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Glenn Beck: Obama's odd timing on Wright
CNN.Com ^ | 5/5/2008 | GlennBeck CNN.Com

Posted on 05/05/2008 9:53:22 AM PDT by F15Eagle

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama is moving away from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright so fast he may claim to be an atheist by next weekend. The ongoing sprint from such a polarizing figure is far from a surprise, it's just the timing of it that is so odd.

A New York Times editorial described the recent developments like this:

"In the last few days, in a series of shocking appearances, he [Wright] embraced the Rev. Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitism. He said the government manufactured the AIDS virus to kill blacks. He suggested that America was guilty of "terrorism" and so had brought the 9/11 attacks on itself."

Shocking? Every one of these opinions of Wright has been part of the public record for months. It's no more shocking than Angelina Jolie coming out in favor of adoption.

Even in the schizophrenic world of politics, it's unclear how to accomplish the mental gymnastics required to make sense of all of this. The media's love affair with Obama makes them ask us to believe that Obama was courageous for defending Wright in his Philadelphia speech on race and also courageous for throwing him under the bus six weeks later for the exact same opinions.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008; election; glennbeck; indiana; nobama; northcarolina; obama; obamatruthfile; stopobama
The media's love affair with Obama makes them ask us to believe that Obama was courageous for defending Wright in his Philadelphia speech on race and also courageous for throwing him under the bus six weeks later for the exact same opinions.

Best part of the whole thing ...
1 posted on 05/05/2008 9:53:22 AM PDT by F15Eagle
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To: F15Eagle

Agreed. A Rep would never get away with that.


2 posted on 05/05/2008 9:57:07 AM PDT by HoustonTech
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To: HoustonTech

The only thing he moved away from faster was his white grandmother. He threw her under the bus long ago.


3 posted on 05/05/2008 9:59:59 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: F15Eagle; Fred Nerks; Grampa Dave; LucyT; Jeff Head

a no-brainer that Obama would hang around Trinity for twenty years and get pastorized by some loser racist Farrakhan wannabe tantalizingly echoing back Obama’s loathing of his mother’s race, and rolling up ‘black authenticity’ street creds for himself while at it.

But when the inevitable ‘Obama the Muslim’ stories got planted by the Clintons, Obozo rolls out ol’ pastor Jeremiah to ‘reassure’ ‘whitey’, but it’s a heckuva hapless maneuver when your ‘mentor’ and ‘sounding board’ sounds more like Ayman al-Zawahiri than Billy Graham.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010601/posts


4 posted on 05/05/2008 10:02:57 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: F15Eagle; All
FYI..Real Clear Politics has a link to an article in this week's New York magazine...not worth posting..but take a look, especially the second page.."About That Crush on Obama"..written by a lib, very pro-Obama, but he makes the point that the vast majority of the MSM supports Obama, then he asks rhetorically.."if the public is rejecting Obama, then were we ( the MSM) wrong about him"..Hello!!! Ya think??

BTW, in the piece, the author refers to Obama's appeal among he and his ilk as because Obama is a "metrosexual" Wow!!!..That term of art has disappeared of late..and this is the first time I've seen it used to describe Obama..It's true..it's a perfect description...and explains why the voters are running away from him, and his poll numbers are dropping..

5 posted on 05/05/2008 10:05:37 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: Parley Baer
Whose next?

6 posted on 05/05/2008 10:06:08 AM PDT by shineon
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To: F15Eagle
May all segments of the Democratic rainbow coalition be of the following mind when dealing with one another throughout the rest of their primary and then onto the convention floor.

"To the last, I will grapple with thee. From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!"

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

7 posted on 05/05/2008 10:15:40 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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8 posted on 05/05/2008 10:23:00 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

LOL!


9 posted on 05/05/2008 10:24:59 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: F15Eagle

If only Obama’s pastor had been Cab Calloway!


10 posted on 05/05/2008 10:28:26 AM PDT by Mancolicani
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To: LucyT

rotflol


11 posted on 05/05/2008 10:31:01 AM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: F15Eagle
Indeed. It wasn't twenty years of "G.D. America!" and wild conspiracy theories that led Obama to finally disown Wright. It was a few weeks of long overdue scrutiny, and falling poll numbers.

In fact, a Rasmussen poll found that only 36% of Democrats believe that Obama disowned Wright because of genuine outrage over his views.

The mediots can sell this crap all day long if they want to. But America isn't buying it.

12 posted on 05/05/2008 10:38:31 AM PDT by Wade827 (Job 21:3)
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To: Parley Baer

he did that because he knows he will never get the old woman, racist vote. Hillary has that all sewn up.


13 posted on 05/05/2008 10:42:02 AM PDT by newnhdad
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To: george76

Has anyone asked Obama about his favorite passage of scripture or which stories from the Bible resonate best with him? Which ones convict him? With which ones he struggles? What about his baptism and public profession of faith? Moreover, which ministries of the church have he and Michelle been most involved in? What positions of leadership has he held in the church over the past 20 years?
Surely, a man with leadership gifts capable of being POTUS would have held high positions in his church?


14 posted on 05/05/2008 10:42:17 AM PDT by Notasoccermom
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To: LucyT

ROFL!!!!!


15 posted on 05/05/2008 10:42:48 AM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Notasoccermom; Beckwith

BO dodges his baptism questions.


16 posted on 05/05/2008 10:49:36 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Jeff Head
"May all segments of the Democratic rainbow coalition be of the following mind when dealing with one another throughout the rest of their primary and then onto the convention floor. "To the last, I will grapple with thee. From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!"

Excellent sentiment and I second the motion!
17 posted on 05/05/2008 12:07:44 PM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("Typical 'bitter' 'White Male" whose vote the Dems now desperately want so bad - HA!)
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To: george76
...but it’s a heckuva hapless maneuver when your ‘mentor’ and ‘sounding board’ sounds more like Ayman al-Zawahiri than Billy Graham.

LOL! I love it...

18 posted on 05/05/2008 2:57:29 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
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