Is it possible that Wright is the best they've got?

[Changenow]

When the Wright story drops from the top spot a new "revelation" is "discovered." The problem is the isn't really anything new, just more of the same.

Andrea Greenspan Mitchell could barely control the emotion in her voice earlier today, it almost cracked, when she announced Obama is ahead again in the polls. She then perked right up as she tempered positive Obama coverage with the latest Wright shit.

It hit me that there isn't much they can use to slam Obama. Hillary's embarrassing misstatement was a 12 hour story, but the Wright story never gets too old to cover. If they had more, by now they would use it. The whole right wing noise machine is now on the Clinton bandwagon, but they aren't having much luck.

[democrattotheend]

1. You could be right

I feel like if there were a lot of other dirt about Obama out there, wouldn't the Clinton campaign have found it by now?

[Changenow]

4. Or Roger Stone,

Drudge, or Rush.

If it were there, they would have found it by now. Instead, all we get are reruns. They think Wright is the gift that keeps on giving, but most people realize that Wright and Obama are separate people.

[Changenow]

12. Heh,

MSNBC just called Wright a gift that keeps on giving for the Hillary campaign. I should write this stuff.

They'll release something every week until November.

[scheming daemons]

2. It's a game..... when Obama dropped in the polls, they slammed Hillary... when Obama surged, they ..

...are back to slamming him.


MSNBC *LIKES* the ratings they are getting. They are trying to keep this close. Whoever is ahead in the polls, they highlight a story attacking them to bring the race back into equilibrium. Once the balance tips too far the other way, they attack the other candidate.


If Hillary surges in the polls again for some reason.... they'll go back to bashing her.


They want this to remain a race... so they can milk it for ratings for months.


It's what they do.

[40ozDonkey]

36. Correct.

The media love no one above their bank accounts and themselves.

[Bigleaf]

47. Both of you are 100 % correct.

[superkia]

48. I think their agenda is bigger than just worrying about ratings, their...

wealthy boss' want the elections to stay close so that the elites candidate can steal it and the American public will just think" aww we were so close, it was our fault. Same thing I believe happened with bush, keep it close so when you rig enough electronic votes or disenfranchise just enough people, you look like you just won by the skin of your teeth and the public gives up and goes back to sleep.

If Obama were to have ran away with it and became the nominee, there isn't too much the media could do during the time before the GE to keep all of the younger voters and newer voters from staying with Obama. The way the Clintons are running their campaign, its either them or McCain and thats how their elite boss' wants it.

They are already painting the picture that McCain will win because polls show Democrats not wanting to vote for the other candidate, I call bullshit. Americans are sick of bush and where are country has went in a fast pace and I don't see anyway McCain could win unless Clinton is given the nod from the super delegates while being behind.

[Changenow]

49. That may be the plan

but people don't trust any institution anymore.

[Guava Jelly]

3. Yep

It is all they have..
So actually they've got nothing.

[Coexist]

5. it would seem so, because they are riding that corpse as long as they can

they would try something else if they could.

[Quixote1818]

6. It seems like it. nt

[knixphan]

7. they need 'Rocky'

keeping it artificially close, I agree.

[DJ13]

8. This is why the MSM hates any candidate that doesnt have a long record in office

Without 10-20 years of votes under their belts the MSM has trouble trying to persuade voters that candidate X is a bad person because he voted for these bills in office.

It removes their power to slant the news to get people to vote for their corporate employers bought and paid for candidate.

[grasswire]

9. NO

It may be all the talking heads have right now, but you can bet your bippy that the RNC has a whole playbook ready for Obama.

[Changenow]

16. Except that the RNC

has already shared its game-plan with the Clintons.

[grasswire]

30. don't be stupid

the RNC has wanted to run against Hillary for years already.

[Changenow]

37. Which is why they

must share their ammunition now.

[Strelnikov_]

10. I agree

When the opposition risks alienation of a critical part of their party's base by running a form of the southern strategy, I would say the kitchen sink is about dry.

The Reich has tipped it's hand in that their strategy is to paint Obama as a, gasp, liberal.

[Justitia]

11. It's ALL they've got. "Scary Black Preacher Man is Under Your Bed!" -eom

[Zueda]

13. I think I heard of further revelations into Kindergate...

[Changenow]

17. Oh, that will be bad

then there is that phase in preschool where Obama would only use the black crayons.

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Yeah, that was bad.

And it didn't even help when they interviewed his old school psychologist, who recalls having asked the young Barack, "How come you're coloring everything in black?"

and little Barry answered, "'Cause it's the only crayon I got."

[Changenow]

34. But, but..bu...

the little blond girl sitting next to him offered to share her flesh colored crayon, but little Barry said he didn't need it because his was a flesh colored crayon. It turns out Barry was also A BLACK CHILD!!!!

[Jackpine Radical]

39. (Johnny Carson voice:) I did not know that.

You mean he was already black way back then? Like this is some kinda lifelong preoccupation of his?

[Changenow]

46. Just like his Presidential ambitions.

Coincidence? I think not.

[Jackpine Radical]

50. Apparently he was not only planning to be a President,

but a black President as well. Wow, diabolical!

[Changenow]

51. He planned it while in the womb

while he had no distraction. It's true, his sinister ambition to thwart Hillary was prenatal.

