Mr. Wright has betrayed Obama

[ecstatic]

I'm crawling out from under my rock just to say:


Dear Mr. Wright,

Everything you are saying is true, but did you really need to say it at THIS TIME?

You have hurt Obama's campaign, and you have decided that you are the spokesman for all black churches. Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to attend your church were I a resident of Chicago. But now you have truly crossed the line with all your talk in the midst of such a crucial campaign. You are now aiding and abetting the Clinton/McCain campaigns! Thanks for nothing, you jackass!

GO AWAY!!!

[Skittles]

1. mmmmm

I believe with the swift-boating act done on Mr. Wright, he had to respond.

[goclark]

5. Thank you Skittles ~ he would have continued to be swift boated

without the ability to respond.

When would be the "right time?"

[ecstatic]

11. After Indiana and NC vote perhaps???!!!

Oh well. All that's happening is what I suspected would happen all along. My mind is clear now and I'm watching all of this unfold with semi-amusement.

[Skittles]

20. I can honestly say I do not know what the repercussions will be

but I have seen that swiftboating, reprehensible as it is, WORKS - so the targets MUST fight back

[Skittles]

16. it's just that I know swiftboating REALLY DOES WORK

John Kerry made a HUGE mistake by not hitting back at those lying propaganda artists. People in the public eye CANNOT let the rightwing media define them - PERIOD. THEY MUST HIT BACK.

[ecstatic]

22. Hit back? Wright's supporters know the deal, they are not stupid

The swiftboating of Wright was only working on people who would have never attended Wright's church in the first place. But thanks for your concern.

[Skittles]

23. how do you know who it was working on? n/t

[BlooInBloo]

2. He didn't do a damn thing. Just a black man speaking is enough to send white folks...

... fleeing for their lives and complaining like whiny ass tittie babies.

Note to everybody pretending to be an Obama supporter: Black people will say things. Get fucking used to it. Possibly one day you'll realize there isn't anything wrong with it, or even exceptional.

[tekisui]

6. You got it.

He is a free man, no one controls him. He should use his new found National Platform to stir it up.

[Adelante]

8. Do you think Barack's white supporters are somehow

less committed than you are? Get over yourself.

[ecstatic]

19. Not buying it. Even Sharpton has stayed silent

Because he understands what you have just stated. Wright knows better.

[LakeSamish706]

25. I'm with you on that! n/t

[anigbrowl]

29. But I feel so violated

He put his black ideas all over my nice clean white mind, like ink on paper! Or paint on canvas! Now I can't make the new ideas go away, and they're forever imprinted on my consciousness! How can I return to my previous state of blank emptiness? Now I know how paintings and documents feel after they are hung up on the wall of a museum to be stared at, a mere historical relic of my former self! Oh, woe is me!

I'm so upset that I'm going to paint the road outside my house white. Maybe that will make Reverend Wright see what a cruel, cruel man he is. I was so happy and carefree before he burst into my consciousness. Now I see Barack Obama as half black when I used to see him as half-white, sort of like a latte. Boo hoo hoo! Sob! Weep!

Someone pour me a glass of milk, and make it a stiff one!

[BlooInBloo]

31. hahaha!

[JeffR]

37. Damn right!

I'm so sick of this bullshit. As a (regrettably) white person, I think maybe it's time white people just shut their fucking mouths for a while. The country would be better for the silence of a lot of us.

[BlooInBloo]

38. There's nothing wrong with being white - thank god. Just when it's combined with....

... uncaring, lying, etc. that there can be problems.

[JeffR]

39. Fair enough.

I'm just uncomfortable with how often that combination appears in real life, and I'm dismayed at how often it seems to appear here on a nominally progressive discussion forum.

[BlooInBloo]

40. Oh yah - totally. And it's especially funny when white folks pretend that it's the "white"...

... that's being criticized *an sich*. Which is, of course, just an excuse to pretend to be offended, and at the same time ignore what the real problem it.

[JeffR]

45. Yep.

Fortunately, though white, I'm sincerely offended by almost everything circa 2008, so I think that lets me off the hook.;-)

[ourbluenation]

42. I'm white and I aint fleeing. FU and the horse you rode in on.

"fleeing for their lives and complaining like whiny ass tittie babies"

yeah, you can kiss my big ol irish ass.

sweet jesus, this place is fucking ridiculous sometimes.

[Quixote1818]

3. I agree, Wright was just about to disappear off the News and then here he IS!

:banghead:

[tekisui]

4. Wright is his own man.

I think it speaks to Obama's confidence and character that he is not "shutting him up". People will get tired of Wright. He isn't running for anything or from anything.

Go, Obama!

[goclark]

33. Right you are ~ OBAMA has spoken on this many times

no mtter what he says about it, there are those that will never believe him.

So,for him to tell Rev. Wright to stay quiet is not going to fly.

[onefreespiritedchick]

7. I agree he has

I am plenty ticked off.

[panader0]

9. I disagree

I think the Rev Wright has taken all of the negatives about him away. There's a long time left in this primary, and now, by him being public, and intelligent, he has ended the "Wright" issue.

[LakeSamish706]

26. I agree with you as well... Any time is a good time to defend yourself from this...

MSM bullshit and let people know that you are what you are, not what the MSM says you are.

Edited to say:

And the John McCains and Hillary Clintons can go F*** themselves for not standing solidly behind both Rev. Wright and Barack Obama on this.

[FrenchieCat]

10. How much longer can the Corporate media follow Wright around?

before it dawns on the not so bright electorate that Wright isn't running for anything?

Personally, I'm already bored, and I don't have a problem with Rev. Wright.

