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Palin Questions McCain Decision to Not Hit Obama on Wright
October 06, 2008 9:38 AM
Palin Questions McCain Decision to Not Hit Obama on Wright
New York Times columnist William Kristol asked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, if the campaign is hitting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for his connections to William Ayers, why wouldn't they go after his much closer connection to Rev. Jeremiah Wright?
"To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more," Palin said,
"because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that —with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up."
This comes after Palin publicly questioned another McCain campaign decision, to stop trying to full compete in Michigan.
"I want to get back to Michigan, and I want to try," Palin told Fox News' Carl Cameron. "Todd and I, we’d be happy to get back to Michigan. We’d be so happy to speak to the people there in Michigan who are hurting."
-- jpt
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Let's face it, no republican or democrat will change their vote no matter what we say here.
The reality is that McCain has come short so far and he has inherited a very large stone around his neck, the present administration and a worsening economy. It is not fair to blame the Republican administration for this mess but most people will and the people that counts, the independent voter will.
This race is over, we just have to count the votes.
Posted by: Luis Hong | Oct 7, 2008 1:39:40 PM
Obama is a poser- he is not from a traditional African-American family, he spent his formative years outside of this country, his father was not American-
this from his grandmothers wikipedia site:
On March 18, 2008, in a speech on race relations in Philadelphia in the wake of controversial videos of Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright surfacing, Obama described his grandmother:
I can no more disown him than I can 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 by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.[16]
On March 20, 2008, in a radio interview on Philadelphia's WIP (AM), Obama explained this remark by saying:
The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity - she doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know...there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society".[17][18]
Obama's use of the phrase "typical white person" was highlighted by a gossip columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and subsequently picked up by commentators on the Huffington Post blog, ABC News and other media outlets.[19][20][21][22] Several of the commentators suggested that if Hillary Clinton had used the phrase "typical black person" the public response would have been different.[19][20] In a CNN interview, when Larry King asked him to clarify the "typical white person" remark, Obama said:
Well, what I meant really was that some of the fears of street crime and some of the stereotypes that go along with that were responses that I think many people feel. She's not extraordinary in that regard. She is somebody that I love as much as anybody. I mean, she has literally helped to raise me. But those are fears that are embedded in our culture, and embedded in our society, and even within our own families, even within a family like mine that is diverse.[22]
Madelyn Dunham apparently did not express these views in public. Dennis Ching, who worked with her for more than 40 years, "never heard her say anything like that. I never heard her say anything negative about anything. And she never swore." Hawaiian State Senator Sam Slom, who worked with her at the Bank of Hawaii, said "I never heard Madelyn say anything disparaging about people of African ancestry or Asian ancestry or anybody's ancestry." [4]
Posted by: lorie | Oct 7, 2008 1:33:53 PM
further- to whomever says that relationships do not matter, I am sorry- MY past/present relationships/associations do not matter-YOUR past and present relationships/associations do not matter BUT the relationships and associations of a presidential candidate DO matter. I do not want some extremists making decisions for me, whether it be in Congress or the White House.... and you are right, this should not be about race, if you happen to be African-American- you don't have to vote for Obama because he is HALF African-American... which is also played down in the media so as we forget that he is half white.
Posted by: lorie | Oct 7, 2008 1:29:38 PM
Why is it that Gov. Palin want to put Rev. Wright in play as fair game in slinging mud at Sen. Obama,But her witch-hunting rev. Muthee is not all all someone we should be questioning,after it is the rev.Muthee who laid hands on her while at her church of 22years she being a member of lets look into her religous beliefs and background, I'll bet what you find is for mor shocking than the ranting and raving the Rev. Wright spewed of which Sen. Obama has more than once repudiated. What has Palin done to distance herself from this self proclaimed WITCH-HUNTER hmmmm maybe it's because she is actually the witch in which he was trying to get rid of,lets look a lot deeper into her unknown background as well maybe you Republicans want find her so appealing after all. She can sling mud but can't take it, my suggestion to her is stop being a potty mouth for McCain cause in the she is also in the minority when it comes to this white male dominated republican party. Get a grip Sarah and chill, you are being used by a womanizer and cheater oh did I forget to mention he is also a traitor according to his fellow POW inmates, so before you go slinging mud LOOK in your own back yard and I assure you it want be Russia you see.
Posted by: James | Oct 7, 2008 1:22:29 PM
your pastor is a close entity (alliance) if not why was Barrack in church? He doesn't listen at church? sure he did and he agreed! You cannot change your past, Obama is really trying to hide his...maybe we need to look at his friends...and yes they were part of the Obamanation and always will be, what is Barrack going to give them once he is elected...? probably is coming out of my taxes...
