Obama spokesman: New photo shows the "hypocrisy" we've all come to expect from the Clinton campaign.

[Stephanie]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Clinton_aide_Obama_pushing_Wright_photo_pathetic.html

Obama spokesman Bill Burton responds:

After their top surrogates pushed this story line and Senator Clinton's campaign outlined this as a central strategy in her plan to overturn the will of Democratic voters, I can see why they wouldn't want a photo out there that shows the kind of hypocrisy we've all come to expect from their campaign.

[beachmom]

1. Amen, Obama camp! nt

[Dinger]

2. Politico? (Again)

Keith better watch his mouth, or he could end up like Shuster.

[Deep13]

3. Thanks for the value judgment, Karl!

[rug]

4. Like accusing, without facts, Clinton of releasing the Somali photo yet releasing this photo.

Obama has the lead in hypocrisy to date.

[rodeodance]

15. and it was the BO camp. who gave these photos to NYTimes!

[BeyondGeography]

5. Fine, smack 'em around a little bit

Bullies always hate to be hit with a good and fair shot.

[NashVegas]

6. Pretty Pathetic

The only hypocrisy I see is that what's coming from Obama supporters who took Drudge's word that it was the Clinton campaign who spread that goofy pic of Obama in Somalia around, and screamed to high heaven.

[Hepburn]

7. Excellent!

Hillary and her loser campaign wants to play??? Game, set, match...they got beaten again!

:applause:

[L0oniX]

8. Game on.

[slinkerwink]

9. The Clintons threw Reverend Wright under the bus!

[SeaLyons]

10. Little did Bill know

what the good Pastor really thought of him.

[buff2]

11. It proves you can't trust anybody

Bill didn't have a clue as to how vile that little old man is.It's sickening.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

12. This Is The Saddest Thing I've Seen The Obama Camp Do Yet. It's Pathetic Actually.

Using that picture as showing hypocrisy or trying to connect him to the clintons is really as weak as you can get. I say that sincerely too. I'm actually a bit shocked they'd take this route, because it really is quite transparent. I'm also disappointed in any of my fellow DU'ers that thinks that photo means anything whatsoever, because it shows a lack of critical thinking ability on their part.

Seriously: The whole thing they're trying to portray by pushing this photo is really quite pathetic and embarrassing. It makes them and others look really quite silly.

[Orsino]

25. Depends on how they play it.

I don't object to a reminder that Wright was once prominent and safe enough to have had his picture taken once with (Bill) Clinton. But the Hillary campaign has kept pretty quiet on the subject, and deserves no neener-neeners.

I don't see it as a smear attempt (as was the MSM's pimping of Wright)--just an attempt to diffuse the manufactured rage.

[bluedog]

31. it also shows that Wright goes into the WH

as a man of the cloth..loving and forgiving.......in this this House.the heart of our nation......

But in his church he asks God to Damn America?.........this man is absolutely a hypocrite!

[rodeodance]

13. BO gives the Photos to NYTimes and then calls Clinton hypocritical. What a joke BO is

[Seeker30]

22. Joke is putting it lightly

He is a fraud.

[cali]

28. Politics ain't beanbag

The Clintons said they were going to throw the kitchen sink at Obama. They should expect incoming in return. If hilly ccan't take the heat, she should get out of the kitchen.

[guruoo]

14. More intellectual dishonesty from BO camp

Obama needs to lay down the law to his renegade campaign staffers.

[Hangingon]

16. This one backfired with me.

Tremendous difference between a pic at a prayer breakfast and twenty years in the pews and a long-term mentor relationship.

[niceypoo]

17. I am curious when Obama will start talking about policy...

All Obama ever talks about is Hillary

[waiting for hope]

34. Or when is he going to start attacking

McCain on a daily basis?

[quantass]

18. Why is Bill's Index Finger so Long in pic? Does that mean a Big Pee-Pee?

[rodeodance]

19. NY Times says Obama campaign provided them with Clinton/Wright photo

Here is the hypocracy!!


Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject NY Times says Obama campaign provided them with Clinton/Wright photo
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5183818#5183818
5183818, NY Times says Obama campaign provided them with Clinton/Wright photo
Posted by ruggerson on Thu Mar-20-08 09:34 PM

"In providing the photograph to The New York Times, the Obama campaign appeared to be trying to divert some attention to the Clintons after a week in which Mr. Obama’s relationship with Mr. Wright has left him facing one of the biggest challenges of his campaign."

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/photograph-of-bill-clinton-and-rev-wright-surfaces /

"Responding to the Times's report that Obama campaign had "provided" them a photo of Bill Clinton and Jeremiah Wright (which had surfaced a bit earlier here and elsewhere) , Clinton spokesman Jay Carson emails:

"The Obama campaign put this photo out? How pathetic," he said. "Less than 48 hours after calling for a high-minded conversation on race, the Obama campaign is peddling photos of an occasion when President Clinton shook hands with Rev. Wright. To be clear, President Clinton took tens of thousands of photos during his 8 years as president."


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Clinton_aide_Obama_pushing_Wright_photo_pathetic.html

[Seeker30]

20. Thats what Hillary gets for giving Obama a free pass on the Wright issue

Hillary's only response to Wrightgate was 'no comment' and this is how Obama responds. Everyday Obama reveals more and more his true colors.

[Lannigan]

30. Amen. - NT

[dkf]

21. When Bill Clinton needed help with Monicagate he went to

Rev. Wright. Now he uses Wright against Obama.

If you Hillary people don't recognize what is wrong with that, you simply don't have a clue.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. It just doesn't click with them. Pretty dense bunch. n/t

[polmaven]

32. From that picture, and from the NYT article,

you get that When Bill Clinton needed help with Monicagate he went to Rev. Wright!!!

Wow....This may actually win the award for the most twisted logic of the day...nay, week!




:crazy: :crazy: :silly: :crazy: :crazy:

[dkf]

35. Those preachers and religious leaders helped save Bill Clinton's ass.

With tearing eyes and a trembling voice, President Clinton succeeded yesterday in convincing a room full of religious leaders that he was genuinely sorry about his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky and embarrassed about the way he handled it. One after another, ministers, rabbis and imams left the White House prayer breakfast saying they were moved by the sight of the most powerful man in the world humbling himself so thoroughly before them.

Dozens of those who spoke afterward said they were confident that the speech marked a turning point on Clinton's road to personal salvation. Even many who had once been reluctant to forgive the president set aside any concerns they had about being used to provide moral cover and conveyed their approval.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/ministers091298.htm

[Arkansas Granny]

24. As I mentioned in another thread, I don't know who prepares the guest lists

and invitations to these events, but there were about 100 preachers there that day. These are annual events and prominent clergymen attend.

I'm not sure what this picture is supposed to prove besides the fact that the two men had met. I don't think Pastor Wright preached a sermon at this event and if he had I'm sure it would have sounded much different than one he would have given in fromt of his own congregation. Had Clinton denied ever meeting Pastor Wright? I just don't see that this picture in itself shows any hypocrisy on the part of the Clinton campaign.

:shrug:

[blogslut]

26. This wasn't just any prayer breakfast

This was the prayer breakfast where Bill apologized to invited religious leaders after the Lewinsky affair.

EDIT ADD: link http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/ministers091298.htm

[susankh4]

27. The Obama "spokesman" needs to grow up

A president shakes millons of hands in the course of 8 years. And invites 100's of 1000's of people to White House functions.

Get real Obama camp. And give us a break.

[Ichingcarpenter]

38. This was a major speech where he apologized for his affair

before preachers.

[zabet]

29. Obama is projecting..

Obama is the hyocrite. Claiming to be
above such typical political manuvers and
then using the tactics he says he is above.

One handshake in the White House is not even
comparable to Obama sitting in a pew for 20
years and condoning Wright.

[waiting for hope]

33. Bullshit -

This is no different than pictures of Obama and Rove or anyone else -



Could it be that they happened to be at the same event and just talked?

[IsItJustMe]

36. K & R

[Scurrilous]

37. K & R

:thumbsup:

[ampad]

39. K&R