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Rev. Jeremiah Wright has 'October surprise' for Obama

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Posted by: 04SCTLS

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=72191

Barack Obama may have quelled a self-described political "firestorm" by quitting Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial "black liberation" church, but the bombastic pastor is preparing to set off a bomb in the homestretch of the candidate's campaign.

Wright has an "October surprise" in store for Obama, reports New York magazine, with the launch of a publicity tour for his new book.
Highlighting the story in the UK's Spectator magazine, writer James Forsyth calls it a "huge problem for Obama," with the controversy over Wright's racial and anti-American rants and his friendship with Obama "returning to the news agenda just as undecided voters begin to make up their minds."

The Obama campaign announced May 31 the senator's resignation from his 20-year membership at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago after months of political damage from repeated media airings of video clips from Wright sermons and probing into the church's radical race-oriented views.

Wright, previously regarded by Obama as a spiritual mentor and adviser, retired this year as senior pastor of Chicago church, but the minister maintains influence with an emeritus title.
In March, after the video clips began to damage Obama's poll numbers, the senator gave a speech in Philadelphia in which he denounced the pastor's remarks but refused to "disown" him.
In a January 2006 sermon, Wright called America the "No. 1 killer in the world" and blamed the country for launching the AIDS virus to maintain affluence at the expense of the Third World. The pastor reportedly said in a sermon just after 9/11, "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color." In a 2003 sermon, Wright encouraged blacks to "damn America" in God's name and blamed the U.S. for provoking the 9/11 attacks by dropping nuclear weapons on Japan in World War II and supporting Israel since 1947.

In April, Wright made a series of media appearances, including a stop at the National Press Club in Washington in which he reaffirmed his assertion the U.S. brought the 9/11 attacks on itself, contending American soldiers in Iraq have died "over a lie" and calling news reporting of his sermons an attack on the black church.
During the press conference, Wright scolded media for the frequent broadcast of inflammatory remarks from his sermons, saying it is "not an attack on Jeremiah Wright, it is an attack on the black church."

The session with reporters touched on the issue of Obama distancing himself from Wright's speeches by claiming he was not in attendance to hear the anti-America and racially charged statements broadcast by media
A reporter asked whether Obama regularly attended church and paid attention during sermons.

"He goes to church about as much as you do," Wright replied. "What did your pastor preach in the last week? You don't know?"
Wright said he would not stop criticizing the U.S. government if Obama becomes president, because the complaints are over policy, not the people.
The pastor told the candidate, he said, if elected and inaugurated, "I'm coming after you."

During Wright's spring media blitz, Obama, meanwhile, gave an interview to "Fox News Sunday" in which he admitted his relationship with Wright is a political issue.
"I think that people were legitimately offended by some of the comments that he had made in the past," Obama told host Chris Wallace. "The fact that he is my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue. So I understand that."

Obama argued, however, "it is also true that to run a snippet of 30-second sound bites, selecting out of a 30-year career, simplified and caricatured him, and caricatured the church. And I think that was done in a fairly deliberate way."

Posted by: fossten

This is not going to be the Wright Obama thought he knew.

Posted by: 04SCTLS

With friends like these....

Posted by: shagdrum

That was back in the early part of this year. It is irrelevant now. Stop living in the past.

Posted by: fossten

Quote:

Originally Posted by shagdrum

That was back in the early part of this year. It is irrelevant now. Stop living in the past.

Hope and Change for the Future?

Posted by: 04SCTLS

shag,
you sound like a closet democrat.
It's going to be a close election and egomaniac Wright going on tour in october will be right in Obama's face.
The MSM loves colorful characters and Wright wants to stretch his 15 minutes.
If he really wanted Obama to win he'd lay low and do his tour after the election.

Posted by: fossten

Quote:

Originally Posted by 04SCTLS

shag, you sound like a closet democrat.

You know, normally people use smilies when they're being facetious or sarcastic.

Posted by: 04SCTLS

sorry, I'm not up on my smileys

here's more scuttlebutt for Obama

Will Clinton's name end up on ballot?
Independent advocacy group seeking roll-call vote raises advertising funds to take on party leadership.

