Clinton Supporter Invited Wright
April 29th, 2008 - 8:40 am
From Ben Smith at Politico:
Obama’s campaign has disavowed Wright’s media tour, and a correspondent notes an interesting detail:
Wright was invited to the National Press Club by a journalist and minister who supports Clinton.
The Tribune reports that Wright was invited by Barbara Reynolds, a former USA Today editorial board member who has written on personal blog of her support for Clinton.
That Hillary.
Good for her to coax him out into a public venue where he had the opportunity to speak his mind. He had the choice on what he wanted to say, though. Nobody twisted his arm. The insanity that spewed forth is entirely of his own doing. Nobody to blame but himself.
What an idiot. And Obama’s a bigger one for hitching himself to that wagon. This is going to be quite a flame-out.
The super delegates for the Dems are really in a pickle. They can choose the short-term pain, select The Messiah for their candidate, and watch November get flushed. Or, they can choose Hillary, and watch the Democrat Party splinter into lots of tiny pieces. Either way, lots of people are going to be really pissed off.
Identify politics are finally coming home to roost. Oh, wait. That line’s been used already!
Hey that’s just good politics. And like her or not, she knows is politics.
Yeah, this one’s a no-brainer. And better her than McCain, who probably wouldn’t have done so. The end-result service to the country of having this clown come out and second his own emotions trumps any political or cynical means.
I keep thinking about Bush 41 and his ‘thousand points of light’.
When a primary light source fades and another takes its place, what had previously been in the shadows might now become illuminated if the new source is sufficiently distant.
I need to think about this some more, so that I can impress you with my wisdom — a wisdom which can be found nowhere else upon this illuminated earth.
Encore de martini!
(When is Steve coming back? this pressure sucks I’m retired you know)
A Clinton supporter gave Obama a chance to denounce Wright? Sounds like her entire campaign: snagging defeat from the slurping maw of victory.
The superdelegates have gone more to Obama than Clinton even after this Wright nonsense got on the radar. Since the primaries started, he’s had a lead in what matters: delegates. He’s going to be the nominee. She won’t. Just end the fantasies now.
And I don’t think tying Obama to Wright is going to be a good General Election strategy for the Republicans (though of course it will happen anyway.) There is enough footage of McCain-endorsing preachers saying wacko stuff out there to make independent voters associate McCain with Jew-hatred, anti-Catholic insanity, anti-women bigotry, unscientific viewpoints, and more. If preachers become the focus of this election, the GOP will lose. They would be wise to stick to their popular war, great economic plans, and fiscal restraint if they want to win in November.
“He’s going to be the nominee. She won’t. Just end the fantasies now.”
Lookin’ into my own crystal ball now, Jon, and mine is not nearly as clear as yours. Mine only reaches out about 24 hours, so I’m truly grateful for your clairvoyance in this matter. You see, it’s the end of April, and in my world the election happens in November.
I’m actually hearing from some crystal-ball gazers that after the collapse of the world-as-we-know-it, the nominee will certainly be the all-knowing and omnipotent Algore!
Thanks for settling that unsettling thought.
.. and the crowd loved him.
Is that sick or what ?
Stephen Green was a Freedom Rider in 1961.
You hide your age well.
I think Hillary wants to use Rev. Wright in order to turn voters away from Obama. Obama was right in denouncing Rev. Wright’s comments, but at the same time I think the media dramatized Wright’s comments.
Everyone knows the fact that historically African-Americans were inhumanely treated by the USA and their voices, rights have been supresses. Today this does not exist at such a large scale, but racism and race issues is something that needs to be addressed constantly. There are other minority groups as well, who feel their needs/voices have been ignored. You can’t just call them crazy and dismiss what they have to say.