[Vinca]

14. I was really freaked by the bad publicity before, but now it's so

apparent it's a hit job, nothing more and nothing less, that I really don't care. MSNBC, in particular, should be ashamed of themselves, however. We're now over 4,000 dead in an illegal war and the country is on the brink of depression and they're worrying about snippets out of some preacher's life. As Sally Quinn said, if they wanted to depict Bill Clinton in small snippets and the snippets were Flowers, Jones and Lewinsky, it would not be a fair representation.

[ej510]

24. Black people we were the main defenders of the Clintons.

We loved Bill Clinton.

[Vinca]

28. Sad, isn't it? Now they're trying to scare the crap out of

white people with a black preacher. All the Clintons have to do is say "enough." After all, the Rev. Wright was called to the White House to counsel Bill after the Lewinsky episode. He wasn't scary then.

[JimGinPA]

15. We're One Britney Meltdown From Having No M$M Election Coverage

:rofl:

[walldude]

40. Now that would be hilarious...

GDP would be out of business... or changed to GDB and we'd have debates on the merits of Britney's preacher and her tax returns... All the while the evil Lindsay Lohan will be confusing Shia and Sunni and flashing her cootch to drum up finances... :rofl:

[tridim]

18. And BTW, criticizing Israeli policy now equals "Anti-Jew"

My Dad tried to use that on me once. Once.

[Changenow]

20. That's been true for a few years

The problem is people who aren't antisemitic have strong opinions about US/Israeli policy. The MSM can tell them one thing, but they know that uncritical support of Israel leads to dead Americans. Like race, it is a complicated issue, however simplistic it is portrayed.

[goletian]

19. its better than attacking his message of hope and unity...

that was the best they had before the wright bull shit was thrown into the mix. lol, theyre pretty pathetic arent they?

[Changenow]

23. Only a nut would believe

Americans can work to solve the country's problems.

[Arkansas Granny]

21. No. Don't get complacent. The RW hasn't gotten started yet. If they can't find something they wil

make it up. They are also very good at whisper campaigns.

[Changenow]

25. That is true

Fiction is next.

[myrna minx]

33. All too true. n/t

[Blue Diadem]

22. Yes, I'm beginning to think it is.

My son and I were discussing it this morning. They can't come up with anything against him personally, so now they're attempting and re-attempting to use Pastor Wright's words as if they are Obama's.

There are people out there(insanity-faux) who want to know the exact dates Obama was in church so they can compare the sermons from those dates for anything perceived as outrageous or hateful.

[scheming daemons]

27. Isn't it VERY interesting that.....

Two days after Hillary Clinton says that Greenspan should be utilized to help fix the subprime mess, that Greenspan's wife - Andrea Mitchell - has begun a full out assault on Obama?


Quid pro quo?

[dansolo]

52. Begun a full assault?

She has been against him from the very beginning.

[crankychatter]

29. diggin for scrippy scraps like ravenous feral animals

right here in DU, the machiavellian, incessant spin is most obvious

it's always somethin' and it's always going to be somethin' (roseanne rosannadanna)

my belief is that more people in America realize what a crock it all is, than any of us could imagine

how else can we explain the consistent resurgence of the obama campaign?

if it bothers you that the Clinton camp is so persistent (if negative), imagine how THEY feel with
Obama popping back up all the time, no matter how hard they try to hit him, like Muhammed Ali, dancing in the ring, way too pretty

restores my faith in a way...

interesting article co-authored by tom hayden, danny glover and some others for you at Common Dreams today, "progressives for obama."

putting out the tentstakes... the general election could be amazing

[myrna minx]

31. When people are outraged on behalf of Caesar Augustus, you know you're stretching.

[anonymous171]

32. He put the issue to rest with the speech and the removal of Wright from the advisory comitee.

The media will try, but they will fail.

[Dr Fate]

35. No-They can make things up that are even worse. Ask Kerry and the Swiftboats...

...or ask the Clinton's about half the crap that was made up about them in the 90's...

All the "Liberal media" has to do is make things up- the trick is how you respond to it- and I think Obama has shown that he will generally respond correctly.

[Cant trust em]

38. but something MIGHT come up

that's the best argument the other side has right now. Supposedly all of Clinton's negative press is over and done with, but it is possible that Obama has another skeleton out there. Just trying to freak us out over nothing.

[anonymous171]

42. HRC supporters are naive if they think the GOP won't bring every anti-clinton smear back.

[Cant trust em]

45. I've posted that in the past to HRC supporters

I usually don't get a response back.

It would be great if the GOP thought that Monica Lewinsky was old news. Whitewater, Vince Foster, Gennifer Flowers will all make their way back. It will be like a greatest hits package that gets rolled out.

[KaptBunnyPants]

41. It's all Clinton has.

If her team had anything better, they would have dropped it after the Wright story started losing steam.

[ClassWarrior]

43. It doesn't matter what "they've got." They'll make it up if they don't have it.

What matters is who will best be able to counter it. And I think Clinton has too much baggage, whereas Obama has proved himself with Wright alone to be able to handle the nonsense.

NGU.

[oviedodem]

44. Clearly it is all they got. The Rezko trial has yielded NOTHING (like Obama said)

This is all they have a "close" surrogate of sorts that is linked to a church no less. The problem with that is, MANY people don't see church and politics one in the same EXCEPT republicans. Unfortunately, the repubs have church issues of their own so this does not go very far on its own so the MSM plays the SAME CLIPS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

The muslim thing has been destroyed BECAUSE of Wright (that was smart), he is not linked the farrakhans of the world so they try to manufacture that. Everything is manufactured at this point b/c nothing is sticking.