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Nice Try, Barry

Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:20:44 am PDT

It’s amazing what the Obamas are able to say with straight faces: Obama says public tired of hearing about his former pastor.

WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor, as they sought to put the controversy that has rocked his presidential campaign to rest.

“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC’s “Today” show.

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1 laZardo  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:21:39am

That's gonna win him back a few points...

2 Fo knee ix  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:22:12am

Heh. Conjure the Waffle.

3 jcm  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:22:52am

They why did you listen for 20 years Michelle?

4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:23:13am
“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said

I disagree, I could listen to this for months and months.

5 bosforus  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:23:34am

Does the Obama camp really think the public has no notion of 'conflict of interest'? How about if WE decide when it's time to stop talking about you, not you.

6 Cartman  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:23:53am

Wrong, Barry. We're just plain tired of you. Period.

7 NoSubmission  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:24:02am

I never get tired of it. I say give the stinky Rev. a 24 hr. cable show.

8 firebreather  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:24:10am

Classic narcissist. He's tired of hearing commentary about his pastor, therefore the public is tired, too.

Projection writ large.

9 EC Marm  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:24:23am

I agree, time for a moratorium until Labor Day, then break out the videos again. 24/7 WrightWingRants till Election Day. Assuming Hillary loses, which I now favor.

10 vxbush  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:24:36am

Actually, he's just tired of the truth coming out and biting him in the rear end.

11 bianchi_roadie  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:24:39am

“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said...

I guess they forgot: "... at least that's what our political campaign advisors tell us." This is a weak (late) attempt to "get ahead of the issue" and spin it your way. Way too late now. For someone who has been as smart, his campaign has repeatedly shown to be amateur hour.

12 bosforus  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:24:48am
We hear time and time again voters are tired of this

What do you expect those that support you to tell you?

13 Cartman  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:24:54am

...and you too, Michelle...

14 cblesz  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:26:44am

Once again...Mr. and Mrs. full of shit are at it again. Good Lord, I despise them.

15 firebreather  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:27:13am

I can just see the MSM's reaction if McCain attended a white supremacist church for 20 years, led by a Klansman.

But because Obama's a liberal black Democrat, he's a sacred cow.

The double-standards in American public life would fill volumes.

16 SummerSong  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:27:20am

They hear it, "time and time" again?

Sure, from each other.

17 Israel4ever  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:27:35am

bahahahahhahaa
After all of Obama's close connections with terrorists and Nation of Islam racists, at least something made an impact.

18 amphibian  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:27:50am

This reminds me of the way the Chinese government lately has been issuing statements in the name of The People. "The Chinese People believe that Tibet is and always has been Chinese, and that the Western press should not report such negative stories." Of course, they're been doing this for a long time, but it's only been getting to where I could hear it recently. Commies, both of 'em.

But, no, Barry. Actually, I remain fascinated by stories of your insane spiritual adviser of 20 years. It's been some time since I've seen him dancing and singing like Whitey, and I miss it. Hell, I've even hoarded me some corn that would otherwise have gone for ethanol, to make into popcorn.

Mmmm, popcorn!

19 Charlie Martel  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:29:11am

You know, if he doesn't get the nod, he could become a new american martyr, like JFK. Anyone else agree/disagree?

20 Izzy Dunne  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:29:22am

OK, let's move on to Rezko and Ayers, we'll come back to this when you are "refreshed".

21 ladycatnip  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:29:24am

They're too arrogant to realize that voters hate it when politicians tell us what we're thinking. Big mistake.

22 Silhouette  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:29:26am

I guess the public is just bitter about this, huh Obama?

Any more mindreading you can do?

Tell us what we think, what we feel, why we have our faith, why we will or won't vote for a person, and don't forget to tell us exactly how we will be made to "volunteer" once you are in power.

Why, we won't need to think at all.

23 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:29:29am

It's the classic strategy of repeating a lie often enough, and the public will buy it.

24 Killgore Trout  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:29:31am
25 firebreather  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:30:40am

"If you oppose Obama in this election, you're just an embittered, reactionary white racist, clinging to your guns & God..."

--Michelle Obama, Bill Moyers, Anderson Cooper, Joe Klein, et al.

26 sffilk  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:31:05am

Perhaps it's time to ask him why we should support a party that would listen to a terrorist organization like CAIR for dealing with the Islamic world?

Just a thought.

27 doppelganglander  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:31:43am

Wright is stuck to Obama like -- well, I was going to go with a literary analogy but it would probably be considered racist.

28 bosforus  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:31:44am

re: #25 firebreather

"If you oppose Obama in this election, you're just an embittered, reactionary white racist, clinging to your guns & God..."

--Michelle Obama, Bill Moyers, Anderson Cooper, Joe Klein, et al.

Fortunately, no one's going to call us racists to our faces while we're holding our guns.

29 Psaturn  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:31:54am

I am NOT tired of hearing Pastor Wright...

Anyone here tired of hearing Pastor Wright?

30 Talldude682  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:32:11am

If they are tired of hearing about Wright I guess we could talk about Ayers and the Weather Underground for a while......

31 Spiny Norman  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:32:11am

re: #8 firebreather

Classic narcissist. He's tired of hearing commentary about his pastor, therefore the public is tired, too.

Projection writ large.

In other words,

We're trying to change the damn subject and you morons aren't cooperating!

32 cblesz  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:32:34am

re: #20 Izzy Dunne

OK, let's move on to Rezko and Ayers, we'll come back to this when you are "refreshed".

Beautiful. I agree. let's move on to some of the others. What a jerkoff this guy is. If he gets elected, we are in huge trouble simply because as soon as someone disagrees with him, they will be labeled a racist. Enjoy America! Freaking dopes.

33 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:32:42am
34 bosforus  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:32:43am

re: #29 Psaturn

I am NOT tired of hearing Pastor Wright...

Anyone here tired of hearing Pastor Wright?

I'm tired of hearing Wright, I can't stand him. I'm not tired of hearing his name in the news, however. :)

35 right wing zephyr  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:32:47am

Yeah. That's why Laura Ingraham, Medved, Prager etc phone lines are lit up throughout their shows with Wright calls. and every political blog with Wright posts are topping the charts with comments and every MSM channel is covering Wright throughout the day and on and on it goes.

36 Egfrow  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:33:20am
37 Kenneth  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:33:23am

Just wondering... is Obama "left brained" or "Wright brained"?

38 jcm  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:33:25am

On to Denver...

Former DNC Chairman Joe Andrew just jumped ship from Clinton to Obama, on a conference call with Obama campaign chairman David Plouffe. Andrew led the Democrats from 1999 to 2001, just at the end of the Clinton administration.
39 Adrenalyn  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:33:47am

re: #27 doppelganglander

Wright is stuck to Obama like -- well, I was going to go with a literary analogy but it would probably be considered racist.

there is a nice southern analogy you are looking for here
let me help you:

Wright is stuck to Obama
like a fly on stink

40 jcm  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:33:52am

re: #27 doppelganglander

Wright is stuck to Obama like -- well, I was going to go with a literary analogy but it would probably be considered racist.

I think he's worn out that shovel, hand him another!

41 kirkoff  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:33:58am

No doubt we wil soon be informed it's time to "move-on" from these embarassing and personal disagreements between pastor & congregant.
Not likely.

42 Spiny Norman  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:34:03am

re: #30 Talldude682

If they are tired of hearing about Wright I guess we could talk about Ayers and the Weather Underground for a while......

Ooh! Keith Olbermann is gonna get you for that!

43 4wheel  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:34:06am

He's just giving his leftist followers ideas for talking points. After all, if you bring any of the items that are derogatory up in a debate with a liberal, the first thing they yell is"Who cares about THAT. We should be talking about the things that MATTER!". I'm sorry, but the beliefs and convictions of a person running for the presidency of this great nation absolutely matter to me.

44 cblesz  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:34:43am

Please. This is a typical political ploy. "Look over there...nothing to see here". See, Barry doesn't want any more questions about it because he is LYING! I am sure his lovely wife sat in that church applauding an nodding her head in approval...after all, we are a mean country and she is certainly not proud.

45 Ornery Ballsack  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:34:44am

Has anyone drawn the comparisons to Chris Farley's "Black Sheep"?

46 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:34:59am
"They don't want to hear about this division, they want to know what are we going to do to move beyond these issues," she said.

Let me guess- hope for change?

"And what made me feel proud of Barack in this situation is that he is trying to move us as a nation beyond these conversations that divide."

Is she admitting that the reverend's comments are divisive? Maybe you two should have thought about that 20 years ago.

47 Silhouette  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:35:11am

I guess Move On has something new they insist we move on from.

48 karmic_inquisitor  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:35:11am

FWIW -

Geraldine Ferraro was on Fox last night adding to the Potemkin theory.

