Campaign Notes: Obama Betrayed By Wright - Clinton Avoids The Issue - McCain Enjoys It
First, a note on Jeremiah Wright. He has betrayed Barack Obama by sticking it to him in national settings, like the National Press Club. Wright seems like he’s on a one-man crusade to really hurt Obama’s campaign. Six weeks after Obama distanced himself, but offered faint praise for the fiery Pastor, Wright has expressed his gratitude by more emotional and controversial attacks, including some nasty references to Obama. It is obvious now that the Reverend is more interested in gratifying his ego than trying to keep out of the news and therefore assist Obama in fighting the racial polarization that Wright stands for.
Next step for Wright - an alliance the with the current king of anti-semitism, the 39th President Jimmy Carter. They would make a perfect wrecking crew for the chances of people of different backgrounds trying to understand each other. Jeremiah Wright is a sad case of power gone wrong, and the use of public power to help divide people, rather than bring them together.
Obama’s repudiation of Wright is welcomed.
Meantime, Hillary Clinton, who needs to take the high road, still has not condemned the GOP commercials in North Carolina that are linking Wright to Obama. They are racist in nature, and should be condemned by one and all.
John McCain condemns the commercials but at the same time has attacked Obama for knowing Wright in the first place.
The net result of all of this: a chance for Obama to stand tall during a time of trouble, much like Clinton did during her down days after the Bosnia flap and her early losing days in the primaries,
It is a pity that race has reared its ugly head in this campaign, primarily because of the ex-Pastor who may be remembered as the disciiple of division.
Larry, I should no longer be an issue in this campaign. If his opponents did not want to paint Obama as a radical black, I would have disappeared weeks ago. I’m trying to clear my reputation. If you listened to my speach the other night, instead of riding SEPTA or searching for free air, you would have heard me clearly delineating my positions. You, like my opponents, continue to throw Obama in with me like we are father and son (wouldn’t that be a revelation?). Continue to play the race card and threaten middle class white America into believing that Obama is a radical black from the 60’s. All you will serve to do is perpetuate the political machines that have brought you Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and both Bushs. Not to mention such stiffs as candidates as Mondale, Gore, Kerry, Dukakis, etc. Throw me under the bus if you don’t like what I say but don’t let the Clintons and McCain throw Obama under the bus with me. You of all people should see through this smoke screen beter than most. Say Hallelujah!
Larry, once again you play the anti-Semite card at the drop of a hat. President Carter is hardly an anti-Semite. It’s incredible of you to make that claim, especially without backing it up with any actual analysis. (We know it’s tough working without a prompter. But that’s not a fair excuse for your use of such a charged pejorative against an honorable man who is, whether you agree with his methods or not, working for peace.) I don’t see you doing as much to help Israel. So how about you stop hurling bigoted insults at someone who actually tries to make a positive difference in that part of the world and confine yourself to wringing your hands about “free air” and cleaning up SEPTA (where your vigilante secret identity is greatly appreciated)?
Hello Larry,well obama had another speech disowning rev wracist so everything is back to normal,Not,the rev wracist has all the dirt on obama in the last 20 years and we will hear more from the hateful ‘man of god’rev wracist.
obama was fresh on the seen talking how he would bring the races together but now the blacks vote black the whites vote white and now even the blacks are divided in the black church,the country does not need a moderator/basketball player but a president.
thank god Hillary has taken the High Road on one of the most embarrasing moments in american history.
Hillary taking the High Road will prove that she will stay out of gutter politics.
obama comes across as a nice passive person,but michelle comes across as mad and hard but in the end it won’t matter because obama train is running out of track,thank god Hillary did not quit when all the ‘experts’ media/politicians and bloggers called for her head.
Larry thanks for having a great report the best on the net,and i have been a fan since your tv (6) days.
GOD BLESS HILLARY AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Jack Russell, my friend, have you ever taken the time to listen to what I have to say? Beyond CNN sound bytes that is. You represent the demographic that both parties are trying to scare. Say Hallelujah!
Assuming you are not in fact a terrier, that is.
