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Obama’s Explanation For His Long-Term Association With Wright Strains Our Credulity
Beacon Street Journal ^ | 3/17/08 | John Kinsellagh

Posted on 03/17/2008 1:20:04 PM PDT by beacon street bandit

From the very start, Barack Obama's attempt to distance himself from the controversial sermonizing and policies of his pastor Jeremiah Wright has resembled someone trying to thread a needle. When asked at the Democratic debate in Cleveland about the racist Louis Farrakhan's endorsement of his candidacy, Obama's visage became strained, and his subsequent response to the question about whether he agreed with the views of Farrakhan, was measured, pained, judicious and less

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacktheology; controversy; democrats; jeremiahsmessiah; jerimiahwright; liberalracism; nobama; obama; politicsofoppression
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1 posted on 03/17/2008 1:20:06 PM PDT by beacon street bandit
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To: beacon street bandit
I guess we're all racists for demanding answers to tough questions from HUSSEIN Obama, huh?

Man...I hope this completely derails that dope's campaign for good.

2 posted on 03/17/2008 1:21:44 PM PDT by Digital Sniper (Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
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To: beacon street bandit

Chump Change - Obama ‘08

The Audcaity of Questioning My Motives


3 posted on 03/17/2008 1:27:05 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: beacon street bandit
It's his “smoked but didn't inhale” moment and he's hoping it works for him like it did for Bubba.
4 posted on 03/17/2008 1:27:14 PM PDT by Redgirl (Obama - all hat, no cattle)
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To: Redgirl

Maybe he could try the “I fall asleep during the sermons just like everybody else” excuse.


5 posted on 03/17/2008 1:30:19 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: beacon street bandit

The explanation is that he is a hate-Whitey racist and he got caught.


6 posted on 03/17/2008 1:32:12 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: beacon street bandit

Senator Obama, “If you are elected President, is the judgment you’ve demonstrated in the selection of Rev. Wright as Pastor, Mentor, and Spiritual Adviser, indicative of the judgment we can expect in the selection of members of your cabinet?”


7 posted on 03/17/2008 1:32:19 PM PDT by MrTed ("...at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow...", will it be before or after one's death?)
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To: beacon street bandit

He might as well just say: “Alright dammit I was never in that church, not even once. It;s all a farce. I paid Wright $21,000 to say I was a Christian. OK, folks, you got me, I’m a Muslim and proud of it.”


8 posted on 03/17/2008 1:32:51 PM PDT by AbeKrieger (There is a special place in Hell for Lyndon Johnson.)
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To: MrTed
Senator Obama, “If you are elected President, is the judgment you’ve demonstrated in the selection of Rev. Wright as Pastor, Mentor, and Spiritual Adviser, indicative of the judgment we can expect in the selection of members of your cabinet?”

... justices for nomination to the supreme court, decisions to defend the United States from external attacks...

9 posted on 03/17/2008 1:34:56 PM PDT by AbeKrieger (There is a special place in Hell for Lyndon Johnson.)
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To: beacon street bandit

I am certain Rev Wright influenced Obama’s views on national security and foreign policy. Wright is the source of Obama’s insistence that he will meet with our worst enemies without any conditions. That is an approach rejected even by most democrat politicians, it is straight out of Wright’s sermons castigating the USA for supposedly villifying Castro, Qaddafi, et al.


10 posted on 03/17/2008 1:35:27 PM PDT by Williams
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To: beacon street bandit

To believe Obama, would it call for the willing suspension of disbelief?


11 posted on 03/17/2008 1:36:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber ("Bullfighting, Mountain Climbing and Auto-Racing are the only real sports.)
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To: beacon street bandit
Why is not anyone using his own words, that shows he's lied at the very first, against him?

His first words were that he had never heard the inflammatory rhetoric and wasn't aware of it.

Later he says they were worried at the beginning of his campaign a YEAR ago that the Bullfrog's rhetoric might harm him and even he an the Rev, discussed the possibility that he might have to distance himself from him in the future.

By his own admission - he HAS known all along.

Why is no one pointing this out.

There is also, in one of those incendiary tapes, where the Bullfrog mentions “O” as being IN THE AUDIENCE and points at him!!!!! the Bullfrog puts him present. “And there is one here today....”

12 posted on 03/17/2008 1:37:41 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: Emmett McCarthy
It can be verified whether or not he was in attendance.
However it would require the help and assistance of the
race-baiters at the church (which by the way we know will not happen).
Ministers date their messages and their message. Also,
most churches have “thithing envelopes; thereby allowing for a record of the date and day the “tithe” was given for
tax purposes.
We simply need to find the date of the racist sermons and the church records for Obama’s “thithing” and put the two together.
13 posted on 03/17/2008 1:40:50 PM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: Digital Sniper

I am with you. I want this guy pushed out of the way. He is dangerous for this nation, and I don’t want him within any reach of the White House.


14 posted on 03/17/2008 1:42:17 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To keep this story alive we need to find new hateful speeches and get them releases little by little.

Like 1 new speech a week and also offer $$$$ to people who has Obama on tape when the speeches are given.


15 posted on 03/17/2008 1:45:30 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: Emmett McCarthy
Maybe he could try the “I fall asleep during the sermons just like everybody else” excuse.

If I'm not mistaken, he already has. And no, I'm not buying that one either.

Unless Wright is legitimately schizophrenic and acted rationally whenever Obama was in church, Obama had to have known Wright's 'values' for most of his time as a member in TUCC.

16 posted on 03/17/2008 1:48:01 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Redgirl
It's his “smoked but didn't inhale” moment and he's hoping it works for him like it did for Bubba.

As much as I hate Bill's lie about the smoking thing, by itself whether he smoked or not only goes to his credibility. Obama's answer goes to the US social fabric and security: is he going to build a Black nation out of the USA?

17 posted on 03/17/2008 1:49:13 PM PDT by paudio (Conservatism: like it or not, it's a word with multiple meanings.)
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To: Digital Sniper

That’s been BHO’s strategy all along.

Whoever opposes him, for any reason, is a racist.

He’s supposed to have this big speech about race tomorrow.

Look for denial, obfuscation, then projection.

Then we’ll see if his ‘flock’ still follows.


18 posted on 03/17/2008 1:49:44 PM PDT by rock_lobsta (Client #10)
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To: Digital Sniper

I do, too, even if it means that Hillary is the nominee.


19 posted on 03/17/2008 1:57:20 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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To: MrTed

And uncle. Don’t forget uncle.


20 posted on 03/17/2008 1:58:00 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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