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Title: Obama Divorces Wright (ANDREW SULLIVAN)
Source: Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish
URL Source: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.c ... sh/2008/04/obama-divorces.html
Published: Apr 29, 2008
Author: Andrew Sullivan
Post Date: 2008-04-29 15:21:02 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 916
Comments: 66

Obama Divorces Wright

29 Apr 2008 02:25 pm

That was a very impressive, clear and constructive re-framing of the core message of his candidacy; and a moment given to him by Wright. No one will ever be able to say that Obama threw his father-figure and pastor under the bus. We all know that the reverse happened. We also know that this clear repudiation of Wright's toxic, indeed "ridiculous" views on AIDS, 9/11 and permanent immiseration of people of color could not have happened unless Wright had made it necessary. Skeptics may wonder whether Wright actually deliberately did Obama a favor. I doubt it. But a favor it unintentionally is.

Maybe God does bring good out of bad. Maybe these racial and cultural divides can help us understand how better to move beyond them. Cynics may scoff - and certainly will. They will parse every nuance and try to paint Obama as another cynical, positioning pol. I don't believe it. He has more sincerity and integrity than the vast majority of politicians, more honesty, and more resilience in a very tough spot.

And today, we found that he can fight back, and take a stand, without calculation and in what is clearly a great amount of personal difficulty and political pain. It's what anyone should want in a president. It makes me want to see him succeed more than ever. It's why this country needs to see him succeed more than ever.

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#1. To: aristeides (#0)

Barack Obama cuts bait with Jeremiah Wright

robin  posted on  2008-04-29   15:22:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: robin (#1)

Wright will now be free to tell the world about Barry :P

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-04-29   15:37:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Jethro Tull (#4)

This is pure politics. They've been playing media politics against him and so he's going to use media politics to work for him.

I was far more disappointed in his announcement on Fox News that he would be joining his fellow Democrats to confirm BetrayUs. But considering politically, who he does not need to alienate, especially on Fox News, it makes political sense.

robin  posted on  2008-04-29   15:44:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: robin (#5)

I said early this morning that that Wright was in Hillary's pocket, and for my keen observation the Os called me lots of nasty names :)

The problem for Obama is this; Wright is a total head case and he's not going away. Every time he makes an appearance, it will damage Obama. IMVHO, he's unelectable and Hillary just might have made her case to the super Ds.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-04-29   15:54:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Jethro Tull (#7)

Obama has a race problem of his own. He has written about it, and refused to specifically denounce the anti-white comments of Wright. This is important when wooing white votes. Obama kept stepping in it time and again, through his own tapes, and speeches. Typical white people.. clingy people.. on and on.

As much as blacks have their code language, incredibly, it's not a secret to the rest of the world.

They have successfully made a double standard mainstream, while they beat us over the head for not liking it... At the end of the day, oppression and suppression benefit the PTB. We all lose, all colors, all freedoms, all rights.

Peppa  posted on  2008-04-29   16:03:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Peppa (#8)

At the end of the day, for your average undereducated racist, Obama is still black. Only way he has to avoid the race baiter is to change color.

Arete  posted on  2008-04-29   16:10:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Arete (#10)

At the end of the day, for your average undereducated racist, Obama is still black. Only way he has to avoid the race baiter is to change color.

Obama calls himself black. Why, I don't know, as he is half white. So, I guess he's his own racist.

Peppa  posted on  2008-04-29   16:13:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Peppa (#13)

Why, I don't know, as he is half white. So, I guess he's his own racist.

The racists here on the forum have little doubt. He's as black as black can be. Scares the crap out of a lot of the weak and simple minded.

Arete  posted on  2008-04-29   16:17:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Arete (#16)

The racists here on the forum have little doubt. He's as black as black can be. Scares the crap out of a lot of the weak and simple minded.

I think you are wrong.

It is his statments and record that scare the crap out of normal people.

It's the racists or white guilters, or globalist shills that use his color to try and redirect the discussion. It's not working.

Peppa  posted on  2008-04-29   16:23:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Peppa (#19)

It's the racists or white guilters, or globalist shills that use his color to try and redirect the discussion. It's not working.

That's bullshit. Only people keeping the race issue alive are the racists who are too afraid to admit it openly. I know, let's just call Obama a Marxist. Like I said, it's too transparent no matter how you package it. You can spot the white racists here cause they have closed minds, repeat the same unsupported attacks, claim not to be racially motivated and, it would seem have a double standand when it comes to white candidates. It's Obama's blackness that attracts them like flies. That has become all too obvious.

Arete  posted on  2008-04-29   16:31:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#28. To: Arete (#24)

That's bullshit. Only people keeping the race issue alive are the racists who are too afraid to admit it openly. I know, let's just call Obama a Marxist. Like I said, it's too transparent no matter how you package it. You can spot the white racists here cause they have closed minds, repeat the same unsupported attacks, claim not to be racially motivated and, it would seem have a double standand when it comes to white candidates. It's Obama's blackness that attracts them like flies. That has become all too obvious.

Arete, much proof has been posted here. That you choose not to read it or accept it, is not on me to convince you.

That the globalist play both sides of the street to herd us all, goes unnoticed by you, defies your intellect.

Crab all you want.

For months we've been asking for a reason to vote FOR Obama... and nothing but spin was offered in return.

Sorry.

Let me tell you something.. you want to continue browbeating people for being racists that they are not, is exactly what freepers did to those that didn't support illegal immigration.. It was not a good conversion method, and only pissed people off more.

So, you guys keep it up. Maybe you guys are sent by the same one that controls them.

Peppa  posted on  2008-04-29 16:37:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: Arete (#24)

Have you seen this? Please give me your honest assessment of Obama's own remarks and writings.

christine  posted on  2008-04-29 16:50:44 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: Arete (#24)

Obama: A gun-grabbing, high-taxing, white hating, far-left redistributionist, with a real nasty wife.

What's not to love!!!!

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-04-29 16:51:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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