Obama Looks Beyond Wright

Obama will NEVER get beyond Wright because he will never be able to adequately explain how he listened to hate-filled sermons for twenty years. No amount of race-baiting on his part, or on the part of his surrogates and supporters will ever change what the public already knows.
Rise Hillary, Rise!

Mr. Obama has adjusted his stories (lack of candidness and truthfulness) on the topic of Rev. Wright too many times to believe. Senator Obama stated publically that he never heard Rev. Wright make any controversial statements. Then he later stated that he did hear some over the years he’s been in church. Which is true and which is false? He gives a speech shown on national television saying “I can no more disown him (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother.” — Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18, 2008. Now in North Carolina he says the comments were “shockingly divisive and destructive”. What comments is he talking about? We all heard the shocking, hatred for American and the white people several months ago, this is not a new issue! The truth is that Mr. Obama has just realized that the American public now realizes that Rev. Wright sells racial hatred and therefore Obama’s judgment is now in question. So the new message is now rejection, dump the reverend not because Rev. Wright said disgusting and degrading things about America and the white population, but because it clearly now shows a lack of sound judgment for a very LONG TIME on Mr. Obama’s part. Yes, as he says today no more “silly” discussions, let’s stick to the issues. No more talk about my character. The issue today is the gas tax relief and I say no because it will make me look like I am pandering for votes (don’t want to make me look bad) and I am telling everyone that it will only save them some $30.00. I would love him to tell a trucker filling up his “big rig” this story. What is wrong with trying to help out the American public while you try to figure out how to best solve this problem…..no, I guess it is better to let it reach “crisis” proportions before you do anything. By the way, Mr. Obama $30.00 is a lot of money to me on social security, maybe nothing but a small “tip” for you for a dinner out.

The gas tax holiday is a bad idea, do the research.

@ counting crows: What’s really boring is the desperation of the Obama camp. When the polls drop, bring on the race-baiting, name calling, and ad hominine attacks on Hillary, and her supporters.

IT’S OVER HILLARY SUPPORTERS !!
The ‘establishment’ has already determined the Obama will be the democratic nominee. You can thank Dean, Pelosi and company for that.
All that’s left for you to do is fall in line behind Obama and be good little democrats. All for the sake of a broken party!

@ Oscar Meyer:
While I certainly feel a kinship with my fellow Hillary supporters, we aren’t the same person, and we aren’t paid for our support. Unlike some Obama bloggers, we demonstrate our support for Hillary for free, and we try our best to remain respectful of others who don’t share our views. (Although, we have, and will continue to defend ourselves against specious slams by Obama bloggers.)

So, he thinks he has wiped the slate clean and go forth as the clean heroic torch bearer? To paraphrase Rev. Wright’s retort to America, “the chickens are coming home to roost!” Twenty years of listening to the rantings, the hatred, and the disunity themes, you would have to be totally disengenuous to run for President on a theme of CHANGE and UNITY. Words are not “just words” as he said. They have a way of coming back to haunt you.

Great Hillary cover up. Bring Rev. Wright back in.

hmmm. don’t think the obama camp is desperate. we’re just calmly biding our time. what IS desperate, though, is someone totally trashing the seriousness of the iraq war and the efforts of our kids over there by telling a funny – yeah, she was actually smiling – little story about her sniper fire experience. misspeak? an inane word to describe a disgusting lie told to bolster one’s so-called experience. if i ever had the inclination to support her, that crushed it, that put her in the game-playing, politics as usual, win-no-matter-what-you-have-to-say-or-do camp. make no mistake, if somehow she manages to wrest the nomination away from obama i will vote for her but i’ll be sick to my stomach for weeks afterwards. however, i’m not stocking up on tums in anticipation of this unhappy event.

Regarding the Wright controversy: Obama attended a church whose pastor made controversial statements. Obama said he completely rejects those views, yet that is not good enough for some. The argument is that if Obama really does reject those statements, then he should have left the church.
If that is the standard for Obama, then by that logic every Catholic should leave the Catholic church, because it is not enough for Catholics to be outraged by church officials who at the highest levels covered up the criminal and morally reprehensible actions of priests molesting kids.
Which is worse? Wright saying outrageous things, or Bishops who simply transferred molester priests to other parishes so they can molest more kids? It’s pretty clear to me.
This is a double standard and has NOTHING to do with the problems that face this country.
If the electorate does not vote for Obama based on his pastor comments, then it is no different than voting for Bush because you’d rather have a beer with him. This is not a good way of determining who should lead this country. Just look at what the drinking buddy test has gotten us over the past eight years.