I gotta hand it to you Dems.You go from a presumed coronation (for Hillary of course)to a very interesting race to the absolute mess we see today.And while it may be accurate to say that those were sound bites before,that’s certainly no longer true.The good Reverend put on a show both Sunday & Monday & left Obama for dead.The Republicans are so boring by comparison.
rev wracist,i can smell a racist a mile away and obama’s mentor is a racist and hater of american system,thank god Hillary Clinton did not quit when the bias media demanded her,without Hillary the dems will have no (zero) shot to win in november,so all the dems that are ’scared’ to back Hillary get a dog and get on the Hillary bandwagon we’ll make room for the latecomers all races/religions and ages welcomed.
Thank the heavens that Hillary has you to spew all over yourself in the gutter, JR. Given the froth coming from your mouth, I think you might need to be checked for rabies.
leo my friend,i am not getting into a mudd slinging
contest,you know the facts are the facts and obama train is derailed,and you should get on your knees and pray to god and thank god,that
Hillary did not quit as demanded by the bias media and ’stuck on stupid’ people like you leon.
Sorry, JR, I’m a good liberal atheist. I don’t pray. Unlike Hillary, I also don’t prey on the tacit bigotry of the white working class and elderly towards those they don’t know or understand. The fact that she would capitalize on bigotry to try to score points makes her despicable. (Worse even than Larry’s verison of Jimmy Carter, to be sure.)
The facts are the facts. The candidate who has a tough time with the facts is the one who faced sniper fire in Bosnia, and whose hubby “did not have sexual relations with that woman” and granted numerous dubious pardons on a quid pro quo basis, etc., not the one who actually holds promise for us, despite the attempts of the narrow-minded to tear him down.
leo,Hillary’s bandwagon takes believers and non-believers even misguided rightwingers and of course all races,ages,religions the rich and the poor and of course the blue collar working middle class,’all aboard’ leo.
Sorry, JR, but I don’t lie down with dogs.
leo,that deserves a Hillary belly laugh lolol.
Does it occur to anybody else that the people most critical of Obama’s association with Jeramiah Wright are also the same ones who want to keep us divided? Obama has never gone anywhere near uttering the rhetoric of Wright or Sharpton. He has a different message that should actually resonate with conservatives. (Although conservative are hard to find anymore). How quickly have you forgottent he use of wedge issues to keep us divided? The people who harp on Obama over Wright have no more interest in unity than Wright himself does, which explains their glee (mock outrage) when he does the dirty work for them.
Geez, Larry, I missed the part when you said that CLinton “Stood tall” You mean when she copped out and said she was sleep deprived when she repeatedly lied about the key to her CinC credibility? The way she stood tall when she decided that the expedience of needing FL and MI votes was more important than her word when she insisted those primaries can’t be counted? The way she stood tall for her fellow Democrat when all she come up with about Obama was a “as far as I know” when she knew completely well that Obama was not a Muslim? Like the way she stood tall when she tried to insist that the pledged delegates don’t really need to vote for the person they are pledged to? Like the way she stood tall when she tries to take credit for her husband’s success, but hides from his failures? Like the way she is standing tall now, fighting for the consumer by advocating this idiotic gas tax holiday. Standing tall my ass.
SteveMG, two good posts. I think that Larry meant Hillary stood tall when she was falsely claiming that Obama has a relationship with Farrakhan, race baiting her key demographics in PA.
Or maybe Larry’s just joking about her short stature.
Larry still hasn’t called Rev Wright an anti-Semite! He flirts with it, by saying “the next thing Wright might do is associate with the King of all anti Semites- Jimmy Carter. First what’s with the Jimmy Carter obsession? We get it, he’s too cozy with Palestians, big deal, its not grounds for calling a former president anti semitic. It’s like calling Hillary Clinton murderer for her alleged involvement in Vince Foster death, its just crazy talk Larry, get a grip!
George, I’m forming a mental image of Larry composing his posts. It includes him sitting in front of the computer saying, “Anti-Semite. 60% of the time it works every time.” Stay classy, Philadelphia!
all this garbage about wright,who is a philadelphian by birth,went to central high and lived a pretty good life probably better than most of us,and is now looking at a big beautiful million dollar home on a golf course all because he has a big mouth and rants and raves
do all of you honestly believe that obama never knew any of this outrageous behavoir existed.I know if I missed a sermon at church,someone would call and say.oh my god you should have heard pastor, today,and then tell me what was said.Yeah right,obama knew.
