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To: coug who wrote (78178)	9/6/2008 2:43:38 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 89467

Rumor has it that there is video of Michelle Obama “railing against ‘whitey’ at Jeremiah Wright’s church.” If this is true, it could be lethal. It’s one thing to distance yourself from your pastor, but quite another thing to distance yourself from your spouse. Might Rev. Wright be the one leaking the video? Be warned: Again — this might be just be a rumor. Or it might be big — if it’s true. Stay tuned … Update: I talked to Larry Johnson, the blogger who has this story. I don’t personally know Johnson, but his bio seems pretty credible. He was once considered a “darling of the Left,” but has become somewhat of a “bad guy” since turning against Obama. He speculates the goal is to hold onto the video till August. At a minimum this rumor is out there. Larry Johnson, a former DNC guy, is speculating that there is a MO video being held by the GOP as a special Nomination Gift for Barack Obama. In the video, Michelle Obama allegedly rails against “whitey” at Church with Jerry Wright. The former “close family friend,” reverend and associate of Obama. This may be completely false. If it’s true, I have to believe that it’s going to seriously damage the Obama campaign. One is left to wonder. If this is true and a tape surfaces, will Obama divorce himself of his wife as completely as was done with Wright. Trent Lott was basically railroaded because he paid homage to a GOP legend at his retirement. That legend was Strom Thurmond. Senator Thurmond was at one time a proponent of segregation and Jim Crow. Lott was accused of poor judgment. He was run out of the Senate by the hypocrits of the DNC. The same people who still support the venerable Senator and former Grand Dragon from West Virginia. If MO is a closet racist, she deserves no less than complete ostracism. By extension, Obama is guilty of terrifyingly wretched judgment as he has been married to this woman and she is raising their children in these beliefs. You don’t marry someone with whom you have such definitive philosophical differences. Either that or there exist no philosophical differences. We shall see. Perhaps this is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. if true, the fallout should be spectacular. If true, Obama suffers a distinct lack of judgment when it comes to friends and associates. What kind of madmen will he take to the White House with him if elected to the highest office in the land. Will the White House Chief of Staff be a “former” Black Panther? Former Weathermen? Islamic Jihadis? Worse? If he has lived in the same house with a frothy mouthed racist for half of his life and was unaware, how can he be trusted to make judgment calls on heads of states from nations such as Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Lybia, Sudan and the like. The man will sell us down the river chasing peace. And cheaply. He’ll make Neville Chamberlain seem like Patton. It’s a scary thought. From

To: coug who wrote (78178)	9/6/2008 2:48:12 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

you make to much noise then, have you ever seen a bobcat ?

To: coug who wrote (78178)	9/6/2008 6:01:05 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Seeing Is Not Believing Obama goes to Pennsylvania and cannot even convince a hand-picked crowd that he will respect the rights of gun owners: ............ A woman in the crowd [in Duryea, PA] told Obama she had “heard a rumor” that he might be planning some sort of gun ban upon being elected president. Obama trotted out his standard policy stance, that he had a deep respect for the “traditions of gun ownership” but favored measures in big cities to keep guns out of the hands of “gang bangers and drug dealers’’ in big cities “who already have them and are shooting people.” “If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,’’ Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room. So he tried again. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said. “This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’............... Oh, I think they heard the words coming out of his mouth. But maybe they have also captured the flavor of all the other words and flip-flops, especially with the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Washington DC gun ban. Here is Jacob Sullum at Reason: ..........Obama's past positions on gun control and recent statements about gun rights provide little reason to believe he takes the Second Amendment seriously. And as I've argued, it's hard to see what meaningful restrictions the Second Amendment imposes on gun control if something like the D.C. law can pass constitutional muster........... Marc Ambinder: ..........It's true that Obama regularly says and has said that he interprets the 2nd amendment to hold secure an individual's right to bear arms while being constrained by the rights of the community to "maintain public safety," as he put it today. It's just that, with regard to the DC law, it seems clear that Obama was OK with how DC government balanced those rights and is now OK with the see-saw swinging in the other direction............ Waffles served by AllahPundit at Hot Air. Straight reporting of the Obamafuscations here. C'mon - Obama is a conventional urban lib who has never seen a gun control proposal that went too far. If he thought he had the votes and wasn't committing political suicide, he would favor a gun ban tomorrow. justoneminute.typepad.com thks to LB