Wright story just now breaking on Inside Edition.....

[BlackVelvet04]

it ain't pretty.

[K Gardner]

1. OMG.. breaking news ! Another pastor with controversial statements !!!! this is HUGH !!11!!

[MadBadger]

2. honestly, I have not seen one story on it today. MSNBC seems to be focusing on Ferraro again, but

I havent seen mention of Wright.

[BlackVelvet04]

It was just on Inside Edition. n/t

[no name no slogan]

92. I won't believe it until it hits the Enquirer or the Star

After all, Inside Edition is the TV equivalent

[rodeodance]

96. ckk out abc website.

[redstate_democrat]

142. CLICK ON THIS ------>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVaEuE90ifg


Controversial? :rofl:

[JimGinPA]

124. LOL

:rofl:

[saracat]

10. ABC and CNN have both done pieces on it.

[amandabeech]

11. CNN went with a mild version.

They didn't show "God **** America" or Rev. Wright mating with the rear of the pulpit. Wolf and company also warned again and again that some might find the excerpts of Rev. Wright's sermond offensive.

I'm home recovering from the flu, and I didn't see any mention of this on MSNBC, either.

[cooolandrew]

20. I think folks should call in it's clear race baiting and we need mo more this year really.

[JoFerret]

40. Call the GOP and its surrogates

...and get them signed on to this agreement.

[rodeodance]

75. since a Black pastor said it about WHITE America--what kind of race-baiting is that ?

[durrrty libby]

131. Race baiting by Pastor Wright. He's a real ass-wipe

[durrrty libby]

129. Dan Abrams did a segment on it.

[TomInTib]

42. I still don't know what the hell is going on.

That's the problem with waking at 10a.m. on the West Coast.

By the time I wake up, everything has already happened.

All I know is some Black preacher must have said something that someone sunk their fangs into.

[rodeodance]

61. send in your Jesus/Obama avatar--they might do a story on it???

[GoldieAZ49]

111. you will see it on MSNBC they will have to start covering it by tomorrow

while they may be in the bag for Obama if they have any credibility the will run it, a mild version to be sure

Chris will have shivers down his leg at the thought of having to run it

[ruggerson]

114. Don't hold your breath

MSNBC is like a soviet news agency. You're only shown what they want you to see.

[ruggerson]

121. I was wrong - Dan Abrams is covering it

[jackson_dem]

127. Of course General Electric will ignore this right now

ABC, Inside Edition (CBS), and Fox have all covered it and it should only spread. I bet it will be in the papers soon.

[MadBadger]

128. So one reputable news source so far.

[jackson_dem]

130. Yes. Let's see what happens tomorrow

Or maybe Anderson Cooper will cover it tonight.

Even if it isn't used now it damn well will be in the general if we nominate Wright's protege.

[laugle]

146. Hannity is playing it tonight, geez, that Faux News works fast, they just bought the tape!nt

Hannity also interviewed McCain and asked him about it, I just saw a little. Hannity tried to bait him to get nasty, but McCain said he didn't think people want that kind of thing anymore......Hannity is so full of hate, it's eating him up that he can't release it anymore.......I love it!

[saracat]

5. Funny how some candidates supporters can dish it out but some can't take it. I respect those Obama

folks who at least recognize that this is indeed a story.This is no ordinary pastor and he does have a close relationship with Obama and this is bad, If Obama is the nominee , it is way better this come out NOW, and be dealt with.this has been whispered about for months.

[scheming daemons]

12. Whispered? Hannity has talked about nothing else on his show for several weeks....

...

[saracat]

16. I don't watch Hannity.Apparently you do.

[Hepburn]

77. OMFG.....

...Hannity....:rofl:

So THAT'S where the Hillary supporters are getting this stupid shit! LOL

[anamandujano]

81. scheming daemons is one of yours. ROFL indeed!

[rodeodance]

91. i am laughing so hard it is hard to type

[rodeodance]

88. nope---abc news has it. silly --pay attention before you MOCK HIllary supporters.

Posted by Hepburn


...Hannity.... :rofl:

So THAT'S where the Hillary supporters are getting this stupid shit! LOL

[emilyg]

106. It's on major networks.

[K Gardner]

19. I look forward to having this DEBATE. Just not with the ignorant syncophants on THIS board. In

a perfect world, this would be something we, as democrats, could discuss logically. But thanks again for helping with the vetting process.

