Just taking the temperature: Who gives a flying F$ck about Obama's Pastor?

[izzybeans]

I'll be back later to see who really gives a shit.

My friends band is in town. Got to make sure he has enough gas money to get back.

Shhhh....he was at the Obama rally in Indiana after the Penn. primary. Silly guy. :)

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Smile for once. A good day is going to come.

Oh and maybe rec this thread of you are in the I don't give a fuck camp.

[Nitrogenica]

1. Not an issue. They keep telling me to be outraged, but I'm not. I like the guy.

[rusty_parts2001]

3. Funny, everyone was in his court until it affected Obama's

prospects. I still think 85% of what he said needed to be said. I like him too.

[Emillereid]

2. I don't. It's one of the lamest issues I've ever seen in a political campaign -

it's too bad Obama had to sever ties with him though. But he had no choice after Wright's grandstanding yesterday.

[DesertFlower]

4. it never bothered me,

but it did bother a lot of people. i can tell you that my jewish friends were especially upset with wright's connection to farrakhan. they knew about wright before it hit the media.

[BobRossi]

5. With friends like Wright......

Who needs repukers!

[cliffordu]

6. Nah, didn't bother me.

[d00mzday]

21. I agree

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. i kinda liked him. thats about all i feel about it. it could be because of jon stewart though

[kwenu]

8. The media, Hillary and the Republicans.

I personally don't care about Obama's former pastor.

[LakeSamish706]

9. Barack had to throw him under in order to save himself... Just a fact of Politics...n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

10. I'm just tired of the way

that politicians end up wearing their religion on their sleeve, whether they want to or not.

[Tribetime]

11. I'm giving a fly that I won't have to see that clip of him

beying played over and over(hoping anyway) Maybe I can stomach the cable news in the near future.

[Olney Blue]

12. It makes me sad to see that relationship severed and destroyed.

But I think Obama had no choice.

I actually agreed with alot of what Wright said and I don't have anything against him personally.

[whatchamacallit]

13. Complete bullshit. It's a totally manufactured issue

It would be like holding me accountable for idiotic statements made by Clinton supporters, simply because I'm a member of DU.

[truedelphi]

28. And I think the Powers that Be are enjoying how they can totally manufacture

Whatever nonsense they want to perpetuate.

They got Deanout of the running by the electronic machinery and the "Dean Scream"

If Obama is guilty of What Wright Says because of attending that church, then every Catholic in office is guilty of encouraging pedophilia!! Agfter all, which Catholics (other than Sinead O'COnoor) ever spoke out about the child abuse running rampant in the vestry over the past decades.

[whatchamacallit]

36. Amen! ;-)

[EFerrari]

14. I do but not because he's his pastor but because I like how he thinks.

So I'm going to rec your effen' thread anyway. Take it and like it.

lol

[izzybeans]

35. Thankx!

[Innocent Smith]

15. You get a good sense next week

It doesn't matter that much whether we care much about it our not. What matters is how much it affects him at the polls.

[jpertello]

16. Do I care?

NOT! As I'm pumping gas and watching the numbers wizz by $34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39...$40, 41...etc. Do I really care what some dumb egotistical pastor in Chicago rants about? Does this affect my life? NOT!

[FlyingSquirrel]

17. I don't know, but apparently a lot of people are wasting their GDP posts on it...

'cause I'm seeing a bunch of unlocked threads in General Discussion about Wright and other GDP topics too.

The Reaction To Reverend Wright Reveals How Totally Lame We Have Become

So how come MSM has given Rev Wright so much airplay

Tweety keeps talking about Wright & his comment "God Dam America" does anyone

I LOVE Rev. Wright! He is absolutely, totally correct..

I viewed Jeremiah Wright's address to the National Press Club this morning

Senators Clinton and McCain favor Gas Tax Moratorium

FUCK GD-P

Okay that last one wasn't really a GDP topic but follow it and enjoy.

[CakeGrrl]

18. Doesn't bother me a bit. I like them both. -nt

[Forkboy]

19. I care, but not in relation to how it plays for or against Obama.

I just find Wright an interesting man.

[kevinbgoode]

20. ABC News does.

After all, they have to milk their tabloid story as much as possible.

[Tinksrival]

22. Between you, me, and the DU

We could see what Wright was about. The rest of America? Not so much. Barack had no choice, and Wright didn't make it any easier Monday.

[swishyfeet]

23. I think the country is getting sick of this whole issue

Obama got through round 1 of Wright, he'll get through this one just fine and people will finally start calling out the MSM on all this idiocy.

[rurallib]

24. Has nothing todo with Iraq, healthcare, the deficit, NCLB, NOLA

jobs,
Need I go on?
All the RW has is diversions

[BlueIdaho]

25. Not me. nt.

[dchill]

26. Who gives a flying F$ck???

Everyone in the media, and Republicans (including Hillary Clinton.)

[niyad]

27. I never had a problem with wright's rhetoric, what I have, and continue to have a problem with

is obama asking people to believe that, in his 20-plus years of being a member of the congregation of rev. wright, he never heard the sort of inflammatory rhetoric--that wright had said some things with which he disagreed, but nothing along the line of what appeared on those tapes. sorry, that is not even remotely credible. pastors in the area spoke openly about the fact that wright's views were well-known.

sorry, this is just one more thing obama has said that makes me say, "hmmmm"

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

30. LOL

So you don't have a problem, you have a problem with Obama for not having a problem.

Don't you realize how stupid that sounds?

[EnviroBat]

29. I'M FUCKING OUTRAGED!

That this stupid non-issue is still being paraded around by lunatics...

[zulchzulu]

31. I've seen it as a non-issue since last year n/t

[apocalypsehow]

32. Never did peel much paint in my neighborhood. But then, I'm a progressive, not a phony liberal

like so many of the HRC boosters - a good many of them here will not only be voting for McCain in November but were always going to be voting for McCain no matter what, if you catch my drift.

[truedelphi]

33. With all the real issues - the manufactured issue is the one that

The Media insists on making us consider.

A nation of sheeple!!

[rinsd]

34. I could care less about a candidate's friends, family, pastor etc.

Its what they say and do that counts.

[nichomachus]

37. Politics of personal destruction -- the Clinton's learned it at Rove's feet

[CaptJasHook]

38. I do, but not for the standard reasons

I believe that the "soul" of the party and the country is more important than its present actions. Black churches have been supporting the Democratic Party for decades with the hope and the promise of change. Instead the African American community has been continually marginalized. We need to continually working on Civil Rights progress, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all.

Rev. Wright's opinions need to listened to and dealt with. He is not a lonely voice in the wilderness. Many members of the Democratic Party have the same views and questions.

[izzybeans]

40. I agree 100%. Couldn't of said it better.

[izzybeans]

39. Sorry for not getting back last night. But to the folks who responded. Thanks.

Interesting to say the least.