Posted by: truth1 | Oct 7, 2008 1:16:06 PM
This is ridiculous to read and even more ridiculous to see what people actually believe. I am voting for McCain and Palin. I want someone that represents me in Washington, not someone that is a first generation American who has ties to unscrupulous people. Yes- some of you no nothings Sarah Palin DID say she was NEVER involved in a party that wanted to secede from the Union (what is this 1862?)and has always been a republican. Obama has had the voice in the Senate for two years and they haven't gotten anything done- your liberal democrats in Congress.... so blame the lenders, blame the congress and blame the American's that signed their name on the dotted line when they shouldn't have. everyone needs to take responsibility including your new jesus- Obama- if it looks like a snake acts like a snake and talks like a snake- IT IS A SNAKE!
Posted by: lorie | Oct 7, 2008 1:13:43 PM
John McCain is for all people; however, he voted against the MLK Jr. National Holiday bill twice. I don't think so. How man non-minorities are working in key positions in his campaign or in any position? Let's be real. This race is all about race and people just hate to admit it.
Posted by: g | Oct 7, 2008 12:46:48 PM
The Real Obama
By Thomas Sowell
Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his "past associations." That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against "guilt by association."
We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor care what our associates believe or say about politics.
Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason. The kind of allies you choose says something about you.
Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some of whom some serious money changed hands.
Some gave political support, and some gave financial support, to Obama's election campaigns, and Obama in turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers' money to some of them. That is a familiar political alliance-- but an alliance is not just an "association" from being at the same place at the same time.
Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America. No amount of flags on his campaign platforms this election year can change that.
Unfortunately, all that most people know about Barack Obama is his own rhetoric and that of his critics. Moreover, some of his more irresponsible critics have made wild accusations-- that he is not an American citizen or that he is a Muslim, for example.
All that such false charges do is discredit Obama's critics in general. Fortunately, there is a documented, factual account of what Barack Obama has actually been doing over the years, as distinguished from what he has been saying during this election campaign, in a new best-selling book.
That book is titled "The Case Against Barack Obama" by David Freddoso. He starts off in the introduction by repudiating those critics of Obama who "have been content merely to slander him-- to claim falsely that he refuses to salute the U.S. flag or was sworn into office on a Koran, or that he was born in a foreign country."
This is a serious book with 35 pages of documentation in the back to support the things said in the main text. In other words, if you don't believe what the author says, he lets you know where you can go check it out.
Barack Obama's being the first serious black candidate for President of the United States is what most people consider remarkable but how he got there is at least equally surprising.
The story of Obama's political career is not a pretty story. He won his first political victory by being the only candidate on the ballot-- after hiring someone skilled at disqualifying the signers of opposing candidates' petitions, on whatever technicality he could come up with.
Despite his words today about "change" and "cleaning up the mess in Washington," Obama was not on the side of reformers who were trying to change the status quo of corrupt, machine politics in Chicago and clean up the mess there. Obama came out in favor of the Daley machine and against reform candidates.
Senator Obama is running on an image that is directly the opposite of what he has been doing for two decades. His escapes from his past have been as remarkable as the great escapes of Houdini.
Why much of the public and the media have been so mesmerized by the words and the image of Obama, and so little interested in learning about the factual reality, was perhaps best explained by an official of the Democratic Party: "People don't come to Obama for what he's done, they come because of what they hope he can be."
David Freddoso's book should be read by those people who want to know what the facts are. But neither this book nor anything else is likely to change the minds of Obama's true believers, who have made up their minds and don't want to be confused by the facts.
Posted by: important | Oct 7, 2008 12:40:22 PM
I find it amazing that there is no little coverage of the Palin rally where she talked about Obama and Ayers over a chant of "Kill Them" "Kill Him" Doesn't the first amendment have some taboos about inciting to riot or commit murder?
If an Obama rally chanted "KIll Him" talking about McCain, it would be lynching time!
I am getting a little tired of the double standard.
As for Ayers, anyone who has dealt with education reform in Illinois in the past thirty years has dealt with Ayers. Want some pictures of him with a couple of republican governors, senators, etc., republican secretary of education?
Incidentally the project that Ayers and Obama workedon was funded by -----A REPUBLICAN!
Is character counts, ask McCain why he turned tail and ran after precipitating a major fire on the Forrestal. Everyone else, pilots, included, all ranks, went to pitch in on fire control after an explosion took out the first responders. All that is except McChicken who ran like the devil was after him. Talk to the deck frew of the Forrestal if you want to hear the real story of his Navy service. (You can only stand so many references to Admiral Daddy.....)