[JoFerret]

41. ...and I dread this debate

the only hope is that the air gets cleared. but I don't think it will.

The GOP will keep this alive through November. It is just perfect for their sick politics.

And what Hillary does or does not do is irrelevant. She can't "win" on this one any which way.

[JoFerret]

44. Which sycophants might that be?

Do you include me?

[Auntie Bush]

143. You're welcome! See, we returned the favor.

Boy look who's talking!

[grantcart]

24. I am completely happy with it. It is exactly on schedule

In a few days we will have the obligatory 'Cocaine use' and after a few more days 'Muslim' and so on. If the Clinton's think that there is anything in the works that will reverse the outcome of the elections they are even more out of touch with the electorate than I had previously thought they were. After about 3 weeks of this the PA electorate will be sick of the same old political machinations and the polls will draw close again. Clinton wins the popular vote - gains a 8 delegates and we go on and this story will have grown old and irrelevent, which of course is exactly how it should be viewed.

[GoldieAZ49]

115. not just a story Saracat

forget it, I could not vote for this guy no matter what he says to 'distance' himself

my sister and mom have dropped him to

[Auntie Bush]

144. My son is thinking about dropping him...but he hasn't yet.

He needs a little more time. A few more Wright comments might just do it.

[meow mix]

7. i know, a pastor, a pastor! ooooooooooh!!!! wow!!11

i hope they stay focused on this for a long time LOL

[dchill]

58. !!!! this is HUGH !!11!! - AND !!!!SERIES!1!!11!

This is as big as Monica Lewinsky!!! Or maybe not. It's as big as Sinbad, though!!

[4_Legs_Good]

3. Serious question: Why is this all happening today?

Hasnt' this informaiton been known for years and years?

What's up with the timing? Did someone for the first time sneak a hidden video camera into a worship service or something?

Just curious...

David

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. No, they hadn't realized that the church sells videos of the sermons

FOX bought a set, and then everyone else went, "why didn't I think of that?" and bought their own set.

Or else the Republicans are just distrbuting copies to all media outlets.

[angie_love]

13. i've gotta hand it to fox, they know how to play dirty. now if only some liberal attackdogs can find

the dirt on McCain, I know he has a few sex scandals of his own.

[Zynx]

9. People haven't really examined it until now.

[izzybeans]

15. Funny how it came in Unison here too. Especially since this is old news.

Freepers have been going at this for some time.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

22. The video dump started last night

I've always known Wright said controversial things, but I hadn't seen much video before.

FOX started showing a lot of video clips last night and they were on you-tube within minutes.

It's most likely a Republican operation. With the nomination up in the air, they really cannot wait until August to start defining Obama. It looks like they waited to see whether Hillary would be knocked out on March 4, then, realizing this thing is going to drag on, decided to commence operation Obama.

[izzybeans]

26. This stuff has been out there and it didn't use to be okay to post it here.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

33. It has always been okay to post it here.

Video just makes stories "hotter" than text.

[izzybeans]

39. No because it came from Freeper land originally. You can find it if you dare search.

They were painting Obama as a Israel/America hating radical because of this. And now its replaying here in a quite sad familiarity.

In truth, his pastor's comments are very common sentiment on the south side of chicago. That part of America has not been good to the African-American community and neither has American history.

[rodeodance]

82. have you noticed it use to be a sin to post RW stuff but some Obamafolk do it now (Drudge)

[izzybeans]

89. You know I've seen that too.

Don't like it.

It makes actual discussions hard, sort of like we found out yesterday. :)

[rodeodance]

97. agree with you.

[rodeodance]

69. ABC NEWS -CK thread downstream

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Inside Edition, eh?

Does Geraldo still have a show it can break on?

[Exilednight]

18. Geraldo has a two hour special lined up He's going to tear apart a wall and find the lost tapes.....

just like he did with Al Capone.

[Exilednight]

8. INSIDE EDITION? Wow, because that's where I get all my political news......

from Inside Edition, or otherwise known as tv guide for dummies.

