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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:32 PM
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How is that the Rev.Wright thing came to public light AFTER Edwards & Biden had left the race?
It's highly unlikely that Obama would have made it as far as he has had the brouhaha over Rev.Wright ignited back in November or December. Not until the Democratic nominee race was down to two candidates - Obama and Hillary - did the controversy erupt. Currently, Obama is tenuously holding onto his lead over Clinton. But if the Wright furor had been hanging over his head from the beginning, either a) Edwards and/or Biden, two very electable candidates, would have remained in the race to compete with Obama and Hillary; or b) Obama, and not Edwards and Biden, would have been left behind in the dust.

Why wasn't more known about Rev.Wright's sermons until only a couple of months ago?
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zabet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:33 PM
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1. Just wait until the press grabs Meeks and runs with that one.
:rofl:
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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:39 PM
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2. i knew about them.
i found out about wright and his praise for farrakhan back in january. my jewish friends told me and gave me links.

i don't know if the media didn't know or they chose to wait.

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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 03:24 PM
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16. Same here I knew about Wright and his
praise for Farrakhan long before it become pubic. The media obviously sat on it until after only Clinton and Obama were left as serious candidates. Why? I don't know, was it to help Hillary or maybe to get it out early to possibly help Obama get it behind him by the GE? After Edwards dropped out and was seriously looking at Obama I discovered it and now I am in limbo can't support NAFTA Hillary or Obama. At this time I just will stay out and not vote at all.
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bigbrother05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:43 PM
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3. The Clinton strategy was multiple candidates through Super Tues
Her 40% support (primarily based on name recognition) is a killer in a 3/4/5 person race. Edwards dropping when he did (was so disappointed that happened) exposed the narrow band of Clinton support and has brought us to today.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:46 PM
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5. If Edwards had not dropped out
Hillary would be ahead right now with Barack and John trading 2nd and 3rd place. The only hope would have been a brokered convention where one of them endorsed the other (probably Barack John). We'd be in this war till August except with 3 groups screaming at each other and tag teaming the other group at opportune moments.
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:46 PM
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4. Ask ABC.
Ask all the media who sat on the story until they "needed" it.
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:47 PM
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6. don't know. interesting question. (I'm a Bidenite) nt
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:48 PM
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7. Could it be that they had to wait till folks were ready for the race baiting?
Maybe it would have had an opposite effect had they played it too early.

Remember when Biden said that Obama was "articulate and clean"....how the media responded that we should all be highly offended?

However, once they realized that Obama was actually a real "threat", then the Wright race card double standard became neccessary.
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DemVet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:56 PM
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13. This is/was not a race-baiting issue. It's about character and judgement.
But then, you knew that, right?
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democrattotheend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 01:51 PM
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30. Sorry, but I disagree
Obama is the only candidate being held responsible for his choice of church or held guilty by association. The Clintons have a ton of sleazy associations that have not been discussed. Just because they were revealed 10 years ago does not mean they are not relevant now. Hillary is a candidate now, and if we are going to play the guilt by association game it should apply to all the candidates.

McCain had poor judgment in seeking Hagee's endorsement, and maintains that he is still glad to have his endorsement despite Hagee's offensive rhetoric. Why does this not receive as much coverage as Reverend Wright? I view it as a racial disparity, and I am white.
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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 08:18 PM
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25. You distort the facts with that little twist on reality
.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:49 PM
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8. Your premise is false. No matter who the front runner is
something would have been manufactured, as the Wright issue has been MANUFACTURED, to attack him/her.
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 03:28 PM
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17. Wright is real not manufactured! n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 03:36 PM
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19. Of course it is. Hillary has a much more radical connection
in the Fellowship and where has that been, 24/7?
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 03:37 PM
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20. ? n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 03:53 PM
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21. Hillary belongs to a Dominionist prayer group that teaches
Edited on Sun May-04-08 03:54 PM by sfexpat2000
Christian elites should rule the world. :crazy:

And, unlike Obama, that connection is current.

Obama went to a popular South Side church to lay down roots in the community. So have 8,000 other people. Hillary belongs to a secretive, exclusive, radical prayer group for Christian elites.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html

Tell me which one of these two situations should be the story?
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 05:47 PM
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23. Mother Jones! enough said another shill for Obama
I don't think all of those Senators think God should damn the USA or the government invented aids to kill black people.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 12:02 AM
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27. LOL! Truth, another shill for Obama!
:rofl:
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Avalon6 Donating Member (206 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:50 PM
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9. I heard about Wright in November, so the press already knew about it
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:51 PM
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10. Obama has been hiding Wright from public view since his announcement in Springfield last year
That was a huge mistake as we now know.

Don
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Bensthename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:54 PM
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11. If it wasnt Wright it would be his voting record, experience, etc,,
They always find something on the leader of the pack, vroom - vroom..

And those will be brought up after people start screaming even louder to drop the Wright bs.

But dont worry McCain has tons more on him then we have time to discuss now.
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knixphan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:55 PM
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12. the mistake is trying to play defense against the MSM
Our offense is getting new voters signed up - getting the youth, not worrying about why our enemies choose their strategies. Let's play OUR game.
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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 02:58 PM
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14. I read references to them on DU
Ask Fox "news" I guess.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 03:02 PM
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15. Pure and Simple. The Media in their fervor to protect Obama
chose not to cover it. A lot of us knew it was around.
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 03:30 PM
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18. The Clintons had hinted they would drop a bomb against Obama around the time of the Philly debate.
Well, now we know what it was and who had foretold of it.
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Wash. state Desk Jet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 04:00 PM
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22. It's odd in a way really.
You know how it works yet you don't. First they court the candidate than they smear the candidate. Indeed the dirt was already there. You know how it works and yet you question that.So very very odd.

It's rather simple really, Obama is just a city guy that doesn't know how to jump and run! If he had ever spent some time in the woods with real folk ,he would know how to jump those stumps before he stumbles and falls! The baddest dude on the Chicago city block just doesn't;t know a god damn thing about about jumping stumps! Is that wright or right~ ?
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 01:36 PM
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28. Your problem is that you smugly distinguish the "woods" from the "hoods"
Edited on Mon May-05-08 01:37 PM by David Zephyr
Poverty and struggling is not unique to just "real folk" "in the woods" -- which was just your clumsy attempt at a euphemism for "white people". You might pull back just a bit on your most myopic view of where "real folk" live. Many "real folk" live outside "the woods". When 90% of Americans live in cities, you might want to broaden your concept of "real folk".

In any event, you will be stuck with choosing between him and John McCain in the Fall. And from your post, I have strong hunch that John's whiteness will make him more of a "real folk" to you.
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 05:55 PM
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24. My new policy is to ignore any Hillary supporter who starts a
Wright thread. You're #4 today. As I told the others, get a life.
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jackson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 08:43 PM
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26. The same reason Obama mysteriously went over a year campaigning without being vetted by the MSM...


Look at that date. The MSM played us...
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thevoiceofreason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 01:42 PM
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29. Dumbest. Post. Ever.
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democrattotheend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 01:52 PM
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31. Wouldn't change a thing for me
Edited on Mon May-05-08 01:52 PM by democrattotheend
I'm behind him now as much as I ever was. I view Wright as a manufactured controversy because there is not a lot of real dirt on Obama but the networks want to appear balanced.
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futureliveshere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 01:53 PM
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32. Simple.. MSM only trained their guns on him when he became the front-runner..
and threatened the Clintons aka the establishment.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 01:55 PM
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33. It's Safe To Say The Press Sat On Their Asses
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