Anyone else think Carter should’ve gone forehand on his shorthanded breakaway ? Ooops,wrong Carter,wrong blog.Leo,what exactly is a YBP ? I’m sure I don’t know you because the only Dems I know are family members.
pat, that was utterly uninformative. Thanks for playing!
YAP/YBP, say Hallelujah!
LB, attend church with me for 20 years and not only will you be cured of atheism but you may become President! Jack Russell, you are beyond hope. Can we have a big Hallelujah for Jack?
All, Larry has left the reservation like Jack Russell. Difference is Larry is not even checking his own blog. Jack made a week long retreat to the Clinton Shrine in Arkansas but returned to the blog.
LB, Larry’s blog is probably made with bits of real panther, so you know it’s good.
How tall did she stand when Bill was running around on her. I could understand sticking with him if it never happened again, but she got walked on for thirty years. I guess we’re supposed to believe that she’s channelled all that fighting energy for the little guy. I’ve said it before, she can’t afford to undo the executive abuses of this administration, because she’ll need that wall of secrecy and abuse of power to protect herself when she loses her party’s majority in the 2010 midterms. Restore habeous corpus? Are you kidding? The CLintons have always folded under the wedge issues and she won’t have the guts to put a stop to the abuse of prisoners.
SteveMG, as you point out, Hillary also stood tall when she exposed Chelsea to a philandering adulterer of a father for decades. Now there are some family values. I don’t think she deserves a sympathy vote just because Bill couldn’t keep it in his pants.
SteveMG, she stuck with him because she needed him to get where she is today… a stones throw from the White House. Without him she would never be in the position she is today. I’m not sure which is the more despicable. Say Hallelujah!
Larry, you’re quick to accuse people of racism, ageism, and an anti-semitism. You need to stop. You’re not that good of a journalist. Get a staff to write for you, then post that. You can even look into a mirror and pretend that’s a monitor if it helps.
Rev Wright:
1)why are you throwing JR under the bus?
2)is there any truth that michelle obama is furious about ‘another woman’ that is linked to obama?
3)where do racist and skirt or shirt chasing ‘men of god’ go when they die?
Leo Bloom:
1)where do atheist go when they die?
2)do the obama contributors ever make their credit card payments after they make a impulse donation?
3)why do you call yap-ybp?
SteveMG:
1) why are you so hung up on the Clinton’s personnel marriage business?
2)will you support Hillary Clinton if she is the nominee?
JR:
1)why do you call rev wright-rev wracist?
2)why are you such a loyal Bill and Hillary Clinton supporter even when you are attacked and criticized by other bloggers?
Rose Bush,
1) Why are you asking so many questions?
2) Where do skirt chasing men go when they die? Vegas? We’ll see when Bill Clinton dies.
3) Why throw JR under the bus? Actually he throws himself under the bus everyday with his blogs. I just back up the bus to insure we didn’t miss.
4) Where do racist men go when they die? Fox News? I wonder where LBJ is.
Say Hallelujah, Rose!
Rose,
Atheists go where everyone else goes. We are all just sophisticated organic electrochemical reactions. When the body stops, so does everything else. There is no life after death. That’s just wishful thinking on the part of people who cannot fathom the idea that their existence is finite. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The cosmos doesn’t love you. It doesn’t love anyone. So get out there and enjoy life. This is it. To paraphrase Vonnegut, you’re just some mud that was lucky enough to get to sit up and look at all the other mud. If you want to know what death feels like, just think about what you experienced before you were born.
LB, very deep. Like Deep Thoughts from Jack Handy.
RW, LOL
Rose Bush, I get the name you thorny wench
Rosie, Clinton’s marriage is her problem, but shen somebody wants to tell me that she is somehow a pillar of strength, it becomes part of that discussion. As far as the fall election, what I don’t trust about Clinton is exactly what I have been saying. If I don’t think she’ll restore the system of checks and balances, if I don’t trust her to restore habeous corpus, stop the practice of aabusing prisoners, restore the independence of the DOJ, I will vote for McCain because otherwise, both parties will have actively played their part in abondoning the Constitutution. I also think that the extremes she went to portray her CinC cred show me that she is actually insecure, and that she’ll let the Generals walk all over her to avoid controversy. If McCain wins, at least the Democrats will remain in some opposition role, however weak.
