internal polling was done and decided he had to do it or lose the election. So much for "new" politics - sounds like the same old politics from mister wet behind the ears - we don't need another novice in the white house - we've had 7 years of that already and it's been a disaster.
Posted by: LB | Apr 30, 2008 9:09:41 AM
Beto, your 7:25:42 p.m. post says it all. We've seen how weak Obama is when it comes to confronting difficult issues. He's too insecure to even face Hillary in another debate - without moderators where he can ask her questions. What a wimp. I can't imagine him talking to "America's worst enemies" as he's vowed to do without pre-conditions or negotiations.
Does he think this primary is hard work? Does he think being POTUS is going to be easier than this? He'll be curled up in a fetal position in a corner!
Posted by: HoosierSue | Apr 30, 2008 6:36:43 AM
Obama singled out several statements of Wright's to condemn:
The AIDS thing, which he had to have heard before through the snippets - and there was no way to "take out of context".
His praise of Farrakhan - who has not only endorsed Obama, but Obama returned the favor when he attended the Million Man March with Wright.
Wright's equating U.S. war efforts with terrorism - which he couldn't possibly have missed in Wright's God d*mn America sermon, unless he was too irresponsible to listen to that sermon in full to know the facts behind the sound bites.
Obama knows very well who Wright is and where he stands on African American and world issues. He has called him his spiritual mentor and stated that he consults him before making major political moves.
Say what you will about Wright; he says what he means and stands behind his words. Obama is just another politician, and we now see without a doubt that he'll say and do anything to get elected.
Don't worry though; he and Wright will kiss and make up should Obama take the White House with Michelle as mediator. Then they can work together to advance their African American, African and anti-Israel agendas.
Posted by: HoosierSue | Apr 30, 2008 6:28:37 AM
Senator Obama sat in a church for 20 years with deaf ears and closed eyes and did not know until now what was going on. How can he be considered for one minute as a presidential candidate?
I consider this just another BIG LIE of Obama. This man should step out of the political spot light now but apologize to all his supporters first.
Posted by: Mary | Apr 30, 2008 2:30:36 AM
America has the attention span of a moth. LOok at the purty light. People were forgetting about Wright even while they were still thinking about him.
A candidate makes up a story about being under sniper fire and no one remembers it today.
People don't take ministers seriously in this country. We're not deeply religious. In fact, our whole country is founded on religious tolerance. Our first settlers were religious outcasts of England. Throw in some Quakers, Catholics, Calvinists, jesuits, Anabaptists, Lutherans etc. (as early as mid 1600s) and you've got people who learned not to care what their neighbor's minister was saying.
Today is no different. Americans don't care about what some minister says, even a would-be president's. That's why Wright didn't hurt Obama before and won't hurt him now. All the wacky ministers on the right, no one cares. Every year they come out and lament God punishing the U.S. and then support the Republicans -- no one cares.
The only people who care about Wright are those with an agenda and those in the media. I talk to people in all walks of life - people don't care. The polls have shown people don't care.
Show me a Republican talking about Wright and I'll show you someone who doesn't want to talk about the president going down as the worst in U.S. history, who nearly doubled the national debt, sent 4000 blue-collar boys(and girls) off to die in the desert for WMDs that never existed, devalued the dollar, increased the trade deficit, watched 50million American men women and children go without medical care, passed a law making it harder for working folks to declare bankruptcy, ignored the intelligence warnings the month before 9/11, made it harder to unionize, changed regulations to make more people "managers" not subject to overtime pay, ruined our reputation in the world, let Bin Laden live the pastoral life in peace while we fought a non-enemy in Iraq, trampled the constitution with illegal invasion of the privacy of US citizens, instituted torture of fellow human beings, and generally waged a presidency of disinformation, deceit, arrogance, and dishonest.