Can't we talk about issued for a while?
Posted by: Annie | Oct 7, 2008 11:59:05 AM
" I question the patriotism of both Sarah and Todd Palin. It's no secret that Alaskan's have no respect for those of us who live in the ‘lower 48‘. But the part that really troubles me is the assoication and membership that both Sarah and Todd have in the Alaska Independant Party which calls for Alaska to secede from the United States.
AIP founder, Joe Vogler has made the following comments regarding seceding and the United States in general:
"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government," and "And I won't be buried under their damn flag,"
Sarah and Todd Palin have never repudiated or distanced themselves from those statements.
Posted by: PhilBgood | Oct 7, 2008 11:54:06 AM
How does this woman who is presently under investigation... who along with her husband and employees have all ignored legal subpoenas, lied about her involvement in the bridge to nowhere... shows off her ignorance in interviews, has a pastor who not only believes in with-craft but laid his hands on Palin driving out all with craft spells from her and her campaign... have the nerve to talk about Obama...
Woman !.. go cleanse thyself first...
Posted by: nerakami | Oct 7, 2008 11:26:25 AM
Does John McCain really think he can appear honorable while Ms. Lipstick trashes her way around the country? Whose campaign is this, anyway?
Posted by: Colorado Dem | Oct 7, 2008 11:19:02 AM
Dear Bob:
Sorry to said that you and Keith Obberman need to get the head out of "the dark place" isaffecting your brain. Go ahead, vote for Obama and remember the parrot in the ship, I'm going down but you are going with me meaning, we all sink!!!
You guys are all talk about republicans but are you forgetting that the Senate's majority are democrats????
Please, make sure that the blame is placed equally.
Posted by: ml | Oct 7, 2008 11:18:09 AM
McCain slapped the American women in the face when he sided with his counterparts in choosing Palin as his VP of choice. Now he and she are using "racist tactics" and false statements to put Obama and his family in harms way.
McCain is suppost to be an American Patriot and yet he comes off now looking like "Hitler" in disguise with Palin as his SPOKESPERSON!! Allowing comments from Palin to achieve "lets kill him threats" was beyond what someone running for President of The United States should have done!!
Palins disagreements with McCain now should be a bullseye to what she would do if elected VP of this great country.
She even calls Americans "joe sixpacks". Shes an insult to women across America, and her trying to sound like one "daisy duke" with her fake smile, is another insult to us country gals across the USA!! If this is what McCain and Palin have in store for us if elected, we all need to start packing now!!
How many people realize now that McCain voted for the Bailout because it had an earmark in it for Palin? Tax breaks for Alaskan Fishermen!! Shame on McCain!!
Posted by: CatMWorrilow, TN | Oct 7, 2008 11:00:41 AM
Sarah...prepare to pack your bags and move back to Alaska and improve your foreign relations with Russia.
When this is over...you'll be long forgotten GOP bait. They used you big time.
Posted by: Aurora Fam | Oct 7, 2008 10:56:40 AM
brenda s - Get over it. Obama will win by a landslide.
Let's get this show on the road people. Make sure you vote!
Obama 08
Posted by: Tanya | Oct 7, 2008 10:52:06 AM
Sarah... Is that all you got??? Try again!
Obama 08
Solid as a Rock
Posted by: Tanya | Oct 7, 2008 10:49:10 AM
McCain's mentors: Bush/Cheney/Charlie Black/Phil Graham.
Posted by: newz4i | Oct 7, 2008 10:44:54 AM
I am tired of the campaign ,But extremely tired of Obama,He believes in Obama,He is associated with Kenya and terrorists,How far have we fallen,and who lies are we going to believe,He will destroy this country,like lambs to the slaughter,He has no experience,Palin has more experience than him,This election is not about popularity,you should keep in mind ,
the hateful comments of his wife,she has no associations,or love for this country,Obama ties lay elsewhere too,We have only so much time to make our minds up,And much time to pay if there is a wrong choice made,MCcain has more experience in government,and i think the true Spirit of country,and for Palin I think she would fight for this country too,not a time to get wishy washy,and let our ideals slide by,
Help Mccain,Palin to bring back the strength in this country.
Posted by: brenda s | Oct 7, 2008 10:44:30 AM
The pastor that prayed over Sarah was a visiting pastor form Africa where witchcraft is still practiced today this was not her pastor of 20 years unlike Obama’s.The church he attended for 20 years is as radical and anti white as is gets just read. THE BLACK VALUE SYSTEM
Posted by: Real Story | Oct 7, 2008 10:43:11 AM
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