As far as both McCain and Clinton, neither seem interested in tapping the greatness of our nation. They seem to settle for using the power of the government, to manipulate policy and tug on this string or that string to make things happen.
SteveMG, apart from her dishonesty, my biggest problem with Hillary is that I don’t trust her to govern responsibly. By that, I mean I expect her to try to cudgel anyone who disagrees with her into submission. I think that’s fundamentally a losing proposition. That’s the Bush II approach to governance. I expect Obama would do a better job of understanding that the country is at a point at which people need to be rallied around our common hopes so we can start a more productive dialog about our national identity and values (i.e., who we are, and what we aspire to be, as Americans).
By the way, did anyone else see that Fox News thought that the Lincoln/Douglas debates were between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas? Anything to keep the race angle going, I guess. What a bunch of ninnies.
Rosebush, how can you bring up the Obama’s alledged infidelity when Bill Clinton is a certified, serial philanderer? Do you have a double standard for the Clintons like their lapdog JR?
It is funny, it has now become acceptable for White people to speak out on topics of race where they are critical of other White people. However, if a Black person speaks out about topics of race and is critical of White people they are BBQ’d!
We are standing by and allowing this racist double standard to exist and perpetuate.
The statements made by Rendell and Fuomo would be deemed hateful and anti-American if made by a Black person.
Personally, I think the Arkansas Mafia got to Wright - they must have some dirt on him and that got him to flip to the dark side (Clinton) and do their bidding, which is inflict indirect damage to Obama.
Remember their “scorched earth” strategy back when Slick Willie got pinched for getting Lewinskied in the White House - you started to see revelations about Republicans planted in the press every few months, gleaned from Hillary & staffs illegal perusal of confidential FBI files.
Go up against the Clintons (and have any success) and expect to be scorched by the Arkansas Mafia. It was only a matter of time. But I must admit Obama had courage in doing so.
As for Jimmah Carter - I don’t know if he’s an anti-Semite at heart, but he always seems to take the side of groups against Israel. And if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then the friend of my enemy is my enemy.
He should just move to Gaza and start “Habitats for Hamas” and stay there.
Joe, how is listening to someone taking sides against Israel? Whose side has he taken against Israel in the past? Specific examples would be helpful. Larry smears him as “King” of the anti-Semites. The Arabs are Semitic people, too, Larry. (Look up Semite in your dictionary. It’s the big book with the words in alphabetical order.) So if he’s in fact pro-Arab, which I would dispute, he can hardly be anti-Semitic. Please stop slurring him, Larry, especially if you’re going to do so in such an inaccurate fashion.
Israel has flipped the meaning of anti-Semitic. It USED TO mean people who didn’t like Jews. Now it means people who Jews don’t like.
Now you are anti-Semitic if you show any compassion to the Arabs or if you point out the hundreds of UN violations that Israel has accumulated.
I agree that Israel has a right to exist. But let’s not pretend that the Palestinians and Syrians are the only ones committing attrocities in that region.
So what happens to all the preachers preaching “We shall Overcome” when Obama becomes Prez…yes an AA as Prez will throw the black preachers who are holding their parshioners down by blaming whitey for EVERYTHING won’t be able to preach hate anymore!
So that’s Wrights game…
READ THIS:
The most amazing thing about the 2008 presidential race is not that a black man is a bona fide contender, but the lukewarm response he has received from the luminaries whose sacrifices made this run possible. With the notable exception of Joseph Lowery, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference veteran who gave a stirring invocation at Obama’s Atlanta campaign rally in June and subsequently endorsed him, Obama has been running without much support from many of the most recognizable black figures in the political landscape.
That’s because, positioned as he is between the black boomers and the hip-hop generation, Obama is indebted, but not beholden, to the civil rights gerontocracy. A successful Obama candidacy would simultaneously represent a huge leap forward for black America and the death knell for the reign of the civil rights-era leadership — or at least the illusion of their influence.
The most recent example of the old guard’s apparent aversion to Obama was Andrew Young’s febrile YouTube ramblings about Bill Clinton being “every bit as black as Barack Obama” and his armchair speculation that Clinton had probably bedded more black women during his lifetime than the senator from Illinois — as if racial identity could be transmitted like an STD.