Posted by: JTS | Apr 30, 2008 12:34:16 AM
This is total David Axelrod in mega political damage motion! What a great set up. Send Wright around on a brief and outrageous press tour, conveniently when Obama's numbers are tanking, but a full week before the primary, and then Obama can denounce or renounce or disown the Wright reverend without alienating all the black voters! Did it work? Is this another hoodwinked and bamboozled moment? Wow. When Obama is president, life in the White House will be who's next to get thrown under the bus!
Posted by: frisco girl | Apr 29, 2008 11:16:12 PM
What do Hillary Clinton, George Bush and John McCain have in common?
This axis of irresponsibility are are peddling deceptive remedies to the Gas Price Problem.
Bush says stupid stuff that is demonstratively false about ANWAR saving the day. This ain't the worst of it. It is bad enough that he can look at the camera with a straight face and play the anwar nonsense to the voters. The worst of it is that he expects the you are stupid enough to fall for it. Hardcore disrespect.
Enter Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Both Hillary and John take up the Bush Stupidity Challenge. They both expect alotta you to fall for it, too. These two are staying the course, I'd say.
But apparently the 3 Panderers are the Grownups. Bush is just their leader and friend .... and a loser that leads the way.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | Apr 29, 2008 11:13:31 PM
Obama has been, is, and always be a figment of the liberal press's imagination. Chrissy Matthews is today
panicked that the balloon has popped.
So are all the pundits on NBC, and
most on CNN....just livid that their
anointed appears to be in over his
head, is a piker against the Clinton
machine....and absent an arena of
thousands of followers, is a very
average politico. My, how the mighty
have fallen. Soon we'll be told what
a fantastic candidate Hillary was,
and IS and deserves to beat McCain
with a paddle!
Posted by: hombre | Apr 29, 2008 11:13:15 PM
Obama is what this country needs, not the has been Clintons that feel this presidency is owed to them
Posted by: Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 11:11:52 PM
"We need to give Obama a break. We have no idea what is really going on."
We need to give Obama the hook!
And you might consider using another handle, 'Belle -- don't wanna confuse anybody.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 11:09:17 PM
What happens when the Reverend Wright decides to write a tell-all book about Obama and Michelle? What happens when Reverend Wright decides to talk about what Obama really thinks about Iran, Syria, Hamas, Israel, or Pakistan? The Reverend Wright said at the National Press Club he will be following Obama into the White House, whether Obama wants him there or not. And why was Al Sharpton on Larry King Live getting into this and speaking for Obama? This is getting all too crazy and there is a country that needs to be run. Obama does not have the backbone to stand up to Reverend Wright and company, how will Obama stand up to America's enemies? Oh, yes, the liberal left believes that America has no enemies - WRIGHT?
Posted by: rs | Apr 29, 2008 11:08:52 PM
Belle star so true, so true. i wonder how many more folks can this guy throw under the bus? i mean who is left? the young, ok, african americans who (the last time i checked) constitute 13.4% of the total american population-with 30% under the age of 18. seems like a stretch to me. and gee no caucus' in the general complete with hired thugs to intimidate the caucus attendees. this guy is totally unelectable. my relations in colorado called to say they wish they could take their votes for obama back!
Posted by: sonia trevino | Apr 29, 2008 11:05:22 PM
hombre writes:
"Don't see anyone fainting anymore at an Obama event....just Obama."
Yes, He Ran ... from a debate.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 11:04:40 PM
I agree with a couple of people on here, that this may be a well thought out ploy. On Greta tonight, a good friend of Rev Wright's said they had suggested that Obama should have distanced himself from the Rev. about 3yrs. ago, because they knew this was going to be brought up sometime during the elections, but they thought it would not be during the primaries but rather closer to the general election. All political tactics!!!!!!! America beware.
Posted by: JG | Apr 29, 2008 11:03:00 PM
We need to give Obama a break. We have no idea what is really going on.
Posted by: 'Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 11:02:12 PM
The Messiah of Hope....remember him
from a few months ago?.....now sounds
like a third grader explaining why
his homework assignment is late. Boy,
you Dems sure blow hot and cold on
a marginal candidate. Don't see anyone
fainting anymore at an Obama event....
just Obama.
