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To: SiouxPal who wrote (208)	4/30/2008 8:21:07 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 601

You are the one who said you agree with 95% of what Rev Wright said. Seems your buddy Obama doesn't. Mr. Obama, of Illinois, moving to blunt the damage, rebuked his former pastor the day after Mr. Wright told reporters at the National Press Club that criticisms of his sermons were "an attack on the black church" and suggested anew that the U.S. government may have engineered AIDS to infect black communities. Mr. Obama called Mr. Wright's remarks "a bunch of rants." "When he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS, when he suggests that [Nation of Islam leader Louis] Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest voices of the 20th and 21st century, when he equates the United States' wartime efforts with terrorism, then there are no excuses," Mr. Obama said at a press conference in Winston-Salem, N.C. "They offend me. They rightly offend all Americans. And they should be denounced," he said. "And that's what I'm doing very clearly and unequivocally here today."

To: SiouxPal who wrote (208)	4/30/2008 9:07:39 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 601

I guess that wasn't the greatest speech since Lincoln anymore? "I could no more disown Wright than I could disown the black community or my white grandmother". thnks to mjdtl

To: SiouxPal who wrote (208)	4/30/2008 10:53:00 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 601

Obama has struggled in other states to win the votes of white, working class voters, and they could be the deciding vote next Tuesday. Noting that even Obama has called the controversy of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright "a legitimate issue," Bayh said that in a presidential race, those voters will take more than the economy into their decision making before the primary.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (208)	5/1/2008 11:39:27 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 601

The real threat "The most damaging thing Rev. Jeremiah Wright said at the National Press Club on Monday had nothing to do with [cursing] America, or AIDS, or chickens coming home to roost. It had to do with whether Barack Obama is telling the American people the truth about himself," Byron York writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com). " 'Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls,' Wright told the Press Club. 'Preachers say what they say because they're pastors. ... I do what pastors do. [Obama] does what politicians do.' A few days earlier, in an interview with PBS's Bill Moyers, Wright said Obama, in his Philadelphia speech attempting to calm the controversy created by Wright's sermons, had said 'what he has to say as a politician. "That, not Wright's wide-ranging social theories, is what forced Obama to denounce Wright at a hastily arranged news conference Tuesday. By questioning Obama's honesty, Wright was striking at the heart of the Obama campaign. The most damaging thing Wright could ever say is that he knows, based on his long personal relationship with Obama, that Obama agrees with him but can't say so publicly for political reasons. Put another way, if voters believe that Obama fundamentally rejects Wright's views, they might question Obama's judgment in remaining close to Wright for 20 years. But if voters believe that Obama secretly agrees with Wright but is putting on another face to win an election, then all is lost." The threat from Mr. Wright will continue "all the way until November 4," Mr. York added. "Wright knows the true nature of his relationship with Obama. He knows what they have said to each other. He knows whether Obama finds Wright's views as offensive as he has said. There are more than six months left before the general election, and if Obama becomes the Democratic nominee, that is a lot of time for the voluble — and publicity-loving — pastor to remain silent."

To: SiouxPal who wrote (208)	5/2/2008 2:36:39 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 601

Polls showing Rev Wright is stuck to Obama like flypaper.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (208)	5/2/2008 11:36:20 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 601

By Gary MacDougal Saturday, May 3, 2008; Page A15 It is easy to be outraged by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's abhorrent remarks, whether accusing our country of willfully spreading AIDS or being deserving of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. And, yes, Sen. Barack Obama should have spoken out forcefully much sooner than this week. But Wright has done more, and worse, than tarnish Obama's presidential campaign. Consider the corrosive effect Wright and others like him have on their communities as they rob thousands of listeners of the American dream: hope that through their hard work they can have better lives.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (208)	5/4/2008 6:40:05 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 601

So why does Obama go around calling himself black when he is only 50% that color. It seems like a bit of coin toss that he landed on black.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (208)	5/10/2008 2:01:16 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 601

IF A PASTOR IS KNOWN BY THE COMPANY THEY KEEP! When the Rev. William Procanick put his hand on the Bible during his sex-abuse trial in Oneida County Court earlier this year, he swore to tell the whole truth And nothing but the truth. But as the former Clinton Pastor was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for Inappropriately touching a 7-year-old girl at his Home last March, Judge Michael L. Dwyer said Procanick Sacrificed his honesty the day he testified. Okay, so now that Bill and Hillary Clinton's pastor Has been convicted of child molestation, will we see the Same furor directed at Hillary that Obama has had to Endure these last few weeks? IF A CANDIDATE IS KNOWN BY TH E PASTOR THEY KEEP ...... Then you u need to email this article to everyone you Know. Here the CLINTON'S Pastor is convicted of child Molestation. So, if Obama bears the guilt for his pastor's comment; then Hillary has to be equally tainted by this man's crimes. GIVES NEW MEANING TO SHOE ON THE OTHERS FOOT... blog.washingtonpost.com