Some of us would actually like to see Hillary win because we realize she’s the lesser of the three evils.

Your grammar betrays you. Of the three, Hillary may be the lesser but McCain is the least.

but some of you are too blind to see the truth that Huckabee really is the next Reagan

If by “some of us” you mean about 13 million of the 17 million people voting in Republican primaries as of 5 March, then yes, you’re correct.

Your boy lost, and he’s no Ronald Reagan. That model is back-ordered with a 20-year waiting list. Deal, please.

Keep these two at each other’s throats.

Obama is trying to convince us that after being a member of this congregation for 20 years that he did not know about Rev. Wrights controversial statements? That goes beyond credibility and goes to the heart of Barack Obama’s integrity and judgment t….

Unless there is photo or video evidence of Obama witnessing one of these crazed sermons, I think he is going to get past it.

I think all but the most hard-core libs will see through the constant “I was in Phoenix” alibies. You can’t seriously be an active member of a Church for twenty years and not hear a single sermon?

You can’t get away with something like this, even someone as “teflon-ie” as Obama, by saying “Oh, that wacky ol’ Uncle!”

Bikerken on March 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM

That is a good point but,

a) As soon as Obama stops talking about this, the press will as well.

b) Some new controversy is bound to hit Clinton (tax records possibly?) that will make people forget about this.

Remember, to us this is a major story, but to many on the left it’s not a big deal because they sympathize with those very same statements anyways. They see what Obama is doing now as “damage control” to get himself the nomination.

Unless someone comes up with a “smoking gun