[BlackVelvet04]

17. I don't watch it for political news, either.......

it's on after the news and before anything else worth watching comes on so I heard they were running the story and watched.

of course you are waaaaaaaaay too sophisticated, I'm sure, to watch something so lowly, but the point is, it was on and it wasn't pretty.

[rodeodance]

62. NASTY--calling its viewrs 'dummies" SHAME ON YOU.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

14. TEXT:

Reverend Jeremiah Wright is Barack Obama's outspoken pastor and someone the Democratic frontrunner has called his spiritual mentor.

Now Reverend Wright is facing a storm of controversy over a 2003 sermon that's just coming to light.

"God bless America. No, no, no, Goddamn America...that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," said the pastor in his sermon nearly five years ago.

Those remarks are included in a DVD set of Wright's sermons delivered at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and sold on their website.

Wright made another sermon just five days after the September 11th terrorist attacks that read: "We are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Last year, Obama's church gave its Jeremiah Wright "Man of the Year" award to controversial nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan.

Obama immediately criticized the award and has denounced and rejected Farrakhan's views.

Wright announced his retirement last month. He was Obama's pastor for the last 20 years, and the Illinois senator's book "Audacity of Hope" is even titled after one of Wright's sermons.

Obama has often said that he disagrees with what his aides call Wright's "inflammatory rhetoric," saying on one occasion, "I don't think my church is particularly controversial."

An Obama spokesman talking with Good Morning America has said that Obama has repudiated any anti-American sentiments made by his preacher. "I think it's wrong to hold any political figure to the views of his pastor," continued the spokesman.

On FOX News' Hannity and Colmes, commentator Jeanine Pirro said, "I would venture a guess that a lot of people go to their churches or synagogues, don't agree with everything their preachers say."

A spokesman for Obama said the candidate doesn't think of the pastor in political terms, and adds that Obama "deeply disagrees" with some of the things the pastor has said.

http://www.insideedition.com/news.aspx?storyID=1429

[K Gardner]

21. People have been posting about something he said FIVE years ago? Obama has been asked and has

answered inquiries. I'm still trying to find the beef.

[rodeodance]

70. too bad.

[K Gardner]

105. Are you drinking again tonight? Too bad? Back to 5-year-old juvenile responses.

[anamandujano]

120. She's been debating you guys too much.

[4_Legs_Good]

25. OMG! The first time anyone EVER said 9/11 was chickens coming home to roost!!!

Wow!

Geesh!!! I can't believe it.

That maybe we created OBL, and we're suffering from it.
Maybe that we created Saddam Hussein, and then we suffered for it.

Geesh, one might almost call that Blowback. Why has nobody ever considered this before!?!?!?

David

[MojoMojoMojo]

49. How can you possibly attend sermans for twenty years and not share the views of your preacher?

"God Damn America" is not only a polical statement.It is a religious statement at the same time.
You simply dont attend if you dont agree.
My parents have attended the same denomination church as Obama's ,The United Church of Christ, for 70 years.It is a very liberal denomination.They have gay members and I believe preachers, and it is multiracial.
If they didnt agree with what the preacher said at any time , they would no longer attend.
This isnt going away until November.

"An Obama spokesman talking with Good Morning America has said that Obama has repudiated any anti-American sentiments made by his preacher. "I think it's wrong to hold any political figure to the views of his pastor," continued the spokesman."

[KoKo]

71. I wonder about that, too...having left three churches because I didn't agree with Parishoners!

But, from what I understand this is THE CHURCH for folks in Obama's Chicago District....so since he's a Politico...it would seem he feld comfortable there. I'm not a politician...but couldn't stand the RW'ers that I had to be around in three churches. They were "In Your Face" and not working for "good of the community" but to convert me to BUSH!

[Laurab]

112. That's bullshit - think of the Catholic Church.

Think of no divorce, no birth-control, no abortion, no pre-marital sex, et al. Do you honestly think all the people who attend Catholic Church practice what the church (and sermon), preaches?

I can answer that for you. The majority probably doesn't agree - yet they still attend. The Priest might say something they disagree with, and they just let that slide, as well. It's their church, they attend, and then they go home and live their lives exactly the way they want to live them, making their own decisions.

