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The date: September 11, 1998
The venue: The White House The occasion: Bill Clinton's high-profile, televised repentance event with nationally prominent ministers, avowing that he'd prayed and prayed and was changing his tawdry ways. Oh and who's this shaking Bill's hand? *snap!* I don't particularly like this tactic of strategic photo leaks as attack, but I'd say this one fits safely in the defence category. What it does is show that Wright, despite those views (before or after), was nonetheless a fairly well-respected man of the cloth. Which is the very point currently being missed by so many people as they lap up the Wright=all bad, and Obama=Wright bullshit being pumped out by the networks. Wha..? Another Rev Wright besides the 'God Damn America' nutcase? I can hear the minds of millions of voters popping at this very second.... |
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Yes precisely, though I fear the thought process of the intellectually challenged (I'm sorry, I say that with no arrogance intended) will be a typical exercise in us vs them / win vs lose simple tribalism. It will go something like this...
1) Obama is trying to link Clinton to Wright. 2) But Clinton was never as close to Wright as Obama was. 3) Therefore Obama loses. Will be interesting to see how this one pans out, whether the important points to draw from it are broadly lost on people, and how Obama himself responds. |
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ok this simply rocks the beat that rocks the party. Guess who's backing up Obama in the wake of the Wright affair? I mean besides Bill Richardson?
Mike Huckabee. And one other thing I think we've gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say "That's a terrible statement!"...I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack -- and I'm gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you -- we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told "you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus..." And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.WOW this along with his beautiful resignation speech, I think this guy's pretty cool. |
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I'd second that, despite how fundamentally I disagree with him on certain things.
Not many Republicans would have agreed with that, let alone felt it worth their while speaking out about. (< God that grammar was painful) |
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I would like other politicians, even ones with something still to gain in this election to also come forward against this smear. |
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yes, it was so beautiful. |
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this election is un fucking believable. I am blown away everytime i catch up on the news.
Today: Chris Wallace of Fox News goes on TV to put his own network to task for their blatant smear. I mean this is drama, folks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiIK8jh3ZCE the looks on the fox anchors are priceless |
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