Posted by: hombre | Apr 29, 2008 10:59:59 PM
The Obama campaign and his myriad of supporters fail to see that Obama's campaign is mortally wounded. Obama fails to see how his membership in this church and his close relationship with the Rev. Wright deeply offended and hurt many Americans. How can Obama talk about change and bringing people together when he has immersed himself in this anger and hatred at white people, jews, Israel and the United States government for 20 years? What hurts and offends me as a woman, is that the pundits seem to only care that a black man get the nomination because of its significance. The media has thrown Hillary and women under the bus with Obama's grandma.
GO HILLARY 08!
Posted by: calli | Apr 29, 2008 10:58:27 PM
dc writes:
"In hindsight, I bet he is wishing he had at least finished out his first Senate term before running for President."
Everybody ELSE is wishing Obama'd actually had to CAMPAIGN for the Illinois and/or U.S. Senate seats -- in which case he'd be lucky to be a Chicago alderman or something, instead of a prime-time showboat.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 10:54:55 PM
Looks like Hillary put her plump
arm into a pile of manure and came
out with a gold watch.....Boy, aren't
these Clinton's lucky?
Posted by: cine-motif | Apr 29, 2008 10:53:24 PM
Belle and Sonia...thx...Stop Obama maybe but I'm
thinking this would have more zing....
B.O. Stop the B.S.
I, for one, am ready for this one this Fall
mcCain
or
Able
HRC for POTUS.
Posted by: LL Barra | Apr 29, 2008 10:47:04 PM
sonia trevino writes:
"i felt bad when he stuttered his way thru his speech."
Why? He stutters in one-on-one debates, too.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 10:46:43 PM
oh yes.. please don't save the planet, give me healthcare or stop the country from bankrupting into another Great Depression... Obama's preacher said something whacky.
Posted by: Doug | Apr 29, 2008 10:45:19 PM
I also sort of felt sorry for Obama at the press conference today. It did give a little insight though into how he would react to hard questions if elected. I just think he is way out of his league having never been properly vetted by the press before. At this point, I think he would have been better off to make a short,simple statement on Wright's rantings yesterday rather that the forced ramblings from reporter questions which just opened up more questions. In hindsight, I bet he is wishing he had at least finished out his first Senate term before running for President. I am just surprised that his advisors seemed so unprepared for this whole Wright issue coming up, maybe because the press lured them into a false sense of security through the first part of his campaign.
Posted by: dc | Apr 29, 2008 10:42:56 PM
so basically hutchinson (HUFFINGHTON POST) is saying keep quiet obama before you loose the ' far left wing fringe' who agree with mr. wright that america and americans are evil.
consider the source, consider the source-the huffinton post is obamaland.
Posted by: sonia trevino | Apr 29, 2008 10:41:48 PM
I just listened to BO's press conference. He is so LAME! what a joke Obama and his candidacy is. Wright's comments this weekend were pretty tame compared to his vile sermons we've seen on the internet. why the big change in Obama's heart? oh yeah, his poll numbers are tanking!
Posted by: cc | Apr 29, 2008 10:41:20 PM
Obama, keep digging! You will never be elected now.
Posted by: Leslie | Apr 29, 2008 10:36:31 PM
Oh really Belle Star, what do you know that the rest of us don't. Are you privy to info, do tell please.
Posted by: lily | Apr 29, 2008 10:35:48 PM
for Obama, change just mean "pick me" and that's it.
if he want change really, change his church first,
Posted by: change | Apr 29, 2008 10:35:48 PM
LLbara you are hysterical your take on the t-shirt slogan is great!
Posted by: sonia trevino | Apr 29, 2008 10:34:12 PM
LL Barra writes:
"Seems like those T-shirts that David
Axelrod and company are sporting saying...Stop the Drama, Vote for Obama will need a wash and tumble dry this week."