She asked -

1) Why did Wright go on his press tour when he did?
2) Why would Wright add the fuel to the fire?
3) Why did Obama, only days before Wright went on his tour, say that Wright was fair game (he did so in his interview with Wallace on Fox, after having told everyone that it was all distraction a week before)?
4) Why would Obama say Wright is fair game after McCain spent political capital saying he wasn't, completely in line with what Obama had asked for the week before?
5) Why is Wright silent and hidden since the latest Obama repudiation?

As Geraldine pointed out, the timing of it all stinks and came out of right field. Yet the effect is to inoculate Obama in the fall from Wright by giving Obama a new "chance" to condemn him.

Completely orchestrated.

Barry and Michelle take us all for fools.

The issue is no longer Wright - it is how low of an opinion they have of the American voter.

49 right wing zephyr  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:35:23am

We need a catalogue/warehouse of all the frickin' Anti-American/Freedom shit Obamaites are pulling.re: #36 Egfrow

Che'nge!

We need a catalogue/warehouse of all the frickin' Anti-American/Freedom shit Obamaites are pulling.We need a catalogue/warehouse of all the frickin' Anti-American/Freedom shit Obamaites are pulling.

50 firebreather  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:35:38am

re: #31 Spiny Norman

In other words,

We're trying to change the damn subject and you morons aren't cooperating!


Their mindset comes from a bottomless sense of entitlement. As Obama told a colleague, "We're owed!" (meaning black people).

51 HBob  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:36:00am

Pathetic.

Actually I am kind of tired of hearing about his former pastor.
But I'm loving hearing Barry try squirm and wiggle his way out of this quagmire! Most entertaining and educational.
Carry on...

52 Psaturn  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:36:22am

re: #34 bosforus

You got a point.

Have you guys noticed how he said to Bill Moyers that his sermons were taken out of context and that it was all in sound bites etc?

And then at the Press Club he literally CONFIRMS what he said in those sound clips?

53 Dad O' Blondes  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:36:38am

re: #19 Charlie Martel

You know, if he doesn't get the nod, he could become a new american martyr, like JFK. Anyone else agree/disagree?

Maybe. But I think it would be delicious if the Hillary/Obama loser runs independently.
.

54 tfc3rid  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:37:31am

Crossover from the last post but the worst thing in the world that was done was keep Hillary in this race...

55 doppelganglander  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:37:54am

re: #39 Adrenalyn

there is a nice southern analogy you are looking for here
let me help you:
Wright is stuck to Obama
like a fly on stink

That one's good. I think it's still acceptable to say "like white on rice" too.

56 firebreather  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:38:14am

"Change...hope...change...hope...change...hope... "

The profundity of it all.

57 jamgarr  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:38:16am

"Pay no attention to the content of the character behind the color of the skin"

/Only slightly altered from "It's a private matter."

58 Spiny Norman  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:39:45am

re: #50 firebreather

Their mindset comes from a bottomless sense of entitlement. As Obama told a colleague, "We're owed!" (meaning black people).

The same could be said of Hillary and "Womynhood". Which is probably why the core supporters of each camp detest each other even more than they hate the "oppressive, racist, sexist, eeevil" Republicans.

59 Adrenalyn  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:39:50am

re: #55 doppelganglander

That one's good. I think it's still acceptable to say "like white on rice" too.

yeah, but rice is such nice good healthy stuff

Obama and his ilk in the Nazicrat party
really do stink

61 Silhouette  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:40:35am

This time change means change the subject. Anything but focusing on the inherent racism of his church he has freely chosen to attend for most of his adult life.

How about your Marxism? Or your ties to corruption? Or domestic terrorists?

62 Charlie Martel  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:41:22am

re: #51 HBob

Pathetic.

Actually I am kind of tired of hearing about his former pastor.
But I'm loving hearing Barry try squirm and wiggle his way out of this quagmire! Most entertaining and educational.
Carry on...

giggity giggity gee!

63 Ojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:41:29am

Yeah Michelle, you betcha I'm tired of hearing

"Naw Naw Naw, G-d Damn America"

But the corollary is, I WANT IT TO STOP.

& you probably only want us to ignore it.

How. Very. Sad.

64 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:41:45am

re: #53 Dad O' Blondes

Maybe. But I think it would be delicious if the Hillary/Obama loser runs independently.
.

Howie Dean will make them team up, shake hands, and only kill each other in private.

I guarantee that the Democrat Party will NOT dissolve over this. I guarantee that even though they love John McCain, they do not want anyone with even a weak RINO (R) behind his name in the White House, even for four years.

Let me clarify...the Party power structure may be willing to accept McCain, and let Obama try again. He's young. But their useful idiot true looney base would go berserk. The power structure owes the loons big time.

65 Egfrow  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:42:08am

re: #49 right wing zephyr

We need a catalogue/warehouse of all the frickin' Anti-American/Freedom shit Obamaites are pulling.We need a catalogue/warehouse of all the frickin' Anti-American/Freedom shit Obamaites are pulling.

Oh, it's being cataloged but it's being desperately filtered and spun by the MSM which means most average Americans won't ever see them.

66 coquimbojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:42:19am

re: #54 tfc3rid

Crossover from the last post but the worst thing in the world that was done was keep Hillary in this race...

Unless it ends up tearing the democrats apart. Other than that I agree.

67 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:42:25am
....but I think that the more difficult thing that this country is facing is trying to move politics into conversations around problems and problem-solving, and that's what we're going to be pretty determined to do," she said.

Kind of hard to have a conversation about a problem when it's demanded the subject get changed.

68 chinesearithmetic  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:42:35am

Those who'll forget the pastor are contented defeatists.

69 PeaceAtAllCosts  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:42:37am

Are there any doubts that Obama would find good old Ahmadinejad is a honest guy and someone he can do business with? I can't hear enough about Obama and his dealing with terrorists and terror sympathizers.

Obama is a Jew hater-and mark my words, will sell Israel out just as good old Georgie Bush has.

70 jaunte  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:42:43am

Obama's not doing a very good job at maintaining his "branding" as a new kind of politician who will bring us all together and heal our divisions. All the choices he's made keep jumping up and trashing that manufactured image.

71 coquimbojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:42:52am

re: #63 Ojoe

Yeah Michelle, you betcha I'm tired of hearing

"Naw Naw Naw, G-d Damn America"

But the corollary is, I WANT IT TO STOP.

& you probably only want us to ignore it.

How. Very. Sad.

Great point.

72 FrogMarch  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:43:03am

re: #54 tfc3rid

Crossover from the last post but the worst thing in the world that was done was keep Hillary in this race...

Exactly.

73 Edouard  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:43:04am

Obama is going to be hearing about this from now on. He and his imperious wife want dearly to be let off the hook for their 2-decade-long association with this nasty man, but American voters must not allow that to happen or for them to evade this issue.

74 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:43:06am

re: #60 BabbaZee

Reverend WHO?
Can't you see I am trying to eat my waffle here, you Caucasian Cretan Wombats?

I am not from Crete, although I am sure his Obamaness would think of me as a cretin.

76 winston06  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:43:17am

Yeah, Public is tired of people like Hussein O and his pastor

77 Urso1  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:43:32am

“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said. This are not the droids you're looking for (waves hand).

78 Athos  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:43:42am

re: #46 Sharmuta

Is she admitting that the reverend's comments are divisive? Maybe you two should have thought about that 20 years ago.

Oh oh, Michelle might not remain proud of this country for the first time in her adult life.....she has to find something to blame for the continued attention on Wright. Something beyond their poor judgment to listen to him for 20 years and the racist anti-American rants that Wright spews.

79 quickjustice  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:44:35am

I never tire of listening to Jeremiah Wright beating those dead horses of his, or of Obama defending Wright's right to beat his dead horses. After twenty years of listening to Wright beat his dead horses, however, what states of mind are the Obamas in? I worry.

Given that the horses are dead, however, what kind of a horse race is this, anyhow? Can we really argue about the signs of death in Wright's horses until next November? I say neigh!

80 Spiny Norman  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:44:46am

re: #54 tfc3rid

Crossover from the last post but the worst thing in the world that was done was keep Hillary in this race...

How so? Because I very seriously doubt any of this would have come out if Hillary had dropped out early. The Media would have absolutely lined up behind Barry O and would've quashed anything negative about their candidate. Now, they have a virtual train wreck to cover.

Their tabloid journalism instincts tend to override their ideological biases.

81 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:44:59am

re: #78 Athos

she has to find something to blame for the continued attention on Wright

.

There is always the Zionist entity.

82 jorline  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:45:35am

Sitting in the pew waiting for the next shoe to drop...

83 right wing zephyr  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:46:10am

re: #65 Egfrow


I spoke with a Liberal yesterday who said he was voting for Obama because he wanted "Radical Change"!

I said "Well you're gonna get that all right."

According to this loon, Among other things Obama is going to lower the gas prices at the pump. I can just see him traveling around stopping at all the gas stations, looking up at those cool white billboardy signs, stretching and using that long letter-handling stick thingy to do that.

