Posted on 03/19/2008 2:54:22 AM PDT by suspects
Forget the Straight Talk Express. Barack Obama’s campaign has the biggest bus in this presidential campaign and yesterday he threw everybody under it.
Even his grandmother.
As a former speechwriter myself, I was looking forward to Obama’s remarks yesterday because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how anyone could talk themselves out of Obama’s predicament. How does Obama - the Kumbaya Candidate - explain his 20 years at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s black power church? How does a uniter spend every Sunday in the pews where anti-white, anti-Semitic and anti-American conspiracies and kookery are preached on a regular basis?
It’s like discovering that John McCain is a closet pacifist, or that Hillary Clinton is Rush Limbaugh’s Client No. 9.
Yesterday I got my answer. Blame everyone.
I knew we were in trouble when Obama compared the hapless but harmless Geraldine Ferraro with the Rev. Wright on the “racial insensitivity” scale. And invoking the memory of the O.J. Simpson trial in a speech on racial unity left some of us wondering if the Tawana Brawley references were cut at the last minute.
Obama did say that some of Wright’s comments were “wrong” and “divisive.” He also admitted that he had in fact been in church for some comments that “could be considered controversial - just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagree.”
Uh, no.
As a graduate of Oral Roberts University who grew up attending church five times a week - including tent revivals, healing services and the handling of less-than-friendly reptiles - I can honestly say that I never attended a service where the minister preached race hatred, anti-Israel paranoia or used the phrase “ridin’ dirty” in a theological context.
And other than Obama...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
“I have an excuse” Speech
BAWHAH! That is the line of the day, even better then “ridin dirty in a Theological context”.
Throwin’ Granny under the bus, my goodness my goodness
Uh, no. We attended a church for several years. Gradually the messages started changing. The first time I heard something I strongly disagreed with was the last time I attended that church.
This whole thing answers soooo many questions, I think it is good. I could never understand how after so many years, with so much opportunity vicitmhood was still alive and well. Now I know and it is very apparent that we will never get beyond race if this is the norm in black churches.
I have never been to church where race has been brought up. Church for me is finding strength in Christ to be a better person.
I also find it disgusting that Rev. Wright preaches his hate under the guise of Christianity. Talk about blasphemy.
And I’ve lived in the mid-west, the South, the West, gone to church multiple times a week, fellow-shipped with black congregations - never, ever have I heard one slur against any race - nothing but love and acceptance to all.
These folks (Obamas, Wrights, et al) are hauling around a load of baggage. Not fit to lead, in my opinion. They will stir up the pot of strife in the land, and propagate hate and misunderstanding.
Everybody under the BACK of the bus! When Obama is no longer a threat to America, I may actually feel sorry for him. He is a middle aged man who has no idea who he is, and his subconscious self-loathing causes him to bite the hands that have fed him, from his grandmother to his mother country. Now that the facade of being a unifier has been cracked, he has nothing left. Pray that he does some sincere soul-searching and reparation of his own.
Black callers to Rush yesterday state that it is the norm... we just don't “understand the language”. Yeah... goebbels is proud of osamabama.
LLS
Good one, Mike! Just a correction: Obama through everyone under the bus except Wright.
Michael Graham Ping!
When our bishop in So.Fla voted FOR the ordination of a homosexual bishop, (robinson) we left that episcopal church we had worshiped in 12 years. About 80 others followed and started a new church!!!
Doh!
Just keepin' it real yo. Are you feelin' me dog?
I'm so tired of hearing this claptrap. First of all, after Texas and Ohio, Hitlery had a net loss of delegates compared to Obama. Go look up the numbers. Secondly, even if she had lost bigger, that would not have been the killer to get her to quit the race. Sheesh, even Romney only suspended his campaign. Hitlery would have done no less and would have been in a perfect position to get back in after this Obama implosion.
You Rush-haters need to stop listening to the liberals and use your own brains for a while.
BTTT
Yesterday I got my answer. Blame everyone
I finnally get it. Hope and Change. He HOPES we can all CHANGE our filthy racist ways and join the united states of non-acountability
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Obama wants to be President of the country his minister thinks should be damned by God. Where does that leave the voter? Should voters endorse a man who doesn’t like and has no faith in the country?
Very well said. The cleverness of Obama’s oratory is often, as I expect it’s designed to be, mind-boggling.
We're in a war and facing a very serious economic crisis. The next president will have to secure the border, direct national security, and stimulate the economy. There is no time to wander down memory lane rehearsing and reviewing racial conflict from the Garden of Eden to the Civil War and 1960s Selma, Alabama, inside the mind of a very confused Harvard liberal who hangs around with ignoramus race-baiting preachers of the Sharpton and Farrakhan mold. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If anyone had described that a year ago - or 20 years ago! - as a formula for winning the presidency they would have come across as a lunatic which is about where this is right now.
Best Line Of The Day (as heard from a caller to the “Grandy & Andy Morning Show” - WMAL, Washington, DC)
[Paraphrasing] — “If Obama is president and the phone rings at 3 o’clock in the morning, and there’s a crisis or catastrophe in the world, who is he going to call? He’s going to call the Rev. Jeremiah Wright!”
This caller is so right!!!
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