Ecce homo that Obama can no more disown than he can the black community.
If I were the black community, I’d be pretty f*ckin’ pissed. Jeremiah Wright, crucificato, claims that He is the black church in America. Nobody comes to the church except through Him.
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He looks like he works on Fantasy Island. I liked Ricardo Montalban more better.
Hopefully, candace will be along to give us some context.
What an asshat. He dodges the question by strawmanning Tuskegee and then repeats the balf faced lie that we sold Saddam his chemical weapons (oddly quoting a Dave Chappelle.)
This guy is an egomaniacal clown.
In a little hill-top village
they gambled for my clothes
I bargained for salvation
and they gimme a lethal dose
I offered up my innocence
and got repaid with scorn
Come in, she said, I’ll give ya
shelter from the storm
Man, this is an ugly, ugly man.
And this is where Da Lawd went for weekly spiritual enlightnement.
Doesn’t fill me with confidence, but I’m a typical, left-brained, differentially-clapping, blue-eyed devil.
YOU JUST CAN’T STAND THAT HE’S WILLING TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER AS A BLACK MAN WHO ISN’T UNPATRIOTIC BUT YOU’LL TAR HIM THAT WAY FORGIVE ME FOR SAYING TAR AND THAT’S HOW YOU KEEP THE BLACK MAN DOWN PLUS AIDS!
I’m a tool of the caucasiarchy.
He’s just a tool, period.
you sillies, he loves his country, just not the government part of it.
I think I’ve heard about enough from the good Reverend, BTW.
Not that I want him to just shut the hell up, but I don’t want to hear it anymore. Let him rant on, as is his inalienable right, in the dusty anonymity he so richly deserves.
Just keep him off my screens, please.
And the crackers. He could definitely do without all the crackers. Sooner there can be fewer crackers, the better.
madness foams his lips
he vomits insanity
the press hangs on evry word
that Obama can no more disown than he can the black community.
oh….yes…..he…..can!
just watch.
;)
The Iliad, Ajax, Wall of the Achaians, right?
It would be cool if Obama came out and said, “Wow. You know what, I was wrong. The guy’s a racist, self-aggrandizing jerk.”
He never will, of course.
Why would Obama disown the man who’s been like a father to him? The man who taught him to get in touch with his racist self?
Just be thankful I’m not writing McCain’s general election campaign ads, nish.
Just be thankful I’m not writing McCain’s general election campaign ads, nish.
hehe, oh, i totally am.
without u mccain doesnt have a snoballs chance in hell.
an old snoball at that.
Here is a great essay, recalling the way that the press and the liberal establishment threw feminism under the bus in order to defend Bill Clinton in the 1990’s, and wondering whether the same elements are prepared to throw progress against racism under the bus in order to normalize Wright for Obama’s sake.
i think he may have to JohnAsquared
wright said that Obama just gave him up to win the election
i want O to say, “old racist batshitcrazy preacherman, im not goin to your church no more, an i repudiate thee an all thy works.”
The truly sad part of this is that there are “Progressives” all over the country nodding their pointy little heads in agreement with this idiot, they just don’t have the guts to admit it openly.
Rev. Wright keeps saying people don’t like him because he points out stuff that’s wrong with America. That’s BS. It’s because he acts like absolutely nothing is RIGHT in America.
But he’s not, and you’re still going to vote for him, and his socialized agenda.
But he’s not, and you’re still going to vote for him, and his socialized agenda.
What is his agenda? What part of it are you labeling as “socialized.”
oh yes i will still vote for him.
like Dr. Cochran.
i had a big fight with greg cochran once at GNXP.
when my dad was first diagnosed…..
i said i wished Ramesh Ponneru would get Alzheimers….
i dont wish for that anymore.
:(
not for anyone.
not even u robcrawford.
Universal health care
Universal Pre-K (all your children belong to us)
To start
Thanks, nishi. I, for one, wish you had been born with a functioning mind.
I, for two, wish you a sense of self-reflection.
And then, a sense of irony.
