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Title: Daily Kos: 'Uncle Tom' Obama
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URL Source: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/art ... 787_Daily_Kos-_Uncle_Tom_Obama
Published: Apr 30, 2008
Author: lgf / Kaos237
Post Date: 2008-04-30 09:51:32 by Peppa
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Barack Obama’s repudiation of Jeremiah Wright didn’t go over well with many of the Kos Kids.

To say the least. Daily Kos: “Uncle Tom” Obama.

Daily Kos: “Uncle Tom” Obama

I have been a huge supporter of Barack. He is the guy I’ve been behind for quite awhile now. Check my older diaries if you wonder about that. And while I’ve been steeling myself for a Barack loss in November, because I think the Repug machine is too good for him to beat, I had resigned myself to still working hard for him and for the Progressive cause!

But today something changed for me...

Today, the scales fell from my eyes and I saw Barack Obama for what he truly is: a weak man and a standard politician. I really never thought I would say this...

But I am disgusted with him! Subscribe to *Obama Reality Check*

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#1. To: Peppa, all (#0)

Today, the scales fell from my eyes and I saw Barack Obama for what he truly is: a weak man and a standard politician. I really never thought I would say this...

So the Krud at Kos have an issue w/Obama tossing that animated, racist swine under the bus? Maybe they should take a lesson from the Os here and simply adjust positions on the fly? Yesterday morning they were defending that dispenser of Black Racist Theology, and by mid afternoon, they, with Obama, were dancing on his bones. All this becomes easy when you dump your core values.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-04-30   10:00:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Not correct JT. We saw the political expediency of Obama distancing himself still further from the outspoken Reverend Wright. We still defended Wright; most recently in his speech to the NCAAP on different learning styles.

When Dr. Ron Paul did not publicly stand behind 9/11 many were disappointed, but understood why he did not. This is similar in terms of playing politics.

I'm sure Rev. Wright is fully aware and also understands. In fact, yesterday gave Obama another opportunity to widen the gap between them. Although I imagine the media intended more coverage of Rev. Wright to further harm Obama, I believe his response negated any real impact.

robin  posted on  2008-04-30   10:09:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Come on Robin the Rev Wright thing will be Obamas undoing it is clear to anyone paying attention that he did know of Wrights many comments and Black Leberation bent that would cause him problems if it ever came to light....from a article today over at CBS

Some of Wright’s remarks that sparked this mess were made over five years ago, specifically his oft-played comment that the nation’s “chickens” were “coming home to roost,” which he made shortly after 9/11. Obama has indicated Wright was instrumental in attracting him to the church he joined and has said he titled his book, “The Audacity of Hope,” after one of Wright’s sermons. That 20-year relationship will not be easily broken as a result of one afternoon press conference.

“What I think particularly angered me,” Obama said of Wright on Monday, “was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing."

In a New York Times profile of the Obama-Wright relationship in April 2007, Wright himself predicted such a split based on the controversial remarks that were already under some scrutiny. “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Wright told the paper over a year ago. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”

Whether Obama’s strong words of denunciation today were sincere or “political posturing” will be decided by the remaining Democratic primary voters, the party’s superdelegates...AKA the Jewish Lobby...I added that!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2...html?source=mostpop_story

robnoel  posted on  2008-04-30   10:19:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

the nation’s “chickens” were “coming home to roost,” which he made shortly after 9/11.

Good grief! Dr. Ron Paul said almost the same thing in his "blowback" comment! And he was ridiculed for it.

Rev. Wright is not the problem. The media's constant refrains repeating some sound bites over and over are the problem and totally unfair. Red Jones posted an article about "The Fellowship" that Hillary belongs to. They sound really creepy but the media says not a word. McCain has the backing of Hagee, but the media is not making noise about Hagee (and he's nuts!).

Yes, Rev. Wright is aware and understands no doubt, exactly why Obama has been forced to make more statements against him.

And as I mentioned, Dr. Ron Paul never disagreed with the findings of the 9/11 commission, although almost everyone who supports him are 9/11 Truthers. That was pure politics, IMO.

robin  posted on  2008-04-30   10:29:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Robin you are mixing apples and oranges its got nothing to do with statements made by Wright rather it is his Black Nationalist beliefs that the oppressed must rise up and kill the oppressors his church preachers the here and now as opposed the here after...which up and until now Obama knew and supported to try and run from that shows a lack of integrity and honesty two body blows he won't recover from

robnoel  posted on  2008-04-30   10:44:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

oppressed must rise up and kill the oppressors

to try and run from that shows a lack of integrity

Wright should identify "oppressors". Maybe that would help Obaba.

angle  posted on  2008-04-30   10:58:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

You are not the first person to ask the same question

Reverend Wright Please Explain

By Joseph - April 28, 2008, 7:24PM

It seems that (at least in the mind of Reverend Jeremiah Wright) Black Liberation Theology, the truth as he and his church see it, attempts to free African Americans from the historical chains of their oppressors. Putting aside what that mindset says about the victim-status of slave descendents (a huge sociological debate that is healthy and valuable) who does that theology define as the oppressors? I grew up in the Midwest in a lower-middle class working family, but all my Grandparents immigrated in the 30's from Ireland and Germany. No ancestor of mine -- that I'm aware of -- had any role in the slave trade. I've been lucky to get a good education and in one brief generation seem to have escaped whatever limitations our lower-income upbringing put on me.

tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo...wright-please-explain.php

robnoel  posted on  2008-04-30   11:17:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Identifying the correct oppressors might be an advantage for the Obaba campaign.

angle  posted on  2008-04-30   11:24:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#25. To: angle (#24)

He had a opportunity yesterday and blew it

QUESTION: Reverend Wright said it was not an attack on him, but an attack on the black church. First of all, do you agree with that? And second of all, the strain of theology that he preached — black liberation theology — explain something about the anger that seems to be some of the sentiments in the church in (inaudible). How important a strain, then, is liberation theology in the black church? And why did you choose to enter the church then?

OBAMA: Well, first of all, in terms of liberation theology, I am not a theologian. So I think to some theologians there might be some well worked out theory of what constitutes liberation theology versus non-liberation theology.

I went to church and listened to sermons. And in the sermons that I heard — and this is true, I do think, across the board in many black churches — there is an emphasis on the importance of social struggle, the importance of striving for equality and justice and fairness, a social gospel.

So I think a lot of people, rather than using a fancy word like that, simply talk about preaching the social gospel. And there’s nothing particularly odd about that. Dr. King, obviously, was the most prominent example of that kind of preaching.

But what I do think can happen — and I didn’t see this as a member of the church, but I saw it yesterday — is when you start focusing so much on the plight of the historically oppressed that you lose sight of what we have in common, that it overrides everything else, that we’re not concerned about the struggles of others, because we’re looking at things only through a particular lens, then it doesn’t describe properly what I believe in the power of faith to overcome, but also to bring people together.

elections.foxnews.com/200...rence-on-jeremiah-wright/

robnoel  posted on  2008-04-30 11:39:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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