Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke

[Tatiana]

Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke, Says Obama "Used Race Where 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 http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/hillary_wright_would_not_have.php">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 http://www.rte.ie/radio1/marianfinucane/1084847.html">interview with RTE Radio in Ireland. The Wright issue has been raised by Hillary surrogates http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lanny-davis/two-questions-for-senator_b_92386.html">Lanny Davis and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-wilson/obamas-shallow-credentia_b_92586.html">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...

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

Follow the link and view the video of another Hillary surrogate smearing this man:



With Democrats like these....

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. it's an exact comparison too

[george_maniakes]

2. you think wright's morals and dukes morals are the same?

then i feel sad for you.

[Shae]

16. She probably has no idea

she just wants to slam Obama.

[RamboLiberal]

3. Keep it up Hillary and you're going to lose the African American

vote forever!

[countingbluecars]

5. How's that?

Do you think that they have similar life experiences? How can you even start to compare them? Absurd.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. simple.....they are both racists and bogots

[george_maniakes]

10. How exactly is wright a racist and a bigot? Thats quite the charge.

and you have what exactly to back it up?

[DJ13]

4. The Clinton campaign sounds extremely desperate today

:rofl:

[nomorenomore08]

6. Hillary Clinton - stuck on stupid.

Obama doesn't have jack shit to apologize for IMO.

[blogslut]

7. Lovely

Gerri Ferraro was on her finance committee. It's like she never left.

[Independent-Voter]

8. Honestly, I'm half-expecting her to burn a cross at her next high-school rally at this point.

[Tatiana]

11. Huckabee.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14948.html">Yes, Huckabee:

And one other thing I think we’ve gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say “That’s a terrible statement!”…I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who’s gonna say something like this, but I’m just tellin’ you — we’ve gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told “you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus…” And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.

MIKA: I agree with that. I really do.

So what you have are "journalists" at Fox News like Chris Wallace saying this smearing is wrong. John McCain saying this is out of line. And now Huckabee taking the sensationalized comments in context says folks are stepping over the line.

Not to mention the countless Dems who were proud or at the very least, satisfied, with the way Obama addressed this issue in his speech on race.

But we've got the Clinton campaign trying to revive a smear against a man who has service this nation honorably as a marine and as a community leader who feed the hungry and found housing for the homeless on Chicago's southside.

Despicable. These Clinton characters are simply despicable.

[george_maniakes]

14. well clinton feels she can label wright as unworthy... she will have to live with the consequences..

of that. If she can label the man unworthy over those few statements, why cant someone label her unworthy over her misspoken words?

[sniffa]

12. I thought Jellybean resigned from her Finance Comittee?

:shrug:

[Tatiana]

15. Have no fear. There was someone waiting in the wings to take her place. n/t

[BlueIdaho]

13. C- in the "lets take the focus off of my big fat lies" department

HRC will do anything and say anything to get back in the Whitehouse. She will encourage her minions to scorch the earth if she can't have her way. Shameful.