How Does It Make You Feel That Obama's Gallup Numbers Are CLIMBING After the Wright Controversy?

[DrFunkenstein]

Even the staunchest Obama supporters got a little nervous that the country could freak out about the Wright soundbites (which will be put into their full context if we keep leaning on the media for the full story).

And yet...Obama's numbers barely budged in most polls, and his numbers are actually CLIMBING in some of them. The Gallup poll has Obama at his highest level of the year after several weeks of increases - and this was when the stuff hit the fan!!

The amazing number of people who bothered to watch Obama's historic speech really made me feel good, but these poll numbers are making me feel even better!

After so much dread and disappointment over the last seven years, I have to admit that I have been afraid to hope. The American people (and the media) let me down by being so easily led into the invasion, and then went and re-elected Mayor McJackass as President.

I wasn't sure if people would wait around while Obama treated them like adults. I have to say that I am very psyched that they have!

This election will come down to turnout, and considering the fundraising and sheer enthusiasm behind Obama (compared to the stifled yawns surrounding McCain), I've got to admit that I'm fired up!

[joshcryer]

1. SniperGate > PastorGate

Pretty obvious.

[Evergreen Emerald]

2. It makes me feel like the media completed their task of continuing to attack Clinton

until she was back down in the polls. The propaganda machine, bent on destroying Clinton is doing its job.

[Guava Jelly]

8. Take that argument to these guys

They report and let you decide.

[earthlover]

22. Obama's speech was inspirational. Smart. Effective. And the media didn't ignore it.

Dang those media moguls for not ignoring a great speech. If only they had ignored it, Hillary might be doing better! Dang the media!

[Kahuna]

33. Maybe Hillary should give a speech about how she "misspoke.."

:popcorn:

[earthlover]

38. Maybe you know, Hillary you know you know should you know make you know a you know speech you know..

about anything without saying you know....

[Cha]

50. Yeah, a rebel rousing speech like Obama

gave about "A More Perfect Union" only this one would be "A More Perfect Liar" and focus on how easy it use to be to make up war stories when they was no friggin' YOUTUBE!

[tishaLA]

58. But she did give one. It's called the "So? Speech"

"So I misspoke. So I'm human"

It made my heart turn red white and blue.

[Mooney]

46. Pish posh.

Obama is a talented candidate. He dug himself out of the hole.

[WolverineDG]

54. If Hillary hasn't learned

that the best way to get yourself out of a hole is to put down the shovel, it's not Obama's fault, or the media's.

dg

[ORDagnabbit]

3. I think with the internets people are realizing Hillary is a habitual liar since at least 1974

and her actions do not match her words.

[TheDonkey]

4. Obama is ready to fight. Hillary is ready to lie.

Is what we can gather from the past 3 weeks.

[anonymous171]

5. Boy, are you right about McCain's yawn factor!

I was trying to watch one of his speeches but I just kept losing interest. He's less exciting than Hillary for God's sake!

[DrFunkenstein]

20. No, I Think The Clintons Are Always Interesting

Maybe not ethical, but interesting. My wife cannot watch Hillary on tv because she begins freaking out that she comes off as phony, but I've heard that she is warm in person. But the campaign she has run has been really, really trashy going back even before they suggested Obama was a drug dealer.

[walldude]

6. Don't worry, the "punishment" scandal will get him

One of these lame ass yahoo attacks has to stick. It works for the Republicans :rofl: :rofl:

[DearAbby]

14. Snarf

:spray::rofl:

[xchrom]

7. doesn't matter to me -- i'll never support obama -- and it really doesn't

make any difference. the world will go on.

[TheDonkey]

10. lol, stay classy

[DesEtoiles]

11. exactly - who cares who you support.

[JayFredMuggs]

29. such a closed minded insightful post

From one of the people here who never let their mind stay open to options other than Hillary.

[xchrom]

45. i'm not a hillary supporter.

but the only thing nuttier than obanations fantastical support of the Anointed One -- is it's Righteous Hysteria over hillary.

[Kahuna]

34. The world will go on. But it will be a lot worse. Didn't you learn anything from 2000?

nt

[xchrom]

47. tell it to donnie mcclurkin. nt

[Cha]

52. No you tell it him...we're not worried

about him..you are.

[cali]

60. McClurkin?

anyone willing to sacrifice the SC, the environment, the lives of Iraqi civilians and U.S.troops, the environment and more because of McClurkin is a supreme idiot asshole. I detest those on either side who won't vote for the dem nominee.

[xchrom]

61. oh yeah -- cause that makes me a one issue voter, right?

more smug superiority -- what a bunch of horseshit.