84 jamgarr  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:46:33am

Chris Matthews is giving a commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis soon. He told KMOX radio yesterday that his speech will focus on the trend in our society to discourage quality people from entering public service because of our vindictive habit of making electoral mountains out of candidates' personal foible molehills.
Why am I not surprised?

85 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:47:33am

re: #78 Athos

Oh oh, Michelle might not remain proud of this country for the first time in her adult life.....she has to find something to blame for the continued attention on Wright. Something beyond their poor judgment to listen to him for 20 years and the racist anti-American rants that Wright spews.

I may be the only one here, but I love the prime time MSM exposure of Wright's
racism.

Racism is not a disease confined to any one ethnic group.

Racism is a disease that anyone can have.

Racism is not improved or excused coming from a minister, a Marine, a corpsman, or a member of a minority group.

86 I_Invented_Al_Gore  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:48:26am

Remember before the primaries started? Remember how it looked like a long and boring primary season?

This is the most interesting, albeit bizarre, election cycle in a long, long time.

I don't know if I'm looking forward to the convention or not, but it'll be interesting.

87 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:48:40am

re: #84 jamgarr

Chris Matthews is giving a commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis soon. He told KMOX radio yesterday that his speech will focus on the trend in our society to discourage quality people from entering public service because of our vindictive habit of making electoral mountains out of candidates' personal foible molehills.
Why am I not surprised?

I hope he can stand up for twenty minutes without being debilitated by that leg tingle or pitching a tent.

88 Mazeman  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:48:49am

Now we need to pray he gets the nomination.

Let Hillary continue to inflict damage for now, but we don't want to see her get the nod, and look like a relative "breath of fresh air". If that happens, we lose in November.

89 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:49:02am

Poor obama- no one likes his racist friend.

90 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:49:09am

re: #86 I_Invented_Al_Gore

Remember before the primaries started? Remember how it looked like a long and boring primary season?

This is the most interesting, albeit bizarre, election cycle in a long, long time.

I don't know if I'm looking forward to the convention or not, but it'll be interesting.

The coming riots will be an American disgrace.

91 Occasional Reader  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:49:19am

I hear time and time again that people are just plain tired of Adriana Lima refusing to give Occasional Reader a full body massage.

92 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:49:23am

re: #69 PeaceAtAllCosts

Are there any doubts that Obama would find good old Ahmadinejad is a honest guy and someone he can do business with? I can't hear enough about Obama and his dealing with terrorists and terror sympathizers.

Obama is a Jew hater-and mark my words, will sell Israel out just as good old Georgie Bush has.

Worse. Like Carter.

93 Killgore Trout  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:49:26am

Kos kidz are getting nervous: Reality Check Time for DKos


It's time for a reality check of where Barack Obama is in the big scheme of this election. Mathematically, he is in the driver's seat. However, in terms of driving the narrative, he has been playing defense and needs to take control. Let there be no doubt, the Wright scandal has taken its toll.

Did the campaign just jump the shark?


Ever since Monday morning I have this terrible anxiety and my stomach hurts. I feel like when the student loan people call and I can't make the payments. Everything is on a downward spiral and I don't know how to stop it. I feel like the bottom is falling out. All the numbers are going the wrong way-plummeting and plunging polls.
All the magic's gone out of the campaign. My friends won't discuss it with me they are so sad over this latest turn of events.
94 jorline  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:49:52am

Not sure who wrote it - but it makes sense.

Part One

After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President. I have always voted for the person and have not voted for anyone because some political party was telling me who I should vote for.

We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words 'money' and 'special interests' come to mind, among many others.

Here's the way I see it:

Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely liberal Senator from the State of Illinois , which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system.

You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color. As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to the entire world that we are indeed the greatest country on earth!

But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT the man for this job!

Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Right Reverend 'G-- D--- America' Jeremiah Wright. It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years. It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there.

The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people.

We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now. And you have publicly stated that this man IS your 'spiritual mentor'.

BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were disturbing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen jumping, hooting and howling to his words in the background that disturb me the most. And please don't tell me you attended church there and never once heard a 'discouraging word' in the 20 years you attended there. Don't tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling out in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades.

Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted and walked out. I am no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing.

Now YOU look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended there! This is like me telling you that I attended dozens of Klan rallies and never once heard the 'N' word. Yep. And Bill Clinton 'did not inhale'.

Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you. I am deeply sorry, that in a county teeming with enormously talented African Americans who would make a good President, that the political system has chosen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an American, who will not even salute the Flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.

95 turn  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:50:17am

Evidently O'Reilly isn't tired of it Michelle, he's coming out with some new dirt on Wright tonight. And guess what? I'm watching along with 2.3 million other people because we're never going to get tired of it.

Great point Ojoe about us wanting it to stop versus them wanting to ignore it.

96 Roger  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:50:19am

Change, Charles? Where are our dollars is what we want to know.

97 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:50:37am
Ever since Monday morning I have this terrible anxiety and my stomach hurts.

Countdown to Obamassiah Disillusionment Syndrome shrinks appearing in
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98 Cartman  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:50:40am

Dammit, where did I put my guns and my Bible?

99 right wing zephyr  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:50:43am

re: #91 Occasional Reader

I hear time and time again that people are just plain tired of Adriana Lima refusing to give Occasional Reader a full body massage.


lol. It is vital that we have this on our campaign platform.

100 jorline  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:50:59am

Part Two

Now, did I mention Bill Clinton?

AH YES! This brings us to MRS. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, who this candidate really is, in spite of all the other names she may care to call herself. This 'feminist' piece of work of course would like to be referred to as MS. and we all know who wears the pant suit in that family.

MS. Clinton, (sugar), it is just as depressing to realize that there are dozens of women who would also make great Presidents. But, fortunately, the horrible state of the selection process has selected YOU. Ms. Clinton, I'm sorry, but you could not tell the truth if we water boarded your worthless A--!

Still you play the role of the 'embarrassed but dignified noble wife'. What utter malarky! I am not voting for you for a world of reasons, but the main one is the same as my not voting for Senator Obama. You persistently insult my intelligence. It COULD be conceivably possible that you did not know about Monica Lewinsky, extremely remote, but possible if we stretch our imaginations a bit. But you turn around and then ask me to believe that you also did not know about Paula Jones and the legion of other women who were chewed up and spit out by your lecherous excuse for a husband. Puleese turn off this broken record !

But let's set aside your hubby's flagrant pecadillos. The real reason I will never vote for you is that I don't think the country can survive EIGHT MORE YEARS of Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Sandy Berger stuffing his socks with classified intelligence, Janet Reno's goon squad, and the myriad other corruptions that seem to stick to you like your ugly face. So our former President can't keep up his pants. The REAL issue is that he committed perjury under oath when he lied about it and the pathetically-attempted coverup that followed.

Like you, he is totally incapable of telling the truth. He could not do it if you tortured him, and in voting for you, we would get the BOTH of you, all over again. The same folks who could have taken out Osama Bin Laden over 3,000 dead Americans ago !

And please stop telling me that you have '8 years of experience' to lead us. You were the freakin' first lady already, not the Commander in Chief. Jeez ! The sum of your 'experience' is that of the most worrisome and incompetent meddling in the history of the White House. You even cursed your pitiful staff and the Secret Service agents who were and still are unfortunately charged with risking their lives to protect your worthless, thieving hide, and all at the expense of other people who have to work for a living.

Your single pathetic platform is to finance the illegal drugs, alcoholism and bad habits of the very lowest and most irresponsible freeloaders in America and to then 'garnish the wages' (your own words) of every law-abiding and hard-working American to pay for it. This disaster you refer to as 'Universal Health Care'. Where have you been the last 30 years? Did you not see that socialism is a failure wherever it has been tried? Did you not notice that the Soviet Union has collapsed since it gave no reward to those who worked the hardest for the fruits of their own labors to pay for those who will not?

It is interesting to see all the dead bodies that you and your hubby have left in your wake. Suicides, mysterious deaths, cover-ups that make Richard Nixon look like a rank amateur. The utter contempt and unbelievable arrogance of some of your strongest supporters, most notably the recently resigned and disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer, the epitome of hypocritical and malevolent arrogance gone wild, one of your most ardent, wealthy and powerful political supporters. A man the news media refuses to admit IS a 'super delegate' in your own political machine, a fine example of your own 'adopted' state of New York . No wonder you moved there to run for Senator ! The environment there is perfect for the likes of you !

Yes, I would vote for a woman, but I will NOT vote for YOU !

101 Occasional Reader  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:51:04am

re: #93 Killgore Trout

It's time for a reality check of where Barack Obama is in the big scheme of this election. Mathematically, he is in the driver's seat.

But actually, he's in the Waffle House.