The media however, now, they are the betrayers of this nation. They are the unpatriotic scourge of this earth.

[rodeodance]

51. they do not have to follow him. Wright enjoys the limelight and $$ to much to stay quiet.

[muntrv]

12. Yep. Just like John Hagee has betrayed McBush.

[rucky]

13. this is so sad.

not Wright. I loved his speech.

It's today's reactions coming from both camps.

[EFerrari]

14. You couldn't be more wrong. n/t

[Life Long Dem]

15. The polls are still good

Monday, April 28, 2008

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows John McCain and Barack Obama once again tied, with each attracting 46% of the vote. Four percent (4%) say they would vote for a third party option and 4% are undecided. In a match-up with Hillary Clinton, it’s McCain 47%, Clinton 44%.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/general_election_match_up_history

[thunder rising]

17. Another fare weather friend of Obama? Get over it.

[TwilightGardener]

18. Eh, it was inevitable that Wright would start talking--that's what he does

for a living. He's not going to be mute forever, and he's not a puppet of the Obama campaign. Obama can't control him. In the end, he's just a sideshow, and people will figure out that he and Obama are two separate people, and not especially close or affiliated.

[pinkpops]

21. Funny how so many people have strong opinions about something

they know so little about. This man is controversial only because the talking heads keep calling him controversial. I was in a noisy break room today at work where Wright was on TV speaking to the press club live and I was the only one listening. The room was very noisy with everyone talking and laughing about various things happening in their lives. But I will bet you that every one of those people has an opinion about Wright which they have been fed on the news. It is enough to make me want to move to France - I kid you not.

[ProSense]

24. The kind of idiocy that allows this kind of media BS frenzy to continue

Under a rock is a great place for insects, and I'm glad Wright decided not to hide under one. This is America: Every person has a right to speak his/her mind and defend against personal attacks. Hillary just attacked his character in the last debate. How was that helping Obama? Wright should have allowed the attacks on his character to continue? Who do you think is helped if Wright doesn't got away? Hillary?

Fortunately you don't get to decide when Wright speaks.

[Oleladylib]

27. the best part of your post..is saying everything he says is true!

Because it is!

[nsd]

28. "Jeremiah Wright fucked Obama today and fucked him good. "

An Andrew Sullivan reader got it about right:

"Jeremiah Wright fucked Obama today and fucked him good. Remember how good everything felt right after Obama's historical speech in Pennsylvania -- like we might inch toward an honest discussion on race? Wright seemed to do everything he could this morning to shut that down...."

linkl


Wright's Bill Moyers interview was fine. His NAACP speech yesterday was okay, though he sounded a bit like a kook to me (I'm a neuroscientist and his "left brain-right brain" stuff was bullshit). But the Press Club Q & A was atrocious. I desperately hope Barack can find a clean way to cut this guy loose.

[ProSense]

30. That's idiotic! n/t

[Yossariant]

32. Hell, it's Obama's betrayal as much as Wright's.

[RememberWellstone]

34. Yes, he did.

Obama is in deep shit right now.

[Seen the light]

35. K&R

[Beregond2]

36. I could understand your anger

if there was the slightest sign that Wright is hurting Obama, but there isn't. So what's the problem? If there is anything we should have learned over the past eight years, it is that cowering in fear plays right into the Repigs hands.

[americanstranger]

43. Got that right.

Sometimes I think Democrats have become a bunch of whipped dogs, and they act like it if there's even a remote chance that some Repub is going to say mean things about them.

Fuck that. That is not life, that's fuckin' paralysis.

Man up, Democrats. Tell the GOP to piss off and get on with your life.

- as

[Swamp Rat]

41. M$M spin.

[hans]

44. Take a deep breath, count to ten, crawl back under rock. N/T

[quakerboy]

46. Wright is a PASTOR

not a politician. Unlike the other candidates in this race, Obama did not pick his church based on how "appropriate" it was to his political career. Wright doesn't owe you, me, or anyone else anything. Get over yourself.

[EFerrari]

47. Jeremiah Wright has stayed true to his values

in the face of a concerted attack

which is more than can be said for you.

[ecstatic]

48. Again, I think everything Wright is saying is true,

but his timing is off. I regret calling Wright a jackass. I was speaking out of anger earlier today.

Everyone knows what the MSM will do with this. Wright knows it too, yet he still chose to come forward now and it will hurt Obama's campaign. I hope it doesn't, but the media is relentless.

[ecstatic]

49. I'd like to publicly apologize for calling Rev. Wright that name

This is not Wright's fault. This is not Obama's fault. This is a problem dealing with race relations and neither Obama nor Wright can walk on egg shells their entire life.

[barack the house]

50. I stand by Wright some things have overide others as they are just he is good man.

[HopeforChange]

52. Maybe this was to cast him is a better light

Considering the fact that NC had these hate videos of Wright by the Replicans running.

Nothing he has said in the past two days is as bad as the sound bites they were playing over and over again.

Soon the American People will so Oh yeah, Wright, he's old news.

By flooding the airwaves with him and his speaches it gets him out there in a more realistic way. Maybe not perfect but not as a man whose every other word is God Damn America etc...

The medis does a good job of burning people out on a matter.

Also the American people are not that dumb. They may get ticked off because it is an obvious hit job and they will come out to vote because of this.

The problem is I am afraid this is being done to give them the excuse they need to steal the election.

Steal it then say oh yeah he lost because of the Wright thing.

How can Wright not think about this if he is so intelligent and just maybe he did and it will blow over.

[ecstatic]

53. Confirmed. Obama apparently feels the same way nt