Aug 14, 2008 04:30 AM
http://www.thestar.com/News/USElection/article/478127

Tim Harper
WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON–Storm clouds are forming over Barack Obama's big Denver convention parade later this month, with behind-the-scenes efforts to put Hillary Clinton's name on the ballot showing no signs of slowing.
The Denver Group, an independent advocacy group which says it wants the party's rules to be respected, has emerged as the most prominent of organizations pushing for a roll-call vote with the New York senator's name as a presidential nominee.
The group was co-founded in June by Marc Rubin, an advertising and entertainment writer , and Heidi Li Feldman, a professor of law and philosophy at Washington's Georgetown University and a Clinton fundraiser.
"The Democratic party does not have a nominee or even a presumptive nominee," Feldman claimed yesterday.
The Denver Group argues neither Obama nor Clinton won a majority of pledged delegates during the protracted primary battle and that the stated preferences of so-called superdelegates are meaningless without them casting ballots.
The designation of superdelegate – which includes party officials and elected members – was created as a device to choose a nominee if two candidates arrived at the national convention without enough pledged delegates to win the nomination.
The mood at the convention, which begins Aug. 25, could become tense as both Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton have been given coveted speaking slots.
Hillary Clinton will speak on the 88th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in this country.
Clinton fundraiser Feldman said she would abandon her efforts to get Clinton on the ballot only if the New York senator releases her delegates – something she has not done.
Clinton also has not called for such efforts to cease, instead telling supporters there may need to be a "catharsis" by giving her backers voice at the convention.
She has campaigned on behalf of Obama, but there is still well-documented frostiness between the two camps, and Bill Clinton did nothing to thaw relations by refusing to tell a television interviewer he thought Obama was prepared to be president.
A former aide, Howard Wolfson, further irritated the Obama campaign by telling ABC News this week Clinton would have won Iowa and the party nomination if candidate John Edwards' extramarital affair had been known before the January caucus.
The Denver Group's Rubin, once the head writer on The White Shadow television show, argues Clinton "got 18 million votes.
"There is a great deal of anger and animosity among them about what is going on."
The group has solicited funds – under law it cannot receive individual donations of more than $5,000 – and has accepted enough cash to take on the party leadership in newspaper ads in Chicago, Florida and Michigan, as well as Roll Call, a well-read Capitol Hill newspaper.
Yesterday it was seeking donations to buy ad time on CNN's Situation Room to counter negative comments made about their efforts by commentator Jack Cafferty.
There are other groups advocating for the same roll call vote.
HRC 300 is a website purporting to be the home of the PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) Alliance.
Other pro-Clinton delegates are working quietly to avoid the wrath of the party, they say.
Feldman said rank-and-file Democrats have been turned off by the party's demand that it vote for one candidate, and one candidate only.
An ad paid for by the Denver Group states that Democratic National Committee chairman "Howard Dean does not choose the nominee. (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi does not choose the nominee. The press does not choose the nominee.
"The delegates of the Democratic party choose the nominee.
"Senator Clinton's name must be placed in nomination and her supporters must be allowed to make speeches on behalf of her candidacy."
If 20 per cent of Democrats sit out the election, Republican John McCain will be elected, Feldman says, and she maintains that the Democratic National Committee is pursuing a strategy that "clearly alienates" at least 20 per cent of party supporters.
"When people believe the game is being rigged, they generally don't go to the game," Feldman said.
"You might love baseball and enjoy going to the games, but you wouldn't pay good money to watch a World Series if the outcome was already decided."
The party is desperately seeking unity as Obama seeks a post-convention bounce after a nationally televised acceptance speech he will deliver before an expected audience of 75,000 at Denver's Invesco Field.
Feldman says she wants a Democrat in the White House, but says the party is already divided.
"If the party legitimized this nomination, Obama could win," she says.
"But it won't happen if they do it by ramming him down the throats of the party members.
"Until we go through this formal nomination process, this party shows every sign of being a divided party," she said.

Posted by: fossten

See, all the analogies to a sporting event only cheapen the electoral process. It isn't about choosing the best candidate anymore; it's about whose side wins.

Posted by: shagdrum

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Originally Posted by fossten

See, all the analogies to a sporting event only cheapen the electoral process. It isn't about choosing the best candidate anymore; it's about whose side wins.

Ricky Bobby for president!!!

Shake 'n' Bake '08!!!