102 Silhouette  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:51:31am

re: #93 Killgore Trout

I have this terrible anxiety and my stomach hurts. I feel like when the student loan people call and I can't make the payments. Everything is on a downward spiral and I don't know how to stop it

Obama downturns make baby leftists cry.

103 Ojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:51:35am

re: #71 coquimbojoe

Thanks.
Union Dead at Gettysburg

Lincoln Enters Richmond

"While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. "

God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home.

104 Kenneth  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:52:02am

re: #98 Cartman

Dammit, where did I put my guns and my Bible?

They're clinging to your bitter waffles.

105 IPLaw  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:52:21am

I, for one, am eagerly anticipating O'Reilly's discussion this evening of Mr. Wright's white enclave living, Mercedes driving, jewelry wearing, bling-bling lifestyle.

Applying Mr. Wright's race-is-everything lexicon, I must ask, what better way to disavow "white middleclassness" than by living "white upperclassness"?

106 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:52:24am

re: #98 Cartman

BLINK

/He's yer Huckleberry,,,,

107 godfrey  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:52:29am

Polls?

lol

108 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:52:32am

re: #93 Killgore Trout

My friends won't discuss it with me they are so sad over this latest turn of events.

Bwahaha!

Not that I should laugh-seems no one is happy with the 3 candidates. But as they say- misery loves company.

109 Occasional Reader  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:52:40am

re: #93 Killgore Trout

"Ever since Monday morning I have this terrible anxiety and my stomach hurts. I feel like when the student loan people call and I can't make the payments. Everything is on a downward spiral and I don't know how to stop it. I feel like the bottom is falling out. All the numbers are going the wrong way-plummeting and plunging polls.
All the magic's gone out of the campaign. My friends won't discuss it with me they are so sad over this latest turn of events."

Before this day, friends, I did not know the true meaning of "Schadenfreude".

Heh.

110 jorline  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:52:50am

Part Three

Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.

John, you are a flawed man. You are a bit old, a bit looney, and you have a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I WANT your trembling hand on the nuclear button.

Think about it.

We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics, threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling their sabres at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him to be really pissed off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.

John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office and throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a bit. And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it. I want ALL of these 'world leaders' to lay awake at night and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America .

I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran , Russia , China , Venezuela , Cuba , Libya , Syria , Pakistan , and the Saudis.

On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED. For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket. The liberals are pissed at him and the conservatives are pissed at him. Just my kinda guy.

I predict that John will select Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Good choice. I want a JEW whose memory of the Holocaust is still fresh in his mind and who is royally pissed off at all of these morons in the Middle East to be the next in line if something should happen to John. Shalom, Vice President Joe. One heartbeat from the Oval Office.

Finally. John McCain knows on a most personal level what it is to suffer horrible torture for years and to see others die, right in front of you, for their love of America . When you ask him about it, he will tell you that what he did was 'nothing special'. Even more incredibly, he states that ANY American who truly loves his country would do exactly the same as he did in that situation. You and I will have a hard time believing that, but the real point is that John McCain believes that about the 'average American', and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one poor ballot for on election day for John McCain -- warts and all.

Again, I did not write this, but it makes sense!

111 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:52:55am

re: #81 Sharmuta

.

There is always the Zionist entity.

Actually, Wright will come out against the Jews.
"We'd have a black man in the White House, but the Jewish-controlled media took him down!"
And Fuherkhan's NOI will be in the front lines.

112 cblesz  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:53:05am

re: #83 right wing zephyr

I spoke with a Liberal yesterday who said he was voting for Obama because he wanted "Radical Change"!

I said "Well you're gonna get that all right."

According to this loon, Among other things Obama is going to lower the gas prices at the pump. I can just see him traveling around stopping at all the gas stations, looking up at those cool white billboardy signs, stretching and using that long letter-handling stick thingy to do that.


What a freaking idiot. Do they understand that the Democrats are part of the problem? Do they understand that neither of the three can do much to change the price of oil/gas? Good lord, all they do is listen to Couric...

113 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:53:08am

re: #93 Killgore Trout

I feel like when the student loan people call and I can't make the payments.

There it is folks. The cause of Koskidism, a debilitating disease that renders a person incapable of accepting responsibility for themselves.

/Being a luthier must give you a strong stomach. Do you accept aging apprentices?

114 coquimbojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:53:23am

re: #97 BabbaZee

Countdown to Obamassiah Disillusionment Syndrome shrinks appearing in
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The question is, are they disillusioned by his lousy judgment and inability to explain away his advisor's racist views, or are they disillusioned by the fact he is losing?

115 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:54:08am

re: #83 right wing zephyr

I spoke with a Liberal yesterday who said he was voting for Obama because he wanted "Radical Change"!

I said "Well you're gonna get that all right."

According to this loon, Among other things Obama is going to lower the gas prices at the pump. I can just see him traveling around stopping at all the gas stations, looking up at those cool white billboardy signs, stretching and using that long letter-handling stick thingy to do that.

No, he'll wreck the economy so there will be so little demand for gas that the price will come down.
Or maybe he'll sacrifice Israel and be rewarded by his Arab friends with lower oil prices.

116 I_Invented_Al_Gore  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:54:17am

re: #90 OldLineTexan

Hope you're wrong about riots...although I'm willing to see a couple of media commentators throw a few swings.

/remembering Vidal and Buckley in '68

117 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:55:09am

re: #86 I_Invented_Al_Gore

Remember before the primaries started? Remember how it looked like a long and boring primary season?

This is the most interesting, albeit bizarre, election cycle in a long, long time.

I don't know if I'm looking forward to the convention or not, but it'll be interesting.

It'll be a riot.

118 firebreather  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:55:18am

Obama wants to have a national dialog about race. Then let's have a national dialog about race, shall we?

But we can't talk about the trillions of dollars in redistributed income from whites to blacks in the form of welfare payments.

We can't talk about 2 generations of black-on-white violence that has left more than 100,000 white people dead.

We can't talk about affirmative action or quotas or other forms of legalized discrimination against whites (and Asians, too).

We can't talk about the illegitimacy rate (70%?) in the black community that means most black children grow up fatherless.

We can't talk about the mind-numbing racism of Farrakan, Wright, Jackson, Sharpton, and their millions of black followers.

So there's not much of a "dilaog" when 90% of what ails the black community is completely taboo & off-limits for discussion.

119 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:55:56am

re: #114 coquimbojoe

They don't KNNNNNOOOOOOOOWWWwwwwww
you feelist
all they know is their bellies hurt
and they feel terrible anxiety!
Halp them, Jon Carry!

120 Cartman  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:56:00am

re: #106 BabbaZee

BLINK

/He's yer Huckleberry,,,,

LOL {babba}

121 bosforus  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:56:09am

re: #114 coquimbojoe

It seems like much of his shine has been washed away and from what I noticed, that was the basis of most of his support. I wonder what will emerge as the top reason to support him.

122 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:56:16am

re: #120 Cartman

{cartman}

123 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:56:25am

re: #111 Kosh's Shadow

Actually, Wright will come out against the Jews.
"We'd have a black man in the White House, but the Jewish-controlled media took him down!"
And Fuherkhan's NOI will be in the front lines.

I don't doubt it. There was a reason I didn't use a sarc tag.

124 godfrey  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:56:32am

re: #118 firebreather

So there's not much of a "dilaog" when 90% of what ails the black community is completely taboo & off-limits for discussion.

Doin' the Gramsci Raaaaag!

125 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:56:58am

re: #105 IPLaw

I, for one, am eagerly anticipating O'Reilly's discussion this evening of Mr. Wright's white enclave living, Mercedes driving, jewelry wearing, bling-bling lifestyle.

Applying Mr. Wright's race-is-everything lexicon, I must ask, what better way to disavow "white middleclassness" than by living "white upperclassness"?

That's what I've been shotting for, but I don't want the bling, the Mercedes, or the enclave.

I would like a world-class gun and Bible collection, a waffle house, and a couple hundred acres in the Hill Country with fainting goats* and an immigrant-proof fence. Because I am a TWP. I am very careful around buses as well.

/a fascination with fainting is something Barry Hussein and I have in common

126 Alouette  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:57:19am

Lady MacBama makes Sherry Palmer look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

127 bombarafat  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:57:25am

Keep it comin'
I'll take all the incendiary comments I can get

128 jcm  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:57:40am

re: #110 jorline

That was the fear of left re. RWR. A dottering old warmonger fool who'd incite nuclear war.

129 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:58:06am

re: #124 godfrey

Doin' the Gramsci Raaaaag!

130 Silhouette  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:58:07am

re: #118 firebreather

Like interfaith dialogues, which are only forums for instructing the Christians how to submit.

131 Athos  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:58:18am

re: #85 OldLineTexan

I agree, it's about time that racism and race baiting from minorities gets exposed and highlighted for what it is. For far too long, practitioners of this have had the MSM hide their racism behind a version of the absolute moral authority because of the color of their skin.

