Has anyone asked Hillary Clinton if she believes that Obama

[rateyes]

agrees with Rev. Wright? I sure would like to hear her answer to that question.

McCain says it's a non-issue. I wonder if Clinton will.

[leftofcool]

1. She said "no comment."

[rateyes]

3. Did she really?

That's pathetic, if true.

[jmg257]

5. That's what I heard her response was too - Friday night.

[rateyes]

20. Pitiful.

When Obama was asked about some of Hillary's supporters comments, he said that he didn't believe that Hillary felt that way.

[Arkansas Granny]

30. After the reaction that many here had to her remarks when she was questioned

about Obama's religious beliefs on the 60 Minutes interview, I doubt that any answer she gave would satisfy you. No comment is probably the best thing for her to say right now.

[LisaL]

9. Oh right.

WTF should she comment on it?
Let Obama comment on what he believes or doesn't.
No one else can get into his head.

[4themind]

2. "no...as far as I know"-nt

[rateyes]

4. Someone needs to ask it. nt

[rateyes]

6. And, I did catch the humor. nt

[azmesa207]

7. McCain

says it a no issue that because he has a idiot preacher backing him to .

[rateyes]

11. Let me help you here, and tell me if this is what you meant to say:

"McCain says it is not an issue because he has an idiot preacher backing him, too."

Got to tell you, I know some of Hillary's acquaintances/advisors in the preaching profession. We can play tit for tat.

[LisaL]

8. Since Obama went to church for 20 years.

He gotta agree with at least something reverend says, don't you think?

[rateyes]

13. I imagine he does, just as Hillary agrees with

a lot of what her spiritual advisors say. She is Southern Baptist, you know.

[Rageneau]

15. She's a Methodist. Bill is the Baptist.

[rateyes]

18. She attended church with Bill in Little Rock.

[azmesa207]

10. Why would she even

answer that question no matter how she answers it you idiots on this site will accuse her of being racist

[LisaL]

12. DUbamas are sure to jump on anything she says.

It's Obama's problem. Let him answer what he believes and what he doesn't believe.

[rateyes]

17. You don't want her answering that question because you know

how she will answer. Now, how about Ms. Clinton releasing her tax returns?

[LisaL]

23. And Obama should release his tax returns.

[rateyes]

25. He has. nt

[rateyes]

14. I never accused Hillary of being a racist.

Now, read your sentence construction as opposed to mine, and then tell me who is the idiot. Idiot.

[justinsb]

16. I don't think either McCain OR Clinton

Want to start answering questions about what their religious leaders might have said...

No one is going to touch it.

[rateyes]

19. Well, McCain answered it. nt

[zabet]

21. If you really want to know..

Clinton campaign: Yes on Rezko, no on Wright
by James Oliphant

The memo has apparently gone around the Hillary Clinton camp this morning: Lay off the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.

On a conference call Saturday to talk about the state of the race, Clinton campaign officials just wouldn’t go there.

“That’s really for Senator Obama to address,” said chief strategist Mark Penn.

It’s interesting, because certainly, the Clinton folks have shown very little reluctance to knock Obama around like a pinata every time they come across as what they perceive to be a vulnerable spot.

Take, for instance, Obama’s mea culpa on his dealings with Antoin “Tony” Rezko. The Clinton campaign has been calling on Obama for months to come clean about the full extent of his relationship with the indicted developer. Friday, they got their wish to some degree, but that only racheted up the Clinton attacks.

Penn said Obama’s disclosures were part of a “troubling pattern,” in which Obama’s words don’t match the facts. He said Obama’s advisers on foreign policy and trade haven’t always been on the same page as the candidate. And with Rezko, Penn said, Obama waited too long to tell the full story. The theme, as the Clinton folks have been pushing for weeks, is that Obama’s words don’t add up to very much.

“We tend to learn more in dribs and drabs rather than the kind of transparent candidate and the transparent campaign he says he has been running,” Penn said.

Transparency, of course, is a two-way street. The campaign was asked again whether it would release Clinton’s tax returns, something Obama has been demanding for months. Penn said the returns would be released “around April 15.” When pressed, he pledged they would be made public before the Pennsylvania primary. The Obama camp has been saying returns will shed light on the various sources of income for both Hillary — and especially Bill — Clinton.

Clinton spokesman Phil Singer also wondered why Obama had said he wasn’t aware of Rezko’s legal problems when Friday Obama said that he had indeed read stories about Rezko’s troubles and why Obama said Rezko had raised $100,000 less for his campaign than the developer actually raised.

“Senator Obama needs to answer some basic questions, including why does this story keep changing?” Singer said. He complained that Obama “claims the high ground while attacking Senator Clinton’s character.”

As for staying away from Rev. Wright, it may be that the campaign didn’t want to invite comparisons to Geraldine Ferraro, whose race-based remarks were made seemingly a thousand news cycles ago. Or maybe that talking about race in any context has become such a landmine that they just thought it wouldn’t be prudent.

It certainly wasn’t because there was nothing to say.

http://politicalnighttrain.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/hillary-memo-lay-off-jeremiah-wright/
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She is leaving it alone and instructing
her camp to do like wise. Smart move,
last time she was harassed by the press
and attempted to defend Obama, she was
crucified for a parsed remark.

[emilyg]

22. Good. Nothing for her to say.

[zabet]

24. Smart move, I agree.

[rateyes]

27. Perhaps she shouldn't parse...

just say outright that she knows Obama doesn't believe it. He did it for her.

[zabet]

28. She did not parse it.

It was parsed here. When
she was badgered in an interview
about whether Obama was a
Muslim or not. She was flustered
at being harangued and did the best
she could off the cuff and was
crucified by the Obama supporters
here. So why should she risk it
again when mountains are made out
of molehills every minute of this
primary season?

[GoldieAZ49]

26. No politician is going to touch this, when they have already

been called a racist or accused of racial slurs


She should not jump in this at all, Obama made her apologize for Ferraro, time for Obama to man up and handle his own problems

[goclark]

29. He did ~ now she should Woman Up with her tax returns

and their Library donors and her " Fellowship" ties etc' etc.etc,

[GoldieAZ49]

32. I agree and when she does it will only be 2007

they won't show all the money Bill made and who paid him in 2006

[jackson_dem]

31. Is she a mind reader?

[SeaLyons]

33. Hahaha

McCain can't wait for the 527's. He doesn't have to say anything.

[goldcanyonaz]

34. She's got the same comment as he did when she was being hit with 'Clinton's are racists' BS in S.C.

No comment.