Or RUMBLE dry. Maybe they can just cut out the middle, leaving "Stop Obama".
Obama's delayed bit denouncing "old uncle" Jeremiah didn't sound so much like a "divorce" (as the MSM solemnly describes it) as like a junior-high school girl undergoing a change of "best friends".
Posted by: Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 10:32:16 PM
i am absolutely stunned that some obama supporters actually believe that hillary had something to do with this disaster. next thing i expect to hear is that 'little green men' sent by hillary, dispatched a spaceship full of little green men who took over mr. wrights mind and made him read a speech written by hillary. it may come as a surprise to you, but some of us hillary supporters actually feel bad for mr obama-i know i do. i felt bad when he stuttered his way thru his speech. i find it absolutely ironic that obamas extreme left wing wackos were in total agreement with what mr. wright said just one day before. so how are they going to reconcile the fact that obama has publicly admonished his pastor, and denied sharing any of his ideology which 'some' on the left applauded as 'telling it like it is about america'?
Posted by: sonia trevino | Apr 29, 2008 10:28:49 PM
I hope all the Sen. Clinton haters
will extend that innocent until proven guilty to her also-she equals a human also-she has a mother and she has brought life into this world.
so innocent until proven guilty.
and that is a mighty good statement
Posted by: jgaw | Apr 29, 2008 10:27:56 PM
N-O-B-A-M-A
Posted by: moogie_101 | Apr 29, 2008 10:26:38 PM
I can't help but think this maybe a wink-wink deal between the Rev and Obama. If you go along with me now we can smooth it oven when I am in the White House.
Posted by: Tina from Florida | Apr 29, 2008 10:25:44 PM
This is a stage fight between Obama and Reverend Wright, his beloved pastor and mentor, Wright attacks Obama then Obama attacks Wright..Obama is the victim of his renegade pastor..poor me..rescue me vote for me...Nothing has change between these two men..they are bound by friendship and their goal of bringing Black Liberation Theology to the White House.
Posted by: Antonn | Apr 29, 2008 10:21:29 PM
No Follow Obama
We can speculate all we want. But for all you know Obama is truely hurt and outraged by what has happened with Wright. In our country you are innocent until proven guilty, are you not. What happened to that.
Posted by: lisa | Apr 29, 2008 10:21:10 PM
You are absolutely right Jake.
Obama is so far out in left field it isnt even funny.
I would be EMBARRASED if he get the nomination. Can you imagine being white and being scared to walk down the street. It will come my friends if we let this guy in.
Every hard working white person like me should stand up for Hillary - we know she will stand up for everyone - not just radical blacks.
Also, - what did you people expect him to do when pushed - did you think he would say yeah I believe just like Wright - of course he cant he is running for public office. But we are smarter than that oh yes - he sat in those pews for 20 years. I am not fooled.
Posted by: Drew | Apr 29, 2008 10:16:26 PM
What I find amusing is that weeks ago Hillary
Clinton in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune
said...that Wright "would not have been my pastor."
"You don't choose your family, but you choose what
church you want to attend."
And she was promptly attacked by the MSM.
Of course, in case you all forgot Hillary is also in
this contest. Seems like those T-shirts that David
Axelrod and company are sporting saying...
Stop the Drama, Vote for Obama will need a wash
and tumble dry this week.
Perhaps the new slogan should be
Want more Drama vote for Obama!
Posted by: LL Barra | Apr 29, 2008 10:15:01 PM
There's no way this thing is over. Even if Wright keeps quiet and doesn't answer Obama back, the press will follow him until he blurts something out. Then it will be news all over again. And if what he says at that point is inflammatory (as it well might be), it will headline the news. Anyone who thinks this is going away is as naive as Obama claims he's been for the past 20 years.
Posted by: Vnd | Apr 29, 2008 10:14:35 PM
It's a trick.
This is "same ole politics" at its finest.
Barack's campaign people, who are cunning, told him to pull this big stunt to try and cut Wright as being a "future threat" during the general election.