Frankly, this has gone on far too long.....and I continue to be amazed that it is tolerated and encouraged by the Democrat party. I wonder how many American's 18-30 know that it was the Democrat party that implemented the Jim Crow laws in the South, perpetuated the racism throughout the 20th century, fought to prevent de-segregation, and filibustered the Civil Rights Act in 1964. One has to wonder who is exploiting who at this point....and why we do tolerate those like Jackson, Wright, Sharpton who are profiting from their racism with a wink and a nod from the DNC.

One thing is sure, without the African American bloc, the DNC would be toast each and every election....

132 Roger  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:58:55am

re: #95 turn

I do get tired of hearing Wright's voice doing the emotes and operatics though.

133 right wing zephyr  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:59:04am

re: #118 firebreather


IT'S GO! TIME!

134 unreconstructed rebel  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:59:05am

But, on the other hand ...

... do you really want this person carrying the football?

135 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:59:16am

re: #127 bombarafat

Keep it comin'
I'll take all the incendiary comments I can get

OK, you're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.

136 godfrey  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:59:28am

re: #126 Alouette

LADY MACBETH: Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't.

Always manages to stay relevant, that Shakespeare.

137 finallyhere  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:59:29am

It took Obamas 20 years to get tired of Wright. Why we should be tired in two months? He is so entertaining! I can tolerate him for another 6 months. And I do not need even to admire Wright and to take spiritual advise from him.

138 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:59:34am

re: #132 Roger

I do get tired of hearing Wright's voice doing the emotes and operatics though.

Strangely familiar ain't it though

139 akak  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:59:56am

whoa 1.5 trillion McCain tax cut

140 coquimbojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:00:10am

re: #119 BabbaZee

They don't KNNNNNOOOOOOOOWWWwwwwww
you feelist
all they know is their bellies hurt
and they feel terrible anxiety!
Halp them, Jon Carry!

OK, I have noticed a couple of imeem links from you in the last couple of days, you likey? Now, you know I loves the music as much as the next guy (unless its Cartman were talking about ;-p), so out of love of music I ask, have you tried pandora yet?

141 Ojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:00:27am

re: #131 Athos

I fail to understand how the party of the Copperheads ever got the Black vote.

142 Cartman  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:00:44am

re: #104 Kenneth

They're clinging to your bitter waffles.

I'd better head over to IHOP...

143 I_Invented_Al_Gore  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:00:47am

re: #110 jorline

John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office and throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a bit. And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it. I want ALL of these 'world leaders' to lay awake at night and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America .

LOLOL. Whoever wrote this essay did a good job.

144 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:00:48am

re: #126 Alouette

Lady MacBama makes Sherry Palmer look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Except obama's no David. Funny- the best candidate the democrats ever had was a fictional character.

145 coquimbojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:00:50am

re: #139 akak

whoa 1.5 trillion McCain tax cut

akak-whatwhat?

146 godfrey  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:01:05am

re: #129 BabbaZee

Ah, Louis. A different kind of viper, and a musical heart as big as America.

147 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:01:05am

re: #134 unreconstructed rebel


Obamanable Obamassiah was raised up
only to be torn down

Behold
as she rides in on her White Centrist Trojan Horse.

148 jaunte  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:01:13am

A song for the fans of O...

149 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:01:31am

re: #140 coquimbojoe

Gettin' there. I am an old dog. One new trick at a time.

150 jamgarr  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:01:52am

re: #136 godfrey

Always manages to stay relevant, that Shakespeare.


What Wright through yonder window breaks?
Tis' the priest and Obama's like his son

/Apologies to The Bard

151 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:01:55am

re: #146 godfrey

Ah, Louis. A different kind of viper, and a musical heart as big as America.

how I LOVE Louis

152 laZardo  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:02:00am

And with this glimmer of (actual) hope, I have to sleep.

G'night all!

153 The Other Les  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:02:31am

re: #141 Ojoe

I fail to understand how the party of the Copperheads ever got the Black vote.

Tax and tax, spend and spend, and elect and elect.

154 Ward Cleaver  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:02:49am

Michelleiavelli says, "MoveOn!"

155 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:03:08am

re: #150 jamgarr

What Wright through yonder window breaks?
Tis' the priest and Obama's like his son

/Apologies to The Bard

Very nicely done!

156 The Other Les  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:03:17am

re: #147 BabbaZee

Obamanable Obamassiah was raised up
only to be torn down

Behold
as she rides in on her White Centrist Trojan Horse.

As long as she isn't riding naked.

157 Ward Cleaver  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:03:21am

re: #153 The Other Les

Tax and tax, spend and spend, and elect and elect.

Handout after handout...

158 firebreather  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:03:22am

re: #124 godfrey

That's right; whitey is always off-key.

re: #130 Silhouette

The type of "dialog" Obama has in mind is the same endless loop of a one-sided scolding black leaders (and liberal whites) have been administering to guilt-ridden whites for 40 years; and guilt-ridden, wicked whites are expected to keep their mouths shut & hang their heads in shame & agree with everything; white penance for long-ago slavery & segregation is literally endless.

159 Cartman  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:03:24am

re: #140 coquimbojoe

Now, you know I loves the music as much as the next guy (unless its Cartman were talking about ;-p)

You got a linky for that assertion?
;)

160 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:03:33am

re: #141 Ojoe

I fail to understand how the party of the Copperheads ever got the Black vote.

Reconstruction was a dismal orgy of corruption punctuated by violence. When the looting subsided and the locals recovered, the poor freedmen made whatever peace they could to avoid being terrorized and murdered.

It's mirrored in the Central and South American patronage system currently. Another example would be "getting along" with the mafia by absolutely "minding your own business", which translates as "do exactly as I say and you won't be hurt."

161 Ward Cleaver  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:03:40am

re: #156 The Other Les

As long as she isn't riding naked.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

162 Roger  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:03:42am

re: #138 BabbaZee

lol! Yep!

163 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:04:15am

re: #156 The Other Les

As long as she isn't riding naked.

Or dirty.

164 doppelganglander  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:04:18am

re: #93 Killgore Trout

Love your Kos Kid Kwote:

Ever since Monday morning I have this terrible anxiety and my stomach hurts. I feel like when the student loan people call and I can't make the payments. Everything is on a downward spiral and I don't know how to stop it. I feel like the bottom is falling out. All the numbers are going the wrong way-plummeting and plunging polls.
All the magic's gone out of the campaign. My friends won't discuss it with me they are so sad over this latest turn of events.

That's the nutroots in a nutshell.

165 godfrey  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:04:38am

re: #150 jamgarr

lol

Look how she rubs her hands.

With Michelle, "out, damn'd spot!" ever comes to mind. I'm sure they'd like to play the MacBeths to Wright's Duncan. Metaphorically, of course.

166 Ojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:04:41am

re: #155 Sharmuta

Out out, brief candidate
Full of hope and change

Signifying nothing

167 The Other Les  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:05:30am

re: #161 Ward Cleaver

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I agree.

168 akak  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:05:50am

^oops bad math $5000 to US taxpayers

169 nyc redneck  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:05:58am

the only people tired of hearing abt. the unsavory background of mr. and mrs. o, are mr. and mrs. o.

170 coquimbojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:06:12am

re: #159 Cartman

You got a linky for that assertion?
;)

Just funnin' ya. I looked up thread and figured someone with Cartman as a nic could take some ribbing.

171 Ojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:06:20am

re: #160 OldLineTexan

That is sad. I don't know the history of the reconstruction era. I should read up on it.

172 Cartman  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:06:58am

Well, off to "donate" blood to the vampires at the med lab. Catch y'all later!

173 Cartman  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:07:51am

re: #170 coquimbojoe

Just funnin' ya. I looked up thread and figured someone with Cartman as a nic could take some ribbing.

You are correct. ;)

174 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:07:52am
175 Last Mohican  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:08:04am

Here's what I thought was most interesting about Obama's latest statement:

"When the first snippets came out, I thought it was important to give him the benefit of the doubt because if I had wanted to be politically expedient I would have distanced myself and denounced him right away, right? That would have been the easy thing to do," said Obama.

That looks like our first glimpse at his new official explanation for his actions. I'll translate it from political doubletalk into English: "Yes, I endorsed Wright's bizarre racist ranting for 20 years. And I again supported him in Philadelphia, because I thought I could get away with accusing all anti-Wright people of being racists (thereby benefitting ME!) But now I see that I can't get away with that politically after all, so I'm going to throw Wright under the bus. All of this demonstrates how I'm a loyal, principled person, rather than a politically expedient one. Please continue to admire and adore me."

176 nyc redneck  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:08:21am

re: #5 bosforus

Does the Obama camp really think the public has no notion of 'conflict of interest'? How about if WE decide when it's time to stop talking about you, not you.

LOL, hey, isn't that a novelty idea? we decide!