Can Obama get beyond Rev Wright? Nope.
The LIBERAL MEDIA will try to SPIN him out of it and surpress what they can.
Fox news inst controlled by Obama. Fox has a higher viewership than any news organization.
So no. He will never live it down.
Besides. Does anyone REALLY think Wright is going to keep his mouth shut for the next 6 months???
lol

Not tough len, going in to this contest 48% of all voting Americans disapproves of Hillary Clinton. (not to even mention that she has run such a disgusting race that now many Dems like me will not vote for her)
– That’s it, end of story. She can’t win when half the country is against her from the beginning.

Clinton will come from behind in NC and Maintain her lead in In and Obama will be knocked back because of his associations he didnt do enough to get away from wright he only did it for poltical expediency North Carolina is Clinton country and we do not want your devisive racist pandering vitole thatcomes from the Obamabots please stop or leave the Deomocratic party you arent true Deomocrats

Anne,
Good comment.
Thanks

Thomas, you are correct in what you say.—–”Which is worse? Wright saying outrageous things, or Bishops who simply transferred molester priests to other parishes so they can molest more kids? It’s pretty clear to me.”—– But it is not clear to me, the question remains —How will Mr. Obama’s association with this movement influence his beliefs, ideas, and actions as President of the United States? I think this is a legitimate question. If you knew Bishops or Priests were going to commit further crimes because of their philosophy that would be okay with you? The values and teachings of this church are radical and have been for years. Does anyone think I am wrong asking this question as a US citizen?

@ BKMC:
You need to do some homework.
Obama’s 2007 tax return shows 4.2 million dollars in income. The difference between Obama and Hillary is that Hillary has never lied about being rich and she donated all 10.5 Million in income from her books to charitable causes, per the tax returns over the past 8 years. Divide it up and see for yourself: She averaged 1.3 million per year in income from her books and donated all of it. Clinton is only rich because of Bill and has been forthright in giving back to others, while Obama has not. His tax returns show nearly all of his less than 1% in donations were to TUCC – a church who spends its money giving Rev. Wright a $1M home and a $10M open credit line unscrutinized by law. Take off those rose-colored glasses and look hard at the facts. Obama is not who he professes to be and is fooling half the democratic electorate.

Sure Obama looks beyond Rev. Wright but to the voters his character may be a issue. Obama may have used the shady characters he is associated with as stepping stones into the political arena.

Anne,
Your question, “How will Mr. Obama’s association with this movement influence his beliefs, ideas, and actions as President of the United States?” is legitimate. So what remains is whether or not your believe his answer. Obama has, in no uncertain terms, completely rejected Wright’s statements. He has been up front and honest about a difficult issue. Either you believe him or you won’t, and the only way to judge whether or not he is telling the truth is a judgement about his integrity. His response to Wright has been thoughtful and measured. When Wright had the chance to admit that his more controversial statements were wrong (AIDS, etc.) and didn’t, Obama broke with him and rightly so.
I happen to have a perspective on this church because I have a friend who attended it when she was a girl growing up in Chicago. She describes the church as rather mainstream and not radical at all. She doesn’t remember ever hearing comments like Wright’s. It’s a large, non-denominational church that attracts not just blacks, but whites too.
Wright’s comments are certainly incendiary, but he doesn’t necessarily speak in a general way to the beliefs of the congregation members any more than Pat Robertson’s explanation that Katrina happened because of America’s tolerance of homosexuality speaks for Christians who listen to his program.
And by the way, the “God damn America” clip that has so many people upset was said in the context of historical racial injustice in America. That is correct. God damn America for its racist past. The other stuff Wright has said is crazy, and his congregation knows it.
The problem is this clip is easy fodder for politicians. It’s “gotcha” journalism.
Obama has spoken about this forcefully, eloquently and believably. Hillary flatly lied several times about her trip to Bosnia. That doesn’t speak well to her integrity. Conversely, Obama’s handling of why he shouldn’t be held accountable for another person’s words has been very credible.

