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Mercnbeth -> RE: Wright, NAACP (4/30/2008 4:23:29 PM)
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~ Fast Reply ~ Senator Obama March 18, 2008 - Philadelphia PA: quote:
That has been my experience at Trinity. Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety – the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.
And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions – the good and the bad – of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.
I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. 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. Source: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59257
Senator Obama April 29, 2008 Press Conference; Washington D.C.
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I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened over the spectacle that we saw yesterday. Obviously, whatever relationship I had with Reverend Wright has changed. I don't think he showed much concern for me. More importantly, I don't think he showed much concern for what we're trying to do in this campaign. What became clear to me is that he was presenting a world view that contradicts who I am and what I stand for. And what I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing.
Anybody who knows me ... knows that I am about trying to bridge gaps, and I see the commonality in all people.His comments were not only divisive and destructive, I believe they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate.
Source: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/NEWS15/804300383
Wonder how he would respond to what his grandmother spoke at the National Press Club? She can't be too confident at this point can she? The impact: quote:
"Newsweek" found that more than 40 percent of the voters formed a negative opinion of Obama after Wright's speech. The Obama campaign staff sent Susan Rice, its top representative, to television networks in order to respond. She said that Wright's address did not reflect the candidate's position. Apparently, the black pastor was not moved. It was not in his job description, he said, to debate the petty thoughts of politicians. Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=979089&contrassID=25&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=1&listSrc=Y&art=1
That leaves only 60% with a positive opinion. He needs to hope he doesn't lose any more and see him favorably to Senator McCain on every other issue.
The 'pundits' reaction quote:
How can the man we heard deliver that speech in July 2004 about what unites us—in which his strongest line was "in the blue states we worship an awesome God"—how could that Barack Obama have attended the church of that Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years? And not just attended: He and his wife contributed more than $20,000 to the church. It just doesn't add up. It undercuts Obama's very appealing theme of bridging divisions in our society. Source: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/barone/2008/4/30/obama-is-throwing--wright-under-the-bus.html
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The Washington Post, in an editorial, writes, "It seems to us that the whole sorry episode raises legitimate questions about his judgment. Given the long and close relationship between Mr. Obama and the Rev. Wright, voters will ask: How could Mr. Obama have been surprised by the Rev. Wright's views? How could he not have seen this coming? ... At a media availability at an airport Monday afternoon, he displayed none of the anger and sorrow that etched his face in North Carolina one day later." Source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_080430.htm
'Clinton Conspiracy Theory' quote:
Robert Bauer, a lawyer for Sen. Barack Obama's Democratic presidential campaign, is seen in his law firm office in Washington after filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on behalf of the Obama campaign Wednesday, April 30, 2008. The complaint accuses the pro-Clinton American Leadership Project of violating campaign finance laws by running ads against Obama. Source: http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/obama-tries-to-move-past-pastor-flap/20080429144709990001
It is difficult to imagine that the Democratic party will go to 'war' in November with the Senator as their standard-bearer.
WOW!
Who the F*ck is there to vote for!?
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