177 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:08:59am

Now is the primary of our discontent
Made bitter summer by this son of Wright;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon obama's house
In the deep bosom of the electorate buried.

178 Ward Cleaver  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:09:01am

re: #7 NoSubmission

I never get tired of it. I say give the stinky Rev. a 24 hr. cable show.

It might be as entertaining as Gene Scott.

179 nyc redneck  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:09:13am

re: #7 NoSubmission

I never get tired of it. I say give the stinky Rev. a 24 hr. cable show.

i think he does have a book deal. bet they fast track that.

180 unreconstructed rebel  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:09:25am

re: #156 The Other Les

Please stop. I'm trying to eat lunch.

181 gymnast  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:09:30am

re: #141 Ojoe

I fail to understand how the party of the Copperheads ever got the Black vote.

Because they are "Snake Charmers" and puff adders like the the Reverend Wright and my Man, The Reverend Al have a natural kinship for the copperheads and copperhead media snakes.

182 Cygnus  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:10:04am

re: #24 Killgore Trout

OT: Monkey that likes eating nostrils

Awwwww - how cute. I hope the little guy doesn't do that when he's an adult! Somebody could lose a nose.

183 Ward Cleaver  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:10:29am

re: #4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I disagree, I could listen to this for months and months.

At least through Nov. 4th.

184 Kenneth  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:11:09am

This Just In: Perception Is Reality
Jeremiah Wright fought a losing battle on unfamiliar turf
By William Jelani Cobb

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Jeremiah Wright has just been awarded a construction contract. And that's the best case scenario -- in light of his weekend blitz of media appearances there are many doubting that Wright's intentions were benign. Assuming they were, the reverend's appearance before the National Press Club highlighted his naive belief that he could redeem his reputation by talking to the same people who were responsible for distorting it.

Oh that's it, the media made Wright say all that crap about AIDs and G-d Damn Amerikkka.

185 EE  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:11:38am

Obama spent 20 years in close association with Jeremiah Wright, who married him, baptized his children, and has been Obama's mentor (as Obama has himself described the relation). Since Obama is a newby to national politics and somewhat of an enigma, I am glad to hear the statements of Jeremiah Wright so I can get to know Obama better.

It has been a great mystery why Obama spent some 20 years in close association with Jeremiah Wright. I need to hear Wright as much as possible to learn more about Obama.

It appears that it took Obama some 20 years to understand what Wright was about. And that did not happen until Obama's ratings started to fall. This is the guy who wants to talk to the dictator of North Korea, and who took 20 years until he learned that Wright was a raving racist and anti-American bigot? Obama seems incapable of sizing people up quickly, and requires decades in order to do it. And what kind of judgment does Obama have, in making this bigot his surrogate grandfather?

Hearing Wright is important, because it sheds light on Obama's character, his integrity, his judgment, and his core beliefs. Obama, a newcomer, has decided he wants to be president of the United States of America. There is nothing more important, now, than hearing the words of Jeremiah Wright, Obama's mentor of 20 years.

186 Killgore Trout  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:11:57am

re: #182 Cygnus

can I haz boogers?

187 right wing zephyr  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:12:11am

re: #175 Last Mohican

Here's what I thought was most interesting about Obama's latest statement:

When the first snippets came out, I thought it was important to give him the benefit of the doubt because if I had wanted to be politically expedient I would have distanced myself and denounced him right away, right? That would have been the easy thing to do," said Obama.

...

Right! As if he and his advisors weren't glued to the screen, LIVE!

188 gymnast  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:12:24am

What begins as Shakespeare will end as Faulkner.

189 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:12:45am

re: #165 godfrey

lol

Look how she rubs her hands.

With Michelle, "out, damn'd spot!" ever comes to mind. I'm sure
they'd like to play the MacBeths to Wright's Duncan. Metaphorically, of
course.


"who'd have thought the old man had so much crap in him?"

190 jamgarr  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:12:57am

To B or not to B
That is the question
Whether it is nobler in mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous polling
Or to take arms against a sea of pundits
And by opposing end them?

191 bosforus  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:12:59am

re: #176 nyc redneck

LOL, hey, isn't that a novelty idea? we decide!

It's kind of a no-brainer. Let's stop talking about Obama because he told us we don't want to anymore. [record scratching noise] What?!

192 bosforus  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:13:31am

re: #176 nyc redneck

Ah, Rush is talking about it now.

193 Ward Cleaver  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:13:35am
“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC’s “Today” show.

She must've heard that from those Obamatons in the tan Che-esqe t-shirts, at Obama's speech the other day.

194 jamgarr  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:13:38am

Crap! PIMF

To B or not to B
That is the question
Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous polling
Or to take arms against a sea of pundits
And by opposing end them?

195 Cygnus  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:13:51am

re: #59 Adrenalyn

yeah, but rice is such nice good healthy stuff

Obama and his ilk in the Nazicrat party
really do stink

Brown or wild rice, not white rice. They take all the good stuff out of white rice so it's nothing but empty carbs.

196 Ward Cleaver  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:14:18am

re: #184 Kenneth

This Just In: Perception Is Reality
Jeremiah Wright fought a losing battle on unfamiliar turf
By William Jelani Cobb

Oh that's it, the media made Wright say all that crap about AIDs and G-d Damn Amerikkka.

Keep lyin', Cobb.

197 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:14:30am

a whore
a whore
my kingdom for a whore

198 bosforus  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:14:38am

re: #192 bosforus

well, he was

199 nyc redneck  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:15:01am

re: #91 Occasional Reader

I hear time and time again that people are just plain tired of Adriana Lima refusing to give Occasional Reader a full body massage.

and i hear time and time again that people are just plain tired of gerard butler not taking nyc redneck away for a romantic week-end.

200 gymnast  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:15:52am

re: #197 BabbaZee

a whore
a whore
my kingdom for a whore

Sounds more like Spitzer than Shakespeare.

201 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:16:20am

re: #200 gymnast

I was waiting for it
lol

202 OldLineTexan  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:16:29am

re: #171 Ojoe

That is sad. I don't know the history of the reconstruction era. I should read up on it.

All the nastiness and destruction of the Civil War itself, with none of the saving graces of heroism, patriotism, or devotion, IMO. It's depressing, but a necessary study to understand many of the roots of problems such as racism, endemic and institutionalized discrimination, government-mandated poverty, and race-baiting demagoguery in the United States, none of which are limited to the South in any way. Plenty of "gated communities", enclaves, ghettoes, barrios, and 'hoods in the rest of the country.

203 Kenneth  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:16:51am

re: #185 EE

Did you see the polls published today, how Obama has slipped 10 or 15% points against Hillary in NC? Well Obama saw those numbers yesterday. That's why he denounced Wright.

Either:

a) For 20 years, Obama knew nothing about Wright's opinions and nothing about the ideology of Black Liberation Theology.

Or

b) Obama knew full well and found nothing too objectionable until he realized it might hurt his chances to get elected.

204 Kulhwch  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:17:08am
“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC’s “Today” show.

"These are not the droids you're looking for.  Move along."

Now maybe this idiotic attempt at the Jedi Mind Trick will work on the moonbats (in fact, I think it likely to do so), but for the rest of us it's hilarious.

}:)     [My biggest fear is it'll work on McCain, who apparently needed Barry Hussein's permission to even speak about it ... ]

205 coquimbojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:17:14am

re: #197 BabbaZee

a whore
a whore
my kingdom for a whore

Come to Vegas. You see 'em at the bank in the early afternoon cashing in their rolls of twentys. I fact a kingdom might get 37 or so....

/Just pointin' out the facts.....

206 firebreather  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:17:32am

re: #185 EE

Privately, Obama agrees with most of what Wright says. You don't allow yourself to be mentored for 20 years by someone you vehemently disagree with.

In short, Obama is a racist; doe-eyed, soft-spoken & charismatic, but a dyed-in-the-wool racist just the same.

207 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:17:35am

re: #195 Cygnus

Brown or wild rice, not white rice. They take all the good stuff out of white rice so it's nothing but empty carbs.

How come white Frosted Flakes are "greeeeeat" but black Coco-Puffs make you cuckoo?

And how come Spanish olives get to be in a nice glass jar while black olives are in a can?

208 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:17:58am

re: #205 coquimbojoe

Generation HO

209 bosforus  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:19:42am

re: #203 Kenneth

Yeah, he's scrambling. His half-hearted denouncement yesterday won't fool many.

210 nyc redneck  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:20:01am

re: #192 bosforus

Ah, Rush is talking about it now.

i'm listening too :)
did you hear that screaming from the dems abt, the mayhem they are going to perpetrate in denver.
operation chaos.

211 Ben Hur  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:20:18am

Well, we clap differently, maybe we tire differently.

/Rev WRight.

212 Occasional Reader  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:20:24am

re: #207 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

How come white Frosted Flakes are "greeeeeat" but black Coco-Puffs make you cuckoo?