The real message people need to see right away is that Barack is an experienced trickster, and he's playing his followers right into approving his broken character.
Barack is a liar and a flip flopper, a windsock, and a cunning politician.
Don't fall for it!! You'll be so sorry if you do.
Hillary has baggage all right, but it's not going to stop her from taking care of the working class, from implementing Universal Healthcare to increasing Education benefits.
Americans MUST see this IMMEDIATELY and not make the mistake of putting Barack into the Primary. It's all going to backfire on his campaign, don't let it be too late to choose a better candidate!!
Posted by: No Follow Obama | Apr 29, 2008 10:14:01 PM
"America in 2008 is a downright mean country."
The loud-mouthed malcontent Michelle Obama would make a wonderful first lady. My God.
Never was Michelle more eloquent than when she was complaining about her student loans from Princton and Harvard.
Posted by: Larro G | Apr 29, 2008 10:12:43 PM
Why are we WASTING so much time with this UNELECTABLE candidate OBAMA?
It comes down to a question of character, OBAMA HAS NONE!!!
End of story.
Rally behind Hillary and let's get Universal Healthcare going for the working class (and others who need it)!!
Posted by: Why | Apr 29, 2008 10:11:53 PM
Nothing is a safe bet for Obama now...Indiana, North Carolina, Oregon...this is not over till Reverend Wright stops touring the country and he will never stop...
Posted by: Antonn | Apr 29, 2008 10:11:24 PM
Jack writes:
"Obama and his hard-left coalition ..."
"HARDLY left", you mean?
Posted by: Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 10:11:24 PM
Antonn: HAte to tell you this, but 70% of Oregon lives in either Portland or Eugene. Both of these cities are some of the most liberal in the country. When they go Dem. so does the res tof the state. They will never go for CLinton. Sorry... I reasearch my information well.
Posted by: ron | Apr 29, 2008 10:11:07 PM
Now he thinks he never has to answer to anyone about this again he better get a grip because this thing is far from over.
Posted by: Bishop | Apr 29, 2008 10:10:51 PM
Jeremiah Wright, HAMAS, the New Black Panthers Party, Bill Ayers, Louis Farrakhan, Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Maher, the Weather Underground, Michael Moore, etc. etc. etc.
Is there a hateful, anti-American individual or group that Obama is not aligned with yet?
Obama is the Trojan horse for hate. Nothing more.
Posted by: Chels Five | Apr 29, 2008 10:09:51 PM
People who go around bashing others and calling them names have low self-esteem, personal strife in their lives, feel power in attacking people because they feel insecure about themselves, and usually have trouble adjusting to new ideas or situations that they cannot clearly grasp. Because change scares them, they resort to anger to mask their fears.
Posted by: j | Apr 29, 2008 10:08:37 PM
ron writes:
"Belle Star: Is there a note of jealousy in your message?"
The birthday-suit message, you mean? Maybe: Obama was plopped into the U.S. Senate based on nothing -- high salary, lifetime healthcare, etc. Most people, definitely including me, could use some of that.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 10:08:23 PM
Why Obama lie again! he said this morning that he didn't hear divisive remark's Rev. Wright said.
he told a different story in his speech in Philadelphia, Obama said: “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes,”
Posted by: Auch | Apr 29, 2008 10:07:52 PM
Ron: Oregon will be contested..polls there are getting closer..People in Oregon will turn against Obama..Too many small towns with too many Whites..trust me this is no over...
Posted by: Antonn | Apr 29, 2008 10:06:33 PM
"I....uhhhh....uhhhh.....you know...uhhhh.....uhhhhh....you know.....I.....uhhhhh.....uhhhhhh..
..you......well.....uhhhhh.....uhhhh..."
---Obama, off the teleprompter.
Posted by: Oh No | Apr 29, 2008 10:05:51 PM
Jack: Must have taken you all day to come up with that one.