[cali]

67. no, it makes you someone who doesn't give a shit

about this country or the world. Waaaay worse than a one issue voter. Disgusting.

[xchrom]

68. well -- you should know disgusting -- your

slavering adherence to your own notions of superiority makes you an expert.

[cali]

71. really? find one post where I've ever said any such thing

Clue: I have not. I simply know that it's not all about me, this election. You don't grasp that.

[xchrom]

72. you're making a judgement about my motives

about what's important or not to me -- and calling me disgusting.

and i'm telling you you're an expert in disgusting -- wear it proudly.

[Cha]

51. That's right..and you should come up

for air once in a while.

[Tatiana]

9. I have it on good authority that Obama Girl is gonna sink his campaign.

Seriously... I feel relieved and a bit vindicated. Americans are not as dumb as some people want them to be.

[JayFredMuggs]

30. You're really serious?

O........I guess you're just joking!

[Tatiana]

36. Yes, on the first part.

;)

[Warren Stupidity]

12. Wait! There is still more shit to fling!

Something might eventually stick.

[JayFredMuggs]

31. Nothing sticks to Clinton like LIES

about Bosnia sniper fire

[elizm]

13. How does it make me feel?

See the little guy say, "GOBAMA"!:applause:

Obama WILL be our next President. I look forward to him debating John McCain. The WORLD will know then. :)

[NOLALady]

15. It tells me that we are growing.

It feels good. It gives one hope for the future.

[Flabbergasted]

16. Pastorgate never bothered me. I knew it would pass and probably leave him stronger afterward.

Obama has a certain resiliency. Scandal doesn't stick to him as strongly.

Also the fact is that the only people that would care are the Pubs and the Clinton folks.

I related to the sermons of Wright. I think a lot of democrats did.

[azmouse]

17. Sometimes I think we're too close to all the political noise.

We make bigger deals of things that the average America isn't paying any attention to or has moved on to worrying about something closer to home for them.

Everything will be all right in Nov IF all Dems will support the Dem nominee.

[Yael]

18. It restores my belief that people are paying attention and sick and tired of the

old politics and triangulation and LYING.

She is a lying liar who lies. Enough of that.

[DJ13]

19. The public is smarter than they get credit for

They saw Hillary attacking Obama so often before the Wright non-story broke that they took it to be just another attack from people who want Hillary to win and dismissed it........blaiming Hillary for it.

She would have done better for herself if she had actively tried to defend Obama in the Wright controversy instead of trying to bring it back to life a few days back.

[icnorth]

39. "She would have done better for herself..." if she had said

something like this:

"...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 going to be probably the only conservative in America who's going to say something like this, but I'm just telling you: We've got to 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."
- Mike Huckabee, offering his perspective on the preaching of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. (Source: MSNBC)

[David Zephyr]

21. It tells me that there are a lot of fair-minded Americans.

Obama!

[WillyT]

23. Word !!!

I just wish there were more here, LOL!!!

:hide::evilgrin::hide:

[John Q. Citizen]

24. I feel good! (I knew that I would) Like one of the beautiful people!

I've got a feeling,
deep down in my soul
I can't hide,
I can't hide.


I'mn glad his numbers are climbing. It's time he clearly breaks out here.

[JeffR]

25. Doesn't surprise me, since it wasn't until Obama's speech on race

that I actually decided he was my candidate of choice. That won me over, and I guess it won others over as well (former Kucinich, then Edwards supporter here).

[NC_Nurse]

26. Damn good. He weathered it well, his speech was excellent and I think it

showed his resilience under stress. :thumbsup:

[JayFredMuggs]

27. Oh Dear Oh Dear

It's beginning to look like 90% of Americans don't swallow the bullsh*t anymore!

Oh dear oh dear, the Republicans must be very scared about this new level of sh*t filters installed in their brains.....after hearing so much from Bush/Cheney and all the other Repugs for the last 7 years.....they are not buying it.

That's not good for patriotic fear-mongering Republigs who continue to post their fear mongering here on the DU.

[cloudythescribbler]

28. It's just plain UNFAIR -- well, back to the usual suspects in trashing Obama

[Upton]

32. To be honest, I'm greatly relieved

in the middle of the Wright controversy, when his poll numbers began to drop, I could almost see it slipping away. As it turned out, I had nothing to worry about.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

35. This scandal did nothing except scare the crap out of his supporters for a week.

Yes, the cable talking heads were orgasmic. The hardcore Hillary supporters were shocked - shocked! The hardcore Obama supporters were scared shitless. The vast majority of Americans were... completely unconcerned. And uninterested. I've read a lot of posts at DU and elsewhere coming from people switching alleigance from one candidate to another for any number of reasons - serious, petty, and completely nonsensical. Not once have I seen anyone switch their support because of Wright.

