SO NOW he says he would have resigned - if he had heard Wright say the things he said in his crazy-ass, racist, un-American sermons that ran over and over and over again on the news....and he chose to say this to the lovely ladies of the View? Not in a Speech to his googly-eyed supporters, not on Oprah, not on another more influential news program...on the View. Nice choice.
SO WHY the hell was he saying, over the last two weeks that - of course he had heard similar incendiary sermons from Wright (excusing him by saying its just his style, or its out of context from the entirety of the sermon) -- of course he heard racist rhetoric during the 20-plus years he has attended that church. But, it didn't bother him enough to leave at ANY point over the last 20-years, but suddenly it does now...
But, now - because it will completely derail him in a general election - he's covering his ass like any typical politician. Props to Obama for playing the game - but it just proves my point that he's just like any other politician -- which goes back to the fundamental reason I don't like him --- all character-related things being equal (which in my mind they are) he's just too green to do the job.
And now we have Wright and the Trinity Church mess -- it is why (if he gets the nomination) the Dems will lose....well, that - coupled with the 28 percent of Hillary lovers that'll either stay home or vote for McCain.
Oh yeah - and there's more....
From CNN -
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/28/obama.pastor/index.html
Bulletins from Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ in 2007 include comments -- reprinted from other sources -- that maintain South Africa and Israel worked on "an ethnic bomb that kills blacks and Arabs." They also quote a historian who said that "what the Zionist Jews did to the Palestinians is worse than what the Nazis did to the Jews."
The articles appeared in a church bulletin section called the "Pastor's Page," and include one that originally ran in The Los Angeles Times. That article was written by a senior official with Hamas, which the U.S. government considers a terrorist organization.
All I have to say to that is...WOW...there is NO way that's not going to be on every TV across the country come election time. Obama's connection to his church is seriously going to screw the Dems.
He's trying to recover - but it just shows what an inexperienced candidate he is...he's too late to spin it, he's been too "honest" in not distancing himself, and he appears far too dismissive of it...this is the shit that middle America will not forgive. Period.
His great speech on race is going to be quickly forgotten...and we're going to be left with all the fodder Obama has left scattered on the primary battlefield.
Unless Howard Dean seats the damn Florida and Michigan delegations - counts the popular vote from those states and makes the only decision to give us a fighting chance.
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