I don't believe in any organized religion anymore, but I'm what you'd call a recovering Catholic. When I DID attend church, it was not to be told how to think or feel - it was about God and worship. The sermon was, in my opinion, the opinion of the Priest - nothing more, nothing less. I took what I could use, and left the rest behind.

Preachers and Priests have opinions, and they do express them. If everyone who didn't agree with their opinion at one time or another, left the church, there would be a whole lot of empty churches.

This bullshit has nothing to do with Obama and anyone with half a brain should understand that.

[scheming daemons]

23. LOL... Inside Edition? I bet it's in the National Enquirer too....

.....

[rodeodance]

84. abc Website has it now-------Wright saying the US responsible for 9/11

[wndycty]

27. I love it when DUers root for manufactured racial controversies to tear down. . .

. . .a Democrat.

[BlackVelvet04]

28. If that's what you think it's about you aren't paying

attention....which doesn't surprise me.

[Exilednight]

30. It's exactly what this is about, but hey, whatever eases your conscience.

[BlackVelvet04]

51. No, it's not.......

he's unvetted and this kind of thing will guarantee 4 years of President McCain.

[Exilednight]

55. He's just as vetted as Hillary is.

[BlackVelvet04]

134. Obviously NOT. n/t

[wndycty]

43. The folks on DU up in arms posting on it every minute have Hillary avatars. . .

. . .we all know what it is about. The Hillary folks manufacturing outrage to try to keep it close.

[BlackVelvet04]

52. Yeah, the Hillary supporters here control

Inside Edition. It was on Good Morning, America, this morning as well and we control that, too. :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

This kind of thing is what will guarantee 4 years of President McCain. But, you go ahead and stick your head in the sand and pretend nobody else is paying attention...it's just us Hillary supporters on D.U.

[rodeodance]

93. ck out the abc website also-------

[styersc]

45. Watch this video and tell me if this is the sort of comment that

you would expect Hillary to denounce if this was her pastor.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hAYe7MT5BxM&hl=en

[Riverman]

29. People For People!

[Leo 9]

31. The Right-Wing Project to Cast Obama as a Muslim and Anti-Semite

The Right-Wing Project to Cast Obama as a Muslim and Anti-Semite

By Ari Berman, The Nation. Posted March 13, 2008.


He's been defended by AIPAC on his Israel views, made it clear that he's Christian, yet the media keeps swallowing right-wing lies.


He's a Muslim. He was sworn into office on the Koran. He doesn't say the Pledge of Allegiance. His pastor is an anti-Semite. He's a tool of Louis Farrakhan. He's anti-Israel. His advisers are anti-Israel. He's friends with terrorists. The terrorists want him to win. He's the Antichrist.


By now you've probably seen at least some of these e-mails and articles about Barack Obama bouncing around the Internet. They distort Obama's religious faith, question his support for Israel, warp the identity and positions of his campaign advisers and defame his friends and allies from Chicago. The purpose of the smear is to paint him as an Arab-loving, Israel-hating, terrorist-coddling, radical black nationalist. That picture couldn't be further from the truth, but you'd be surprised how many people have fallen for it. The American Jewish community, one of the most important pillars of the Democratic Party and US politics, has been specifically targeted . What started as a largely overlooked fringe attack has been thrust into the mainstream -- used as GOP talking points, pushed by the Clinton campaign, echoed by the likes of Meet the Press host Tim Russert. Falsehoods are repeated as fact, and bits of evidence become "elaborate constructions of malicious fantasy," as the Jewish Week, America's largest Jewish newspaper, editorialized.


What floods into one's inbox these days bears little or no relation to Obama's record. "Some of my earliest and most ardent supporters came from the Jewish community in Chicago," he has said. Obama ran for the Senate promising to help reconstitute the black-Jewish civil rights coalition. His first foreign policy speech of the campaign was before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), where he pledged "clear and strong commitment to the security of Israel." He has occasionally angered pro-Israel hawks by urging direct negotiations with Iran and Syria, but Obama's foreign policy record is well within the Democratic Party mainstream. He's committed to a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, supported Israel's incursion into Lebanon in 2006 and has criticized Hamas. During his campaign for the presidency, Obama has been defended by AIPAC, the neoconservative New York Sun and The New Republic's Marty Peretz, a noted Israel hawk. And yet no defense of Israel by Obama -- or of Obama by the pro-Israel establishment -- seems to be enough. "When one charge is disproved, another is leveled," says Rabbi Jack Moline, who leads a synagogue in Alexandria, Virginia.


