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Obama & the Rev. Wright

Mike

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If Obama Was So Troubled by Wright's Words... Why Keep Bringing His Daughters?
National Review ^ | March 18, 2008 | Jim Geraghty



Here's the fly in the ointment for Obama's explanation that he heard "remarks that could be considered controversial" and "incindiary language" and "views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike", but disagreed with them, and thus should not be judged by the electorate as somehow, perhaps partially agreeing with Jeremiah Wright's words.

To the best of our knowledge, week after week.... Obama took his daughters there.

Maybe Barack Obama could separate Wright's truly repugnant comments from the rest of what he preached. Maybe while offering no word of rebuke for his pastor, Obama was thinking, "there goes Jeremiah again." Barack and Michelle have sufficiently developed minds to evalutate Wright's claims - the government created the AIDS virus, etc. - for themselves. They could separate, as Obama put it, Wright's "profoundly distorted view of this country" from his words "about our obligations to love one another."

But could his daughters?

They're currently age seven and nine. They have, presumably, been attending Trinity United Church of Christ regularly, or at least as regularly as Obama.

Can you imagine any circumstance in which you voluntarily and regularly take your children to listen to words that are "divisive," "racially charged," exposing them to "a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel," and so on? Would you ever take your children to listen to a man call for God to damn America?

As a new dad, I can't imagine it.

Sorry, Barack. That's a bridge too far.
 

aplusmnt

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Mike said:
http://www.holysmoke.org/hs00/blackth.htm

Interesting stuff. So ironic that a black man came so close to being president and what will have cost him the highest office in the world is another black man.

People like Wright, Sharpton and Jackson probably do not want someone like Obama to be president. Once you can achieve President of the United States you can achieve anything you put YOUR mind to do. Their careers would be over.

Like a black comedian said, if Obama became president who would we blame? We can no longer blame the MAN because we are now the Man.
 

Sandhusker

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Sharpton, Jackson, etal would just denounce him as an "Uncle Tom" and keep on peddling racism - that's what puts bread on their table.
 

aplusmnt

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Sandhusker said:
Sharpton, Jackson, etal would just denounce him as an "Uncle Tom" and keep on peddling racism - that's what puts bread on their table.

Yea win or loose they will spin it to fit their agenda. If he looses to Hillary by super delegates though it will be like Christmas morning for them. Liberal politicians are always hoping for that bad news, their platform thrives on it.
 

backhoeboogie

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Sandhusker said:
Sharpton, Jackson, etal would just denounce him as an "Uncle Tom" and keep on peddling racism - that's what puts bread on their table.

Not until after the elections tho. If he got elected, they'd do their best to shame him any way they could for their causes. They'd be one upping one another in every direction.

BTW, you left out a few others.
 

Sandhusker

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backhoeboogie said:
Sandhusker said:
Sharpton, Jackson, etal would just denounce him as an "Uncle Tom" and keep on peddling racism - that's what puts bread on their table.

Not until after the elections tho. If he got elected, they'd do their best to shame him any way they could for their causes. They'd be one upping one another in every direction.

BTW, you left out a few others.

That's why I put in "etal".
 

Mike

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During rally, Al Sharpton says he's keeping support for Obama quiet
NY Daily News ^ | March 19th 2008 | ADAM SERWER and MICHAEL SAUL



The Rev. Al Sharpton is backing Barack Obama, but he's made the strategic decision to keep his support quiet.

That's the message Sharpton delivered to his flock last Saturday as he boasted of talking to Obama "two or three times a week" - and insisted the Democratic front-runner knows the rev is in his camp.

"I said, 'I'm gonna do whatever I gotta do to help you. Hillary Clinton has never done nothing for us,'" said Sharpton, recounting a conversation with Obama for his followers at his group's weekly rally.

"'I won't either endorse you or not endorse you,'" Sharpton said he told the Illinois senator as the two made their way to a Nov. 29 dinner at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem. "'But I will tell you I can be freer not endorsing you to help you and everybody else.'"

According to Sharpton, Obama protested and asked for his public support. "'No, no, no. I want you to endorse,'" Sharpton recalled Obama saying.

Sharpton told Obama that it would be better strategically for him to remain publicly neutral.

"If I endorse you, and they jump on somebody in Jena, you're going to want me not to go because the press is going to ask you what about your supporter," Sharpton said.

"Negroes just [ask], 'What, what's Sharpton gonna do,'" he explained. "If you understand strategy, you get somewhere."

An endorsement from the controversial Sharpton is a double-edged sword, impressing some voters and driving others away.

Sharpton told the Daily News yesterday he has no plans to officially endorse Obama, but admitted he's "absolutely supportive" of his White House bid.

"If people got that impression on Saturday, that is the right impression," he crowed.

Sharpton said one of the reasons he has "started discussing my private feelings is because of the disappointment I've had in the public conduct of the Clinton campaign."

He specifically cited racially tinged statements from former President Bill Clinton, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro as troubling.

Asked to explain his comment that Clinton had "done nothing for us," Sharpton said he was referring to his organization, the National Action Network, not the black community.

A spokesman for Clinton declined to comment, while an Obama spokesman refused to comment on private conversations with Sharpton.
 
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