MORE
http://www.faithandthecity.org/issues/social/articles/Civil-rights-leaders-aloof-from-Obama.shtml
Point 1. Anti-Semitism was coined in the 15th century during the European persecution of the Jewish people — specific against Jews, Sephardi or Ashkenazi. No Arabs included.
2. Each person is a unique biological composition. So is the dynamism of brainwaves as she/he grows. Like you and I, Reverend Jeremiah Wright is one and only. His uniqueness includes sizeable memory of events, his fluency in referring
to these events, and the willingness to express his thoughts in public.
3. Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, 20 years ago (he said) went to church and met Rev. Wright. He liked the church and so admired its Pastor that he (BHO) had JW officiated on his wedding, baptized his children, adopted/adapted JW’s thoughts, and cribbed a few phrases of Reverend Wright’s.
The issue against Mr. Barack Hussein Obama is that he is making a false public image of himself cloaked with a collage of cribbed ideas. He is hollow. Especially when he has no cloak. He is a very good speaker, a true mark of a good shill touting for the Presidency, no less.
4. Since its inception, the Electoral College have installed as President of these United States a full-blooded American with ancestries going three, four, five generations back. A very reassuring traditional history.
Mr. Barack Hussein Obama is a 46-year-old first generation half-Kenyan demagogue stealing the ideas of the full-blooded American Rev. JW from Philadelphia. A very discomforting thought.
diosdado you forgot your heil at the end of that.
People like diosdado(given66) are exactly why we need Obama or Hillary as President. Decades of ignorance and racism need to be swept away.
rose-Larry knows,i have been a Hillary backer since day one,Clinton bashers are a dime a dozen,so the insults and attacks are part of the game,
as far as rev.racist gives the good pastors and preachers a bad name,when a man of god uses the bible and god to hide racism,greed and perverted actions it is the lowest form of human life.
Larry,it’s a big week for obama and Clinton next week obama is a heavy favorite in N.C.and also a favorite in indiana,obama’s victory in N.C. must be over ten points if anything less will be a Clinton triump,
Indiana obama’s border state if Hillary wins indiana that will be quite an upset and if she wins N.C.well that is a miracle.
if obama loses both races it’s Hillary’s game,the only way obama crosses the finish line is if john kerry and bill richardson each carries obama’s legs across the finish line lolol,but all is not lost for obama
a backroom deal with Bill Clinton will offer obama the vp (a good move for obama)(although john edwards should be the vp)and obama can drop out of the race with dignity.
i know the Clinton bashers will say this is crazy but it will end the race and have the best candidate as prez and the black candidate as vp,call me crazy,but i’ve been on mark with Hillary from day one.
if obama does not take that deal then he will have to deal with Hillary bringing the heat at a higher level.
JR, you’re spinning so fast your fur is falling out. The fact that Hillary has engaged in Jesse Helms tactics to suppress the black vote in NC is telling, and she was hurt seriously today by the defection of one of her key IN superdelegates, who was a former DNC leader. If she doesn’t win in both IN and NC by significant margins, I think this is over.
And where do you get that Obama is favored in IN? It’s demographics are similar to Ohio and PA. If she doesn’t win by double digits there, it shows that her race/ageist appeal isn’t holding.
JR, you are crazy!
Hi there.
I think that Leo Bloom has a problem with me saying how I feel about people who divide others by doing stupid things, like ignoring their governments wishes and meeting with killers.
Leo, as far as your repeated comments about my TV work: you have no idea what you’re talking about. But I do enjoy your edge. You should have your own talk show.
Thanks to the Rev. Wright, or whoever it is, for chiming in. I didn’t know that the Pastor could take time out from his search for a literary agent.
As far as Diasdato? Your comments about Obama show some rage and anger.
What’s the problem?
Larry
I apparently have more time for your blog than you do, Larry. Between my rubber chicken dinner speaches and my weekly sermons, I find time for your glorious blog. Say Hallelujah!
I’ve been outta town for a bit but it’s sure good to be back in Killadelphia.Now Leo,it’s not only me but Rose & the Rev & who knows how many others you’re confusing.Time to come clean.