Posted by: ron | Apr 29, 2008 10:03:54 PM
Obama is garbage.
Posted by: Kyle | Apr 29, 2008 10:03:26 PM
Antonn: I think you have your math wrong. Oregon has more delegates than Kentucky or West Virginia. Montana and South Dakota combined have more delegates than West Virginia, and are equal in amount to Kentucky. Once again the math is against Clinton. In fact, Obama can just win NC and OR and lose the other contests, and he will still be ahead of CLinton in delegates by nearly 100. Sorry...
Posted by: ron | Apr 29, 2008 10:02:42 PM
Obama + Jeremiah + Louis + Michelle + Bill =
HARD.
LEFT.
HATE.
Obama and his hard-left coalition of hate will be defeated by intelligent, decent, caring Americans everywhere.
Posted by: Jack | Apr 29, 2008 10:01:33 PM
It's 3 A.M. and I'm having nightmares about Bosnia. Where's Bill? Why isn't he in bed?
Posted by: kelly | Apr 29, 2008 9:59:34 PM
Why wasn't Obama appalled by Wright earlier, before he ran for president and his campaign was on the verge of collapse?
The Obama lie continues.
Posted by: Derrick | Apr 29, 2008 9:59:18 PM
Rev. Wright will have no effect. Denouncing him was a good idea.
Obama leads by so many pledged delegates it is impossible for HRC to catch up. He has to loose all remaining contests by 40 points for her to overtake him in pledged delegates. Her fuzzy math attempts to recalculate the popular vote won’t help.
More superdelegates have announced their support for Obama after her 9 point win in PA than for HRC.
Obama announced his plan for a 50 state investment in voter registration and joint fund raising with the DNC, aiding all Democrats running in November and leaving no state behind. HRC has not. She does not have the money or the support.
She only wants debates and because she can’t get her message out due to mismanagement of campaign funds and lack of support from grass roots voters. Shows her desperation.
Obama has the real forward thinking ideas. They have been up on his web site for months.
Who has the real momentum in this race?
Posted by: NotSuprised | Apr 29, 2008 9:57:02 PM
GIVE ME A BREAK, WE ARE ALL HYPOCRITS!! Listen to ourselves, it's discusting!! I don't care if you are Pro-Obama, Pro-Hillary, or Pro-McCain, read these blogs and you tell me, what the hell has changed with the attitudes of Americans that set us free from our past?
I read the religious community bashing Rev Wright as being racist and anti american and not being "christian". are you serious? The very basic principal's of religion is that WE ALL ALL SINNERS!!! "He who has not SINNED cast the first stone" Yet we keep IGNORING GOD and cast those stones as if we're sinnless?
I hear others say that we need to "forget the horrible ways we've treated people in the past, what's done is done, move on". But yet here we are participating in malicious, hostile and offensive attacks against anyone who says or does anything we don't like, and we don't care who we destroy in the process. So how have we changed as a people? as a Nation? How are we keeping those types of attitudes and distructive actions in the past? Read these blogs, and tell me we are NOT the same people who are willing to do the things we have in the past.
And to justify our actions we say things like "the media" or "Obama" or "Hillary" are dividing this County? We blame everyone else for our actions STILL? How can you or anyone else "Divide" a people if they ARE NOT WILLING to be divided? We CHOOSE to divide or not divide, WE CHOOSE to write the uplifting or demoralizing things in these blogs, WE CHOOSE to accept distortions as facts and perpetuate lies, or WE CHOOSE to insist on facts over distortions and perpetuate truths.
WE CHOOSE to accept that dirty campaigning and smear tactics as a legitimate part of the process. Why?
I had Hope! Not because of a single man, but because of a leader of a postive movement for real change. If Obama loses the Presidency, it isn't because he failed, its because we have.
Posted by: Loke Gandeza | Apr 29, 2008 9:56:56 PM
jgaw writes:
"I also heard on cnn of all places-a two of obama' campaign workers said he seemed bored with the primary process."