Dan:
Did you just call Obama an icky homo?
And if she ever acquires those, then I hope she forgives herself.
Really, if Obama did step up after all this time and explicitly, without weasel words, disown Rev. Wrong…?
Only the true and confirmed Oborgs would buy it.
If he were going to do it, it should have been, like, a year ago — before anybody even heard of this nutcase preacher. Failing that, as soon as the man’s name showed up in campaign coverage.
Failing that, as soon as it became obvious the story wasn’t going to die away on its own.
Failing that, Obama is a footnote. Maybe Hillary’s running mate, but still a footnote.
…by which I mean, nobody’s mind is going to be changed. It’s too late.
I seriously wish nishi would leave for a couple years, grow up a tad, and then come visit us again. she’s just currently discovered that she can piss off daddy… and well, everything that goes with that. some time actually paying taxes and away from the Profs and she’ll come around to her senses. ah, what is youth without the patented rose-colored goggles?
I tried to watch the clip, but DAMMMIT I just can’t afford a monitor this month.
Wright is drawing a line in the sand. And good for f*cking him. If I am to be labeled racist for declining to vote for a campus communist/bigot/empty suit rainmaker, that label will go on my chest along with the ones awarded previously for being born not-of-African ancestry, being a doctrinaire conservative, and being a Christian who believes that the message of Christ comes into play so far before politics that the two ethos really never meet (except that Christianity makes my civilization quotient pass average by a far chunk…).
He’s saying “Hi, you out there on the other side of the cameras, the microphones, and printing presses. I’m a racist sack of shit, a bigot, an exploiter of ignorance and a cultivator of the hate born in mobs. I’ve got the media, the black victim class, and the white plantation owner liberal elite all lining up to suck my upright organ. And THIS is how things are going to be from here on out, if you want a Black Vote…”
I’d be embarrassed if I were an American with black skin. Being of largely American descent, yet spiced with northern and southeastern Europes BEST genes… and wholly, totally embracing the idea that “American” has zero to do with colors and everything to do with philosophy and behaviour, I’m frankly disgusted that such a creature as Wright can get past “go”, much less pull in ratings that will probably get him at least one pitch for a reality show.
Interesting times.
I think even putting Wright to the side, if I’m honest I have to admit that deep down I don’t really want Baracky to win. I just don’t think he’s suitable for the presidency. Not yet anyway.
I don’t have any “yet” qualifiers to put forward.
He’s a few years younger than me. His entire public life has been a tightrope walk aimed at ZERO exposure to criticism. If you don’t vote on any contentious issues AND you define your message as “change” without definition, but above question… what, that is supposed to translate as “you be transcendent! And shit! And anybody disses you, they RACISTS!!!!!!”?
Eleventy, etc, etc, etc… What a bunch of morons we live among.
I watched just that too many seconds of Wright’s reverse minstrel show. Damn him, and damn the taste I can’t get out of my mouth after having been exposed to his shtick.
Happy Happy smiles! Have a fine one.
This is what I would like someone to ask him: If AIDS was intended to eliminate the Black population, why was it planted among homosexuals?
to throw you off the trail, B Moe. duh.
– Setting aside all the “details” of the good Revs rant, save one, his claims concerning AIDS is fruitcakeville. Other than having much higher levels of meloninen in their skin, and that rhythm thing, there is absolutely no anatomical/mental/physiological difference between Blacks and Whites. This is unavoidably true of course, since the entire human race spring from old Black Lucy.
– The first phase of this, the final death knell of the special interest forced inter-racial wars that have been dying over the past five decades, will not end well for the race baiters and class warfare agents.
– But once they cart all the political bodies off the stage, maybe in the long run this is really whats needed to end the Sharpton era, and get on with things. The entire genre of elitist Marxo-Socialism, and idenity politics, is on its 16th minute.
Pssst… don’t tell nishi. She’ll go berserk.
#34 McGehee – this is just like a question I asked late last week on why politicians never deal with these obvious potential problems from the past before they begin campaigning, like Kerry with the senate testimony on winter Soldier; like G.W. Bush on theat drunk driving ticket in Maine.