It's nearly impossible to decipher where the smears originated . The Jewish Telegraphic Agency traced one e-mail back 200 people before it stopped with a filmmaker in Tel Aviv who didn't receive a return address. "No one knows if it's the Clintons, a rogue agent or a Rove agent," says Congressman Steve Cohen, a Jewish Obama backer who represents a largely black district in Memphis. Likely it's a combination of the three.


snip

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/79627/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5065378&mesg_id=5065378

[otohara]

32. You Must Be Thrilled

finally something that will stick, or not!

[rodeodance]

72. throw those noodles up against the wall

[elixir]

34. Thanks, BV04, this will get traction.

[cali]

50. hillbots are so pathetic

and no, it probably won't.

[NMMNG]

79. Correction. It *has* traction

Slate

NYT

ABC News

Then of course there are all of the RW sources (the one many of those so-called "crossover voters" read). They're running one variation or another of Obama's Church Hates America.

The shit has hit the fan.

[Megahurtz]

122. Uh huh, sure

:eyes: something that someone else said will be pinned on Obama as if he said it.

People are smart.:sarcasm:

[Orangepeel]

35. I saw it. Wright looked like a kook, but it wasn't bad for Obama

Wright came across as a senile old fool, but at least everyone who saw it will know Obama's a Christian. :D

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

57. Yup, it's gonna backfire. Makes Hillary look desperate and petty.

[anamandujano]

99. Yup, every time Obama steps in shit it makes Hillary look desperate and petty.

Good luck with that.

[BlackVelvet04]

135. Hillary had nothing to do with it.....

grow up.

[Joe the Revelator]

36. On INSIDE EDITION, that hotbed of breaking news????

Oh noes!!!!

[kid a]

37. Is Inside Edition still on? Isn't that where Bill O came from?? nt

[Nitrogenica]

38. Igged.

[Yurovsky]

46. I'm sure the folks at Entertainment Tonight are pissed at being scooped...

:rofl:

[rocktivity]

47. INSIDE EDITION????

I'm sure it will be very fair and balanced companion piece to the coverage they gave Gerry Ferraro!"

:rofl:
rocknation

[GarbagemanLB]

48. Was it before or after the latest Britney news?

[Scurrilous]

53. Inside Edition?

:rofl:

[MojoMojoMojo]

54. You are all to elite to watch Inside Edition or read National Enquirer.But I assure you the voting

public sees those a lot more than anything else.

[BlackVelvet04]

56. Exactly....

the "laughing" is merely whistling through the graveyard.

[dchill]

98. Maybe Hillary should book more time...

with Debbie Norville! And buy full-page ads in the National Enquirer. Then inquiring minds like yours would know! It's all your-kind-of-truth all the time.

[anamandujano]

103. Yeah, cause Hillary wrote Wright's sermons and forced Obama to

be mentored by him.

She's all powerful. (That's one of the reasons I want her as Pres.)

[dchill]

108. If only she could have.

[karmicglee]

59. Pastor-gate: Nothing on NY Times website, or Washington Post, or CNN, or Politico

And some wonder who the media roots for.

[rodeodance]

63. FRONT page on ABC

[Scurrilous]

67. ABC has a front page?

Above or below the fold?

[rodeodance]

74. Screen view.

[dchill]

60. Is there something un-Democratic about free speech?

I am not black, but I can understand the feelings behind Pastor Wright's diatribe. And I will defend to the death his right to say it. This is really no big deal to anyone but those who already hated Wright OR Obama by dint of the color of their skin, and would not have voted for him anyway. Think about it. God DAMN Amurika!

[MojoMojoMojo]

90. God damn America will be the most offensive comment EVER SPOKEN

in the eyes of a very high percentage of Americans.I imagine death threats to Wright may start to occur.I can just see throngs of protesters gathering on Sunday.
Mainstream Americans are not going to like this one bit.

[dchill]

95. "I imagine death threats to Wright ..."