GOD HATES FRUITY PEBBLES

--Fred Phelps

213 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:20:36am

Yond obama has a lean and hungry look,
He hopes too much; such men are dangerous.

214 coquimbojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:20:43am

re: #208 BabbaZee

Generation HO

Chris Rock does a bit where he talks about his baby daughter, and how his mission in life is 'to keep her off the pole'. Here in Vegas, that just isn't funny when that is really considered an option....

/How about your kingdom for some shame? A little bit more shame might be nice...

215 El matamoros  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:20:59am

You know what is strange? Are Limosene Liberals and Blacks going to defect to the "vast right wing conspiracy"? Think about it, Rightwingers have had a visceral hatred of the Clintons since 1993, Most leftys never understood why. Remember that 3$ bill with Bill Clintons face on it? lol!
I think they are now starting to understand! I can't wait to your friendly neighiborhood loony leftist starts saying that WACO and RUBY RIDGE were an inside job! lol!

216 gymnast  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:21:43am

Subscriptions to the "Daily Defender" had surpassed those to the Hyde Park Herald long before Obama showed up and started hanging out at Jimmy's on 55th.

217 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:22:47am

re: #214 coquimbojoe


Chris Rock does a bit where he talks about his baby daughter, and how his mission in life is 'to keep her off the pole'. Here in Vegas, that just isn't funny when that is really considered an option....

/How about your kingdom for some shame? A little bit more shame might be nice...

218 CAD Daddy  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:22:53am

“We hear time and time again voters our supporters & campaign staff are tired of this,”

There, fixed that for you Michelle.

219 Kenneth  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:23:02am

re: #209 bosforus

It's interesting who he is loosing support from. Some hard core supporters are taking Wright's side and blaming Obama for turning on him. Also, lot's of cautious folks who were sitting on the fence finally made up their minds to vote for Hillary.

220 Occasional Reader  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:24:14am

re: #219 Kenneth

who he is loosing support from

You're all doing this on purpose. Which begs the question: Why?

221 coquimbojoe  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:24:53am

re: #217 BabbaZee

You're good!

222 Sharmuta  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:24:58am

re: #186 Killgore Trout

can I haz boogers?

That's not Shakespeare! ;)

223 Cygnus  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:25:33am

re: #172 Cartman

Well, off to "donate" blood to the vampires at the med lab. Catch y'all later!

For a second there, I read that as 'meth lab'. Oops. :)

224 BabbaZee  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:27:49am

re: #221 coquimbojoe

;~}

Goodness got nothin' to do with it
~ Mae West

Mae West : A plumber's idea of the Queen of Sheeba
~ WC Fields

WLGF out

225 EE  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:28:00am

Obama is a newby and has no record and no accomplishments.
The main thing we know about him is that for 20 years Obama was unable to change his church, even though the pastor at his church is a raving racist, and an anti-American bigot. So now, after 20 years, Obama presents himself as the change-meister. the master of change. The only thing that Obama is good at changing is his story. What a liar.

226 CIA Reject  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:28:40am

“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said...

Correction: YOUR voters, ie your fellow parishoners at the First Church of the Holy Victimhood (Racist), are tired of hearing about this. The rest of us are just totally flabbergasted by your malignant narcissism and condescension in assuming that this will just "go away".

Sorry Mickey, the Memory Hole is full!

227 Albigensian  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:29:03am

"When I am king, and I say we are tired of hearing of this, then we shall no longer hear of it!"

Yes, Barry, but you're not king ... yet.

228 cosmo  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:29:04am

I must not be a voter, then, because I'm not tired of this at all. In fact, I could read this crap for years. I've got staying power and a bottle of Five-hour Energy at the ready.

More Wright stories. More exposure on this roach. More two-stepping by Obama. It's like reality TV only much more entertaining. I can't wait until Obama's sidestepping speeches make the rounds on the Chat Stew segment of "The Soup" on E!

I'll make the popcorn. You bring the hopechange!

229 Cygnus  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:31:14am

re: #212 Occasional Reader

GOD HATES FRUITY PEBBLES

--Fred Phelps

IRISH-AMERICANS AGAINST LUCKY CHARMS!

230 sarr  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:31:57am

I am usually very busy during the day but i always take time out to read the comment posted by LGF readers. You truly are the smartest, funniest, most honest assessors on any blog. I find myself getting the best most opened minded views on the web. A plus is always a good laugh from the quick witted sarcasm regarding most topics. thanks guys!

231 Kenneth  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:32:09am

re: #220 Occasional Reader

You're all doing this on purpose. Which begs the question: Why?

what are we doing and why?

232 SagamoreGal  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:32:26am

Rev Wright is the best thing to happen to the world of entertainment since the Cakewalk in the early 1900's.

233 quickjustice  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:32:48am

Electing Obama means eight (8) years of Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan! Think about it! We'll be stuck in 1966 forever!

234 Cygnus  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:33:10am

re: #230 sarr

I am usually very busy during the day but i always take time out to read the comment posted by LGF readers. You truly are the smartest, funniest, most honest assessors on any blog. I find myself getting the best most opened minded views on the web. A plus is always a good laugh from the quick witted sarcasm regarding most topics. thanks guys!

And gals.

235 cosmo  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:33:51am

re: #212 Occasional Reader

GOD HATES FRUITY PEBBLES

--Fred Phelps

I must be God then. Fruity Pebbles are the devil. Rice Chex make you foof.

236 psaturn  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:34:34am

re: #215 El matamoros

You got a point there!

237 Kenneth  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:34:55am

re: #233 quickjustice

Electing Obama means eight (8) years of Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan! Think about it! We'll be stuck in 1966 forever!

Louis Farrakhan!? You mean the foremost thinker of the 20th century?

And hear I thought that fusty old Jew Einstein was a smart dude!

238 Paul Atreides  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:37:59am
“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC’s “Today” show.

Reckon voters ever get tired of the racist victimology that you and Wright constantly peddle, Michelle?

239 brent  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:39:37am
“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said...

She must be watching Countdown, with Keef....

I watched a few min last nite, and he really seems to have something against Hillary. Really, I think he wants her to drop out. Don't even get him started about Florida - those people that don't get to vote in the primaries, some of them want Hillary to win, how unfair is that?

Do the Obamas pay him? If so, they need to pay a little more and get on a show that someone besides only their looniest supporters watch.

240 ghengis was a wuss  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:41:31am

BHO is either :

1) too naive to be President
2) not a good enough judge of character to be President
3) not moral enough to be President, since he sat there for 20 years lapping it up.
4) I also question him raising his daughters to swallow this filth also.

241 landru  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:44:31am

The Globe and Mail -- which used to be known as a conservative newspaper in Canada -- ran this apology for Wright:

[Link: www.theglobeandmail.com...]

Essentially it says Wright's rantings are no such thing; they're the elements of black liberation theology blah blah and we'd better get used to it, since it's been suffocated for decades.

Wow. Imagine you're black and go to church and suddenly you're painted with the Wright brush.

242 debutaunt  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:44:57am

re: #137 finallyhere

It took Obamas 20 years to get tired of Wright. Why we should be tired in two months? He is so entertaining! I can tolerate him for another 6 months. And I do not need even to admire Wright and to take spiritual advise from him.

If it was Michelle's church, how long was she there before Barack joined?

243 wolfie  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:52:17am

re: #88 Mazeman

Now we need to pray he gets the nomination.

Let Hillary continue to inflict damage for now, but we don't want to see her get the nod, and look like a relative "breath of fresh air". If that happens, we lose in November.

What has been the quintessential Clinton strategy? Triangulation. Define everyone to the right of a Clinton as a "right-wing extremist." Find a real or imaginary figure who can play Too-Far-Left. The TFL's actual policy may not be any more extreme than that of the Clintons, but the style will be. Manufacture or embrace the opportunities for Sistah Soljah moments.
Dupe the electorate into thinking you are sane and moderate. Count the votes.

Business as usual for the Clintons.
A very successful formula, I fear.
Yes, I fear.

244 jorline  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:52:19am

re: #143 I_Invented_Al_Gore


I agree...nothing like a good old temper tantrum to keep everyone guessing and on their toes.

245 wolfie  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:55:51am

re: #126 Alouette

Lady MacBama makes Sherry Palmer look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Priceless!

246 summergurl  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:56:24am

Okay Rev Wright is tire tread so let's move on... how about Bill Ayers? Wanna discuss that one Barack?

247 towm  Thu, May 1, 2008 9:58:37am

re: #91 Occasional Reader

I hear time and time again that people are just plain tired of Adriana Lima refusing to give Occasional Reader a full body massage.

OC,
You may continue to regale us with your tale of woe vis a vis Ms. Lima's reluctance to stimulate you. However, I believe the only one who is 'plain tired' of the request is Ms. Lima.