Was any elected official asked to resign when it was proven that some Catholic preist molested many children? No, because you cannot take a person to task because of what their pastor did. Start looking for another loophole.

Obama doesn’t want to help working people with gas costs this summer and he doesn’t want to help them with thier health care but only to force them to buy insurance on thier children. What does Obama offer to working people, nothing?

Of course he’s against it. It’s a bad idea. Stop listening to someone that will tell you anything to win and do the research

Grogia.
Im sure Obama knows everything about his pastor and the black liberation thealogy, James E Cone’s books were required reading for church members.And the truth about slavery is that it was started and created by very ancient gods in Africa, and was a normal system for thousand of years.These ancient gods slowly became insane , mad and evil.They had no cure for the madnes, and they left the Earth planet. But it dont matter about Obama or his pastor or church, Obama will never be president,we could not listen to his stemmerings for the next 4 years. And he can never change anything,only Hillary can turn the economy around.

TWO FACES OF HILLARY
When Bill Clinton, a husband, father, President, outspoken figure and spiritual confidante to Hillary betrayed her trust she didn’t “disown” him.
Yet Hillary responded to Rev. Wright’s remarks saying that she would leave his church, but she didn’t leave her husband over conduct much worse, being humiliated, offended and outraged.!

I hope George Stephanopolis is as critical and trivial when he interviews Hillary as he was to Obama in the ABC sponsored debate.

So true DS, that’s the issue in a nutshell….Obama has support from most of the super delegates in congress, people he has worked with on a daily basis, people who know him much better than we do, most of us only get bits and pieces of info fed to us from the media, a media that is trival and biased.

Sen. Obama pledged to bring our whole nation together. But he can’t even put a lid on his old pal─ the wild and crazy church preacher! People are confused about Sen. Obama. He was closed to this man for twenty long years who’s so full of violent contempt for America. Rev. Wright was the one who got Sen. Obama into politics. “Oh, it was just a sound-bite!” They say. Michelle Obama has some titillating sound bites for us too! Sen. Obama pretends this was all new to him. That’s why Rev. Wright accused Sen. Obama for acting like “a politician!” Believe me, we haven’t heard the end of this. This will drag on and on. And the discussion of issues, arguments, complaints, tirades, that’s been festering in for years will go on endlessly, as always. Some people make a career out of indulging this sort of activity. Some use it for make others feel guilty, manipulate others. It pays off to be stuck forever in this sort of identity politics. They’ll find something disagreeable under every blade of grass! Harvard Prof. Orlando Patterson claimed that Sen. Clinton’s 3am ad was racist, in an op-ed article to the New York Times, and they published it! Can you believe this? These people make a living out of doing this sort of activity. And they teach others to do the same! And in the same breath they complain about lack of advancement. I truly think some of us should be putting ourselves out of business for the benefit of others. These are people unable to progress; they hinder others from making progress─ they are stuck forever in the darkness of their hearts and souls. Even in country like ours that gives so much hope and opportunity even to a penniless immigrant like myself─ who arrived with only four dollars in my pocket! We need a president who can pay attention to real issues. We have many crisis that impacting us; gas and food prices, housing crisis, two raging wars, deteriorating infrastructure, failing education, looming energy shortage, global warming, lack of healthcare, social security and pensions, debt and banking crisis, and so on and on. Our country’s standards have fallen dramatically; we are now 40th in infant mortality and 41th in life expectancy, in the world. We are on the slippery slope of decline. We’ don’t want to get stuck discussing Rev. Wright’s identity issues forever and ever. While we stuck in this sort of mud other nations are passing us by very quickly ─soon enough, it wouldn’t make much sense to be equal in a place like this that’s gone to pieces like Grucho Marx said! Let’s not get stuck with crazy Rev. Wright and his friends. It was only president Clinton who was able to stop the decline of our country. In fact we made solid progress during Clinton years; we had an impressive surplus of 450 Billion! We were prosperous at home and well respected around the world. Nobody I know can hold a candle to Bill Clinton for his service to our country and the world! Our country desperately needs the “Clinton Model” back in place. We can’t indulge in inexperienced Sen. Obama. Therefore, that’s why I’d choose Sen. Hillary Clinton to be my president!

He would like to look beyond Wright since the whole world has listened to his fuming hatred of the white race. Obama has low morals and character. I hope America will not be misled by this pretender!!