Only in your dreams. Shame. Used to be just Democrats around here.

[MojoMojoMojo]

133. Rush Limbaugh has the story .His listeners are nuts.

Try an experiment ,Go into one of those huge ass Texas bars and scream God Damn America until everyone hears you.
Or say it to some Marines.
Even say it to a room full of Democrats and you will least be spit on.

[dchill]

147. "say it to a room full of Democrats"

What would you know about that? "Rush Limbaugh has the story .His listeners are nuts. " I didn't know that. I'm not a listener. Keep us updated though.

[MojoMojoMojo]

150. Fuck off zombie,I saw the Rush Limbaugh link on google news

[dchill]

151. Be nice, now.

What would your mom say?

[GoldieAZ49]

125. He has the right to hold those views, Obama has the right to choose him as his

spiritual adviser and American have the right to not vote for a candidate that choose a racist American hating minister to be his spiritual adviser for 20 years.


Thanks but no thanks, they are free to continue on

[DeadEyeDyck]

64. Next week this is old news

Best thing that could happen for Obama. This story will run its course and be dead before the PA primary. If he didn't push this to the surface, he should have.

One thing about us Americans is that we bore easy.

[MojoMojoMojo]

78. The swiftboaters will not let anyone forget.You will hear "GOD DAMN AMERICA"

every day until November

[blm]

65. Not nearly as attractive as closed government is to you, eh?

.

[rodeodance]

66. ABC--has story on Wright now.--here

ABC--has story on Wright now.--here

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788&page=1

[rodeodance]

68. HEADLINE: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788&page=1

Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11
Obama's Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Has a History of What Even Obama's Campaign Aides Say Is 'Inflammatory Rhetoric'


The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's south side, has a long history of what even Obama's campaign aides concede is "inflammatory rhetoric," including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own "terrorism."



..

An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright's sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans.

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said in a 2003 sermon. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

In addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001 that the United States had brought on al Qaeda's attacks because of its own terrorism.

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.

[Megahurtz]

126. This will probably actually get Obama more votes.

:rofl:

[Honeycombe8]

145. You're not facing reality if that's what you really think. n/t

[rodeodance]

73. and # 5~~~~

[dchill]

102. You're actually creaming right now, aren't you rodie?

:eyes:

[pdxmom]

76. Driving home today, scanning through the 3 major RW hate radio stations,

I was able to hear pieces of Rev. Wright's sermons on every one. So these have been shopped out and it's obviously the RW talking point of the day. Congratulations to all here who have contributed to the RW slime machine. I'm sure the check is in the mail.

[NMMNG]

80. Congratulations Jeremiah A, Wright

He brought this on himself, and Obama. Go talk to him.

[pdxmom]

107. Wright has been senior pastor at that church since 1972. You think that

suddenly, today, everyone in the world suddenly discovered what Rev. Wright was about? You don't see that this is a viral smear, probably perpetrated by the RW?

I don't like smear politics. And it's a blanket coverage out there with obvious coordination.

[NMMNG]

118. From what I heard it was put on TV and YouTube by the RW

But Wright himself made the statements and allowed them to be videotaped in the first place so he has nobody to blame but himself for the repercussions. It's not a "smear campaign" if they're only putting the truth out there for people to see.

[MojoMojoMojo]

101. Hillary supporters are not contributing.Obama has baggage that the RW

will use.Deal with it but dont blame Hillary.

[pdxmom]

109. I have never blamed Hillary. I strongly believe she has nothing to do with

this. As I said, I believe it's a RW smear job.

[AX10]

83. Obambots don't want to know of this.

The responses to this thread are telling of that.

[dchill]

113. Actually, we don't see it as a problem.

But thanks for caring!

[oviedodem]

85. Gee McCain has 2 nut evangelicals ENDORSING him in public and he has

not even has gone any near as far as Obama has in detaching himself.

Sadly, little press about it.

[saracat]

132. But they aren't his pastor, nor do they pass out Farahkan awards! LOL!

[Ravy]

86. KO is ignoring it. So, it must not be a real story.

He is giving McCain hell though about someone he got an endorsement in Ohio.

