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Voters Don't Forget Rev. Wright
WSJ ^

Posted on 06/03/2008 6:33:40 PM PDT by wsjreader

Some worrying signs for Barack Obama emerged Tuesday from the final two primaries of the long Democratic presidential nominating race. With the nomination all but sewed up, the Illinois Democrat showed weaknesses in South Dakota in particular that rival Hillary Clinton's campaign has warned could haunt him in November. According to early exit polls, voters Tuesday appeared to have strong concerns about his two decades of membership in Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. More than a third of voters in South Dakota said the issue was important to them, following Sen. Obama's announcement this week that he would leave his church after inflammatory statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and others from the Trinity pulpit. Of those voters, about two-thirds voted for Sen. Clinton, according to early exit polls. In Montana, voters also appeared to have doubts about the Trinity controversy. .

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: obama; sd2008; wright

1 posted on 06/03/2008 6:33:40 PM PDT by wsjreader
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To: wsjreader

The Obamao does not need those Pastors anymore, he needs an Excorcist to rid himself of the ghosts that have come to live in his name and campaign...

And the clock is ticking on that....


2 posted on 06/03/2008 6:38:00 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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To: wsjreader

Oh just suspend your intellect and reason and vote for the guy.Don’t wanna be labeled a bigot do you?


3 posted on 06/03/2008 6:38:07 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Farmer Dean

The guy is my worst nightmare and I really don’t give a hoot what they label me. Amen


4 posted on 06/03/2008 6:41:12 PM PDT by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: Farmer Dean
"Oh just suspend your intellect and reason and vote for the guy.Don’t wanna be labeled a bigot do you?"

Funny, sad, and true.

5 posted on 06/03/2008 6:57:28 PM PDT by teawithmisswilliams (Basta, already!)
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To: wsjreader

“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” -Booker T. Washington (1856-1915).


6 posted on 06/03/2008 6:57:56 PM PDT by littlehouse36 (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable - JFK)
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To: wsjreader

I think I would rather be a racist bigot, than an ageist temporophobe.

There are worse things than McCain...and THAT is the problem: we should have had someone better.


7 posted on 06/03/2008 6:59:06 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: wsjreader

Obama on Fox news now and declares he’s the nominee.
Somehow he forgot to thank Rev. Wright.


8 posted on 06/03/2008 7:18:26 PM PDT by topfile
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To: teawithmisswilliams

That is how they are going to play this thing.A lot of simple minded people are going to go along with it too.


9 posted on 06/03/2008 7:19:09 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: gakrak
The guy is my worst nightmare and I really don’t give a hoot what they label me. Amen

Lord help us if this Elmer Gantry dude is elected the the general election.

10 posted on 06/03/2008 7:40:52 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: ApplegateRanch
I've been wondering about that for awhile...who are the RINOs who thought John McCain was the best candidate?

I'd love to punch each one right in the mouth.

11 posted on 06/03/2008 7:44:06 PM PDT by gogeo (Democrats want to support the troops by accusing them of war crimes.)
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To: wsjreader

20 years.

240 months.

1040 weeks.

That’s how long he sat his leftist-commie a$$ in that church before he decided to call it quits.


12 posted on 06/03/2008 7:45:42 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: littlehouse36
What a salient quote. And what a great American.

Excellent post!
13 posted on 06/03/2008 7:58:41 PM PDT by jobim
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To: wsjreader

Oh, I’d say Trinity isn’t out of the news just yet. The reason he severed ties now, after 20 years, has nothing at all to do with his Deviant Duo of spiritual mentors. But an attempt to blunt the impact of scandals yet to be reported.


14 posted on 06/03/2008 8:31:10 PM PDT by COgamer
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To: wsjreader

Just wait until the Rebublican War Machine gets hold of him, especially with aid from the Clintons!
My guess is you’ll see something “devasting” on him released, before the week is out.


15 posted on 06/03/2008 8:32:22 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: wsjreader
John McCain = Right stuff

Barack Hussein Obama = Wright stuff

16 posted on 06/04/2008 4:22:40 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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