Why?

Because it's fucking stupid, for one thing. To hear the people pushing this story tell it, you'd think Wright was running for office on the Kill Whitey ticket instead of Obama on the Democratic ticket. You'd think that Obama was some kind of steely-eyed militant black separatist. But the simple truth is that most people who saw the story looked at it, shrugged, and moved on. It doesn't impact anyone's day-to-day life. It doesn't in any way reflect negatively on anything Obama himself has either said or done in his career, because Obama isn't out there pushing Wright's viewpoint. And quite frankly the people who would be swayed by these sorts of tactics aren't the sort of people who would ever have voted for Obama in the first place.

There is another reason, rarely spoken, why this scandal hasn't hurt Obama. Any white American who knows and spends time with African-Americans has probably met someone like Wright. Maybe not so fire-and-brimstone, but we know the type. And any white American who doesn't know a lot of African-Americans still knows the stereotype from TV. Wright's words are troublesome, but not scary. He is not Farrakahn. He is not Malcom X. Nobody really feels threatened by Wright. If anything, they consider him a fool, but not a dangerous fool.

Had Obama held up Wright throughout his campaign as some kind of paragon of virtue, things might be different, and rightly so. But he didn't. And when it came time, with the media chomping at the bit, for Obama to theatrically and dramatically kick him in the backside, issuing the requisite mea-culpa-and-mistakes-were-made-and-I-repudiate-and-denounce, he didn't.

And now, for all of the hysteria and teeth-gnashing and speechifying about race and navel gazing and ranting tirades from talking heads, where is this story? It's played out. It's past its prime. Sure, it will flame up from time to time, much like Bill Clinton's "bimbo eruptions" whenever a new dumbass Wright quote is unearthed. But really, after "God Damn America" how much could he have left to say that would really shock anybody?

It's over. Time to move on to the next non-issue.

[DerekJ]

63. ..

:thumbsup:

[Ysabel]

37. yep fired up... :)

[Life Long Dem]

40. Like Obama can easily handle McSame.

I think this is ending soon anyway. Why else is MSM working full time? Are they going to work full time like this for 3 months?

[Erin Elizabeth]

41. It never bothered me much

(hell, I've heard some pretty gross bigoted stuff in white churches--enough to make your skin crawl.)

And his speech was amazing. So yeah, I'm glad he's going up in the polls!

[my3boyz]

42. I bet the Republicans are about to

crap in their pants. I mean they have to see that when you attack Obama he turns the tables on you and his numbers go up! All of the media is scratching their heads about this. LOL They can't understand why the number they did on Obama did not destroy him.

[Mooney]

43. It makes me feel like...

...Pastorbating!

[Reterr]

44. I personally switched to Obama after the whole pastorgate thing

A lot of people are still in the process of making up their minds-I agree with your post.

[Cha]

53. Good! Thank you..we

need all our voices, Reterr.

[Reterr]

56. Thanks-delighted to be on board.eom

[OnionPatch]

48. It showed me that he's a great candidate.

Because he can make lemonade out of lemons. When they attack him on something, it just gives him a chance to make another fantastic speech and win even more people over. :bounce:

[samsingh]

49. encouraged

[cuadrangular]

55. That is misleading. His numbers sank right after the Wright news

It was the Speech and the Clinton's Bosnia lie that gave Obama a bump.
To say that the Wright scandal gave Obama a bump is preposterous. It hurt him until other events helped him.

[cooolandrew]

57. Makes me proud of the country they are good at sinking swwiftboats.

[TTUBatfan2008]

59. Reminds me of the Lewinsky deal...

Bill's poll numbers actually went up after the story broke. There's something about feeling sorry for politicians, unless of course they do something like Nixon.

[Perry Logan]

62. Relieved. It gives me hope that the Republican mojo is broken.

Maybe they won't be able to win by dividing us anymore.

[DerekJ]

65. They still have their best friend....Diebold

[Perry Logan]

66. Ruh oh. Let's hope activists all over the country have put a dent in the Diebold advantage.

[polichick]

64. Makes me think Americans aren't gonna be fooled this time...

...and that feels great!

[madrchsod]

69. fox is the only media that is still beating the dead horse

every one else has moved on to the next scandal.

[izzybeans]

70. It makes me think that white Americans like me are getting more sophisticated

when it comes to race relations. The Southern Strategy doesn't work like clockwork anymore.