These are so obvious, and they are easy to deal with early before the campaign is going and you don’t have the time or energy to address them and current problems, yet in the arrogance no one ever does deal with these. at the time I was wondering if some of those McCain commercials wherein he admits failings (I have a temper, I had discipline problems when I was a kid, etc.) were an attempt to get ahead of these. If true it would be a break from the normal mold for a candidate (which is to ignore these problems – or even not know that these are problems until they become problems).
I think that its because they figure nobody’s going to invest in them in the first place if they air their skeletons, Mikey.
Foolish, foolish thinking then, Dan. That’s why the apologies and repairs ought to begin before campaigning, with the note ‘you know what you are getting with me – what do you think you’re going to get with him? maybe another Eagleton?’
And the Kerry testimony was in the senate’s records, so it was known. An apology a few years before would have done him so much good – it may have gotten him over the top.
Obama has managed to cage himself into an elementary Catch-22.
Think about his options. If he continues to play the “I’ve answered that” and “let’s move on” he faces the very real possibility that his mentor will continue to pimp himself to the mainstream media, feeding both his idealogical mindset and his ginormous ego. In addition, Obama’s got some idealogical idiots for supporters. They aren’t listening to the direction their candidate wants to go on this subject so they continue to play the “out of context” and “Wright’s essentially right” card which only serves to continue feeding the media pig.
If Obama elects to step out and firmly, clearly condemn and disown the pastor, he invites another set of problems to take up residence. First he looks like a conniving weasal. Someone’s going to get around to asking why he’s doing his disowning now when the essential message is unchanged from 2 months ago. “Oh, senator, are you saying that Rev. Wright’s comments are eeven more despicable now or merely more visable?”
Secondly, he runs the risk of alienating himself with the BLT base who are, no doubt, worshipping every word from Rev. Wright’s hateful mouth and beaming at the attention being generated. I suspect that such a crystal separation would cost the good senator some authenticity within the BLT church community, not to mention the potential cries of HYPOCRITE! that the far left is so fond of raising.
He’s screwed, in some manner, whatever path he chooses. There is no hopey, changey, UNITY way to wiggle out of this one with his political reputation and image completely intact.
Image is all he really has, isn’t it, BJ?
Well, JD, to be fair, it isn’t all he has. But it certainly is the foundation of his campaign.
If you choose to politically live by the PR, you may also be slain by the PR. Such is life in politics.
@ 45 & 46: One of Bill Clinton’s strengths as a campaigner was that he had people around him who knew how to “inoculate” the negatives — get it out there and into the public consciousness on their own schedule, so that by the time the opposition was in a position to try to use it against him, it was already “old news.”
Frustrating as hell to be up against, but surprisingly effective considering what a slimeball Bill Clinton is.
It is always effective if you know something is going to come out (and if you are running for president that goes up to near 100%) to confess it right away. You get a reputation for candor that you don’t deserve, you surprise your enemies, and you are able to implement a plan rather than scramble around trying to cobble a response together.
You look better, you use less resources, and you remove ammunition from your opponent’s magazine.
I agree with all of those things, Mikey, but it means a paradigm shift. Everyone figures that they’re going to use the nutroots as their first booster stage, and that it will fall away. But it never detaches.
It is a paradigm shift, Dan. But as you put it, ‘it never detaches’. So doing the same thing and expecting different results is a definition of…?
I’m just interested in the idea of being proactive with problems rather than waiting to be reactive, especially when you or your staff can identify the problems. It is rare, but the available evidence indicates that it is the most successful strategy. That’s funny, and I wonder if that advice is given and what the vocalized reasons are for not pursuing it?
That would be very good information about the character of the candidate.
The problem is that the aspects of the candidate that mosst appeal to the nutroots are exactly the ones that the populace at large will reject. The earlier the campaign season goes, the more it’s going to be dominated at the beginning by nutroots: people with no lives who look to politics to take care of their lack of lives.