I expect he IS. With the patronage of the odious John Kerry and coaching from Axelrod, Obama expected simply to ASSUME the nomination by knocking the other candidates off the ballot -- just as Obama gained the Illinois state Senate seat and the U.S. Senate seat.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Apr 29, 2008 9:56:40 PM
"This instantly makes his Wright protest sound like the wail of a politician running scared, and who sees the long, arduous, time consuming and patient work he put into building up public trust in him as the nation's great political hope fast washing down the drain."
I agree wholeheartedly. Obama is a fraud and liar. Today's press conference is just more evidence BO will lie about anything and anyone to get elected. His comments about NOW, finally after 20 years, being offended by Reverend Wright is very sad, downright pathetic.
Posted by: cc | Apr 29, 2008 9:54:50 PM
Let’s see:
Obama leads by so many pledged delegates it is impossible for HRC to catch up. He has to loose all remaining contests by 40 points for her to overtake him in pledged delegates. Her fuzzy math attempts to recalculate the popular vote won’t help.
More superdelegates have announced their support for Obama after her 9 point win in PA than for HRC.
Obama announced his plan for a 50 state investment in voter registration and joint fund raising with the DNC, aiding all Democrats running in November and leaving no state behind. HRC has not. She does not have the money or the support.
She only wants debates and because she can’t get her message out due to mismanagement of campaign funds and lack of support from grass roots voters. Shows her desperation.
Obama has the real forward thinking ideas. They have been up on his web site for months.
Who has the real momentum in this race?
Posted by: NotSuprised | Apr 29, 2008 9:54:18 PM
Obama has done the right thing, he has shown respect for America and American people. The reality is that there is a generation gap here and PEOPLE LIKE Jessy Jackson Jr, Patrick Duval and Obama want to turn the page and America should give a chance to Obama to bring the country tgether and move forward. Hillary is a divider and so is McCain. God bless America and God bless Obama.obama08
Posted by: BKMC | Apr 29, 2008 9:54:09 PM
obama said he only heard rev. wright preach some really good sermons.
and he never heard him preach what we are hearing now.
I have a question:
If obama has sat in the church for 20years, and he said he never heard rev. wright preach sermons such as we have heard-he only heard good sermons
where are the video of these good sermons? and why hasn't tccc released any of these sermons to the media?
I keep hearing obama say he only heard wright preach good sermons-so where are they?
Posted by: jgawakaoldgeezernerd | Apr 29, 2008 9:51:51 PM
Jake - I am sure there are far more important things going on in Washington that the people must talk about. Why are you reducing the national discourse to the low level of comments we see here. It almost seems like you threw a bone to a pack of hyenas... if you fellows in the MSM can get people to comment on everything from the war to healthcare to sub-prime mortgages the way you have them chewing on Wright-Obama, this country won't be in the trouble it is.
Posted by: SelfishGene | Apr 29, 2008 9:51:02 PM
to K: Stop drinking the kool aid..Hillary is very close in NC..within 4 points plus she has a double digit lead in Indiana and then KY, WV , Puerto Rico and BINGO.
Posted by: Antonn | Apr 29, 2008 9:49:47 PM
Man,
I can't believe that so many people buy into Hillary's swift boat like attacks on Obama. Am I the only one that doesn't want to see Bill and Monica getting down in thw Whitehouse again.
Posted by: Miguel | Apr 29, 2008 9:49:12 PM
Last week, all of Obama's appologists were engaging in the talking point that said "If anyone would listen to Wright's entire sermon, they would know it wasn't racist".
Where are those people hiding now?
Posted by: Aston | Apr 29, 2008 9:47:57 PM
1st-timevoterforobama writes:
"I can't believe how people are accusing [Obama] of playing the race card when he's not black enough to claim black and not white enough to be called white."
Aside from his hardly-unique birthday suit, Obama was raised by well-to-do white people and fancy prep schools.
But congratulations: even a broken clock is right twice a day.