Sort of like the B Hussein Obamas and the Rev Wrong....

248 towm  Thu, May 1, 2008 10:00:12am

ahem...should be 'OR', not 'OC'
/preview is my friend

249 JustMyView  Thu, May 1, 2008 10:07:58am

re: #50 firebreather

Their mindset comes from a bottomless sense of entitlement. As Obama told a colleague, "We're owed!" (meaning black people).

I hadn't heard that quote. Do you know where and when he said it?

250 Athos  Thu, May 1, 2008 10:13:24am

re: #141 Ojoe

I fail to understand how the party of the Copperheads ever got the Black vote.

Pandering and buying votes via welfare and other similar programs.

251 Shr_Nfr  Thu, May 1, 2008 10:20:37am

re: #110 jorline

He also knows how to set somebody's broken arm in a pinch. [Link: online.wsj.com...] I doubt the other candidates have the knowledge or balls to pull that one off.

The middle east situation is about "honor". Sadly that is the mindset. I say sadly, because it almost always comes out with a less than optimal result. That said though, I would rather have a man of "honor" as president than some weasel. The job of president of the US is to promote the interests of the US. Lets elect somebody who does.

252 Partisan  Thu, May 1, 2008 10:20:56am

Two sentences I want to see turned into ads..

"Obama wants to negotiate w/ Iran,Syria, North Korea, but can't negotiate a cease fire with a friend he's known for twenty years?

"Obama, can't protect his campaign from a friend, how is he gonna protect America from her enemies?

253 Kenneth  Thu, May 1, 2008 10:21:58am

re: #241 landru

I saw that. And for "authorities" on what constitutes the mainstream in African American churches, the author asked the two leading Black Liberation Theologists about it. Yup, that's fact checking for ya!

254 IPLaw  Thu, May 1, 2008 11:00:57am

OT, but, I mean, cry me an Ivy-league-educated river:

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

Obama's wife joins push to court working class

"She described to an audience in Indianapolis how they struggled, like any other young couple in Middle America, to raise two children and pay off debts."

What's even more disturbing is that, according to the Obama world view, America is always at fault - just see how hard she had to struggle to pay off her Harvard law debt. G-D America and its opportunities!

255 perkypauly  Thu, May 1, 2008 11:21:33am

Keep thinking what a shrewd political ploy—now he (Obama) can claim to be a victim of Wright’s manipulative ways and get his campaign back track. He wins sympathy and the poor fools vote for him, forgetting that for 20 years he heard these traitorous sermons, was aware of Wright’s friendship and trip with Farrakhan . Am I to believe that he was selectively deaf for those 20 years or too stupid to understand what was being preached? In either case it certainly disqualifies him from the presidency
Got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and now he claims that he is another innocent victim of that shrewd Pastor Wright. Obama was as unaware of Wright’s statements as the Germans were unaware of the Holocaust

256 Barry  Thu, May 1, 2008 11:33:02am

Charles, if you must use my name please make it obvious that it's not me you're on about!
I have nothing to do with Obama and his machinations.

257 Silhouette  Thu, May 1, 2008 11:35:05am

re: #256 Barry

Charles, if you must use my name please make it obvious that it's not me you're on about!
I have nothing to do with Obama and his machinations.

But you were great on the Brady Bunch.

258 rosterguard99  Thu, May 1, 2008 11:56:46am

“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC’s “Today” show.

Yeah, because if there's anyone you can trust to give you an accurate assessment of America's interest in a certain scandal, it's the politician who's been hurt by said scandal.

259 hazzyday  Thu, May 1, 2008 12:03:13pm

I've had several spirtual leaders. A few for a long time. I don't always agree with them, but they did influence me greatly. If one of them had been like Rev. Wright I would have been greatly at dis-ease. I would not possibly been able to stay in such an environment. I think Obama stayed there as a form of desparation and because of acceptance of him and his perceived political career. He needed street cred. Bad choice all around for a politician. This stuff did infect Obama and his wife. They just don't realize how deep. He has to be majorly conflicted at the moment. The stress will tell how well he can lead. So far the reviews are not good. His wife and his pastor seem more significant then him.

The reason Obama can stay and prosper in a race-hating anti american culture and still want to be the POTUS escapes me. Rev Wright has the same mentality as a KKK Grand Dragon. He is no different in modern times.

260 hazzyday  Thu, May 1, 2008 12:09:14pm

re: #258 rosterguard99

“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC’s “Today” show.

Yeah, because if there's anyone you can trust to give you an accurate assessment of America's interest in a certain scandal, it's the politician who's been hurt by said scandal.

You wonder what voters she is polling. Only the ones on her horizon. I certainly think this is the vetting of Obama that needs to occur. Hillary and McCain have already been through a lot of this vetting process. I guess the questions are too tough for her.

I see her saying we should move on, drop the unsavory past, and look for a brighter future. If she wants to commit fully to that line of thought, she should make a wonderfullly starry example of herself and come out against reparations and for the small business owner. That would be a reconciliatory thrust that people could migrate to. She sounds very personally centered to me. One set of rules for her, and one set for every one else. That is the problem of growing up disenfranchised in a left leaning educational environment. IF she was merit educated she would have more confidence in herself and her country. She has been handicapped by having things given to her.

261 rosterguard99  Thu, May 1, 2008 12:36:01pm

re: #260 hazzyday

If she wants to commit fully to that line of thought, she should make a wonderfullly starry example of herself and come out against reparations and for the small business owner. That would be a reconciliatory thrust that people could migrate to.

I could be wrong about this, but I don't see them doing that. What I think they'll both try to do is sound more like Bill Cosby in their upcoming speeches, talking about personal responsibility, education and such. Of course, I could be wrong about that, too...

262 AZDave  Thu, May 1, 2008 12:44:06pm

re: #30 Talldude682

If they are tired of hearing about Wright I guess we could talk about Ayers and the Weather Underground for a while......

Let's not forget the pictures of Che in Obama's Houston office.

263 NGrove  Thu, May 1, 2008 1:43:40pm

I imagine that the sycophants they regularly speak to are pretty tired of the whole thing. They ought to be careful what they wish for, the topics that could replace the good reverend aren't any picnic.

264 ciaospirit  Thu, May 1, 2008 2:17:01pm

I can't stand a man who hides behind his wife's designer skirt.

265 Bosk  Thu, May 1, 2008 2:47:38pm

WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor
correction: Democrat B. Hussien Obama and his wife said Thursday they are tired of the public hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor and spiritual confidant.

266 RobCon  Thu, May 1, 2008 3:25:18pm

yeah, tired of Wright. More Scooter Libby!

267 freedombilly  Thu, May 1, 2008 3:49:36pm

If only we each had our own "media" in our personal lives. Then we could decide when we didn't want anyone to talk about our transgressions any longer. If my wife goes for it I'm going to hook myself up with my own "impartial" mouthpiece that takes my side on everything. Marriage will be a breeze!

Freedombilly from Potomac, MD (where I can still smell the stench coming from inside the beltway).

268 jimbouie  Thu, May 1, 2008 6:31:47pm

What I'm really tired of hearing is Michelle Obama telling me I need to grow and change to be worthy of her simply-too-wonderful-for-this-world husband. Especially since the only narrow-mindedness and bigotry I've noticed is coming from their side of the divide.

Michelle can kiss my G-d-loving, gun-clinging, free-trade-fearing ass.

269 leah  Thu, May 1, 2008 8:31:39pm

well, if they are tired of hearing about j-wright maybe we can start talking about the Zogby's, Obama's latest pro-Hamas/Hizbollah/Saudi prince money taking/anti-Israel/poll fixing/state dept infiltrating friends...make that "good friend"!

270 Jed  Fri, May 2, 2008 6:21:15am

The character of a person is not a distraction, it is a central determinent of who we want to be president.

271 Picayune  Fri, May 2, 2008 8:36:30am

As seen on M. Malkin's site yesterday on same topic, by RedRepublic:

Michelle O: "They don't want to hear about this division, they want to know what are we going to do to move beyond these issues," she said.

As Red insightfully noted, just who the hell is the 'we" that MO refers to, if not BO and herself?

Woot! There it is, she's letting it slip again - we're gettin the Twofer, again. This is painful shades of Hillery '92, a co-presidency.

Man she just can't help herself! Imagine her faux pas slips in Cabinet meetings, or worse, along w/ Pres BO on his promised World's Greatest Terrorist Tour, speaking with current despicable Dictator/Despots you never wanted to meet, nor hear from again? Oh well, the L3, MSM's always there to provide them cover, " move along folks...."

If this little gem doesn't make your skin crawl, nothing known to date about this evil duo will! Heard Chris Rock has alluded to it as well in a recent performance - referencing how strong the black wife truly is.

Imagine MO as the gatekeeper, along with support from her spiritual mentor, J. Wright.

Barry along with her in the White House will make Dagwood look like Archie Bunker!


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