Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke...

[babylonsister]

She's gone way too far with this one. :grr:

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03...

Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke, Says Obama "Used Race When It Suited Him"
By Greg Sargent - March 25, 2008, 2:37PM


The Wright Stuff is coming fast and furious from Hillary and her supporters.

First Hillary criticized Obama today for not sufficiently distancing himself from the controversial pastor.

I've now learned that a member of Hillary's finance committee and a longtime ally of the Clintons has made some very explicit statements about Barack Obama's ties to his controversial minister, Jeremiah Wright, saying that it's "legitimate" to raise questions about those ties, comparing Wright to David Duke, and claiming that Obama has "used race where it suited him."

The finance committee member, Niall O'Dowd, made the comments on Saturday in an unnoticed interview with RTE Radio in Ireland. The Wright issue has been raised by Hillary surrogates Lanny Davis and Joe Wilson, making O'Dowd the third Hillaryite (or fourth, if you include Hillary herself) to hit Obama over Wright.

The interview is worth a listen, because it's another example of supporters of the candidates (see Power, Samantha) getting themselves in potential trouble by saying things abroad in settings where more candor is possible, and indeed expected, than here in America...

The comments from O'Dowd -- who's long been close to both Clintons, having served as a key adviser on Irish affairs to Bill Clinton and hosting a big fundraiser for Hillary last year -- go farther on Wright than Hillary and her supporters have thus far.

O'Dowd said that the Wright comments raised "a legitimate question" and observed that "it's interesting that Barack Obama sat in the pews while all this was going on, and never once in any of his books or anything else" did he denounce Wright, adding: "He worshipped this man."

O'Dowd also compared Wright to Duke and inadvertently said that the Hillary campaign is actively making an issue of the Wright controversy, something the campaign (Hillary's comments today notwithstanding) has been careful to avoid doing. O'Dowd said:

"I think the issue that the Clinton campaign has seized on is that Barack Obama, you know, never once raised his voice to his pastor and said, `I think your language is quite extreme here, and I think you language is probably wrong.' Because let's turn this around. If this was David Duke and he was preaching on behalf of, and Hillary Clinton was in the pew, there would be outrage about this. And there can't be this double standard. Barack Obama has used race where it suited him, but when it doesn't suit him he backs away from it."

[Kittycat]

1. That's the same thing Buchanon did a week back.

So they're taking their talking points from that piece of sh*t now?

[panader0]

2. WAs not Clinton's pastor arrested for child abuse?

I read that here yesterday.

[leftofcool]

3. uh no,

it was a town in Clinton, New York and an Assembly of God preacher. You Obama people really need to learn research skills.

[babylonsister]

4. Yes, their former pastor. He's now in jail...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x347731

[panader0]

5. Thank you.

I was unable to find out through google or wikipedia if it was Clinton's pastor or a pastor from Clinton, NY.