[rodeodance]

94. KO is behind the times--

[anamandujano]

110. Bwhaaaaaaaaaaa! Poor Keefe, trying to hold back the coming deluge.

He thought they had all agreed to wait until Obama had clinched the nom. He got scooped. He got bamboozled. He got hornswoggled.

[cbayer]

87. As the daughter of a radically left-wing minister, i am sad to see this

being used to damage Obama. People go to a specific church for a lot of different reasons and, although the minister is generally the congregational leader, he or she does not speak for the congregation or it's members.

My father gives very fiery sermons, generally taking a stance far outside of what most people would say, in order to stimulate thought, discussion and reflection.

That being said, I do think there are many who will use this to hurt Obama and I am sad that that will happen.

I also felt that the Ferraro incident was blown way out of proportion in order to harm Clinton. These kind of personal attacks just don't fly with me.

[annie1]

100. this is going to eat him alive with ignorant whites. it'll hurt him BAD in the GE...

btwn this and lies that will come up, and farrakhan, etc. i don't agree, i don't think it should be...

"preacher says god damn america and michelle says "first time in my life proud of america" are not going to go over to well when they are being dolled out together to hurt him.

[Catherina]

117. LMAO! Ignant whites weren't going to vote for him anyway

Ignant:

Proudly, willfully ignorant. Holding up one's ignorance as a virtue, and using it as rhetorical and moral leverage. cf. Ignorance.

While ignorant implies doing or saying something foolish not knowing any better, ignant implies that the person knew damn well and chose to act foolish anyway.


Street slang ya know? So don't worry worry your pretty little head that "it'll hurt him BAD" in the GE". Smart people don't fall for the ignant manouverings of the HRC campaign and its supporters.

Half this country, believe it or not, does know shame. But then again, half the country ain't ignant.

[anamandujano]

119. There are plenty of intelligent whites who will not care for this swill.

The fact that he sat there for 20 years, speaks volumes.

Racists aside, most really try to be fair, open, caring and empathetic all the while feeling guilt from what the ancestors in America have done.

This will make many wonder why they try so hard when it falls on deaf ears and why they want to keep punishing themselves for what others have done. You can only heap so many insults upon a group.

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

104. ITs pretty to you. You love this kind of negative stuff.

It brings you joy to post about this stuff.

[Catherina]

123. In all fairness to Clinton supporters

They don't have anything else.

Here, have a shot of vodka ;)

[Megahurtz]

116. Such Utter Ridiculousness.

:eyes: Obama's Pastor says something (which is true BTW) and they try to pin it on Obama as if he has control of whatever comes out of another person's mouth.

I hope people will see through this idiocy and this cheap stunt will turn around in Obama's favor!

[BlackVelvet04]

136. Yeah, sure.....

whistling through the graveyard.

[1776Forever]

137. I know nothing will change your mind on this but I would like everyone to read this link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5068087&mesg_id=5068087

[BlackVelvet04]

138. What are you talking about? change my mind

about the show being on t.v.? I've expressed no opinion about the info in your OP.

I want to say that I don't disagree with everything Wright has said...but you don't go around saying God Damn America...not as an American and ESPECIALLY not as a Christian. That is the antithesis of everything Christian.

Wright comes across as an American hating, white hating kook and that's not going to go over well with much of America. Obama can't distance himself because Wright has been his MENTOR for 20 years, and quite frankly Michelle Obama comes across sounding, to a lesser degree I grant you, like Wright. Her comments about not being proud of America will start making press again in relationship to what Wright is saying. If this story gets traction Obama will be unelectable in the G.E.

[1776Forever]

139. I should have said to read the link to the post I just put on - I apologize to you.

:blush:

[BlackVelvet04]

148. Ok, no problem...

I just didn't understand.

I've had insomnia and you really have to talk slow for me to get it. ;)

[JenPen98]

140. Hey I agree

This is hudge and Obama can not distance himself from this one. The media can not spinn this and if they do, this will make others mad as you know what! Funny that people say this does not matter, it does.

[Forkboy]

141. With Inside Edition on the job there's no need for us.

:thumbsup:

[struggle4progress]

149. "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice ...

... cannot sleep for ever"

Quotations on the Jefferson Memorial
http://www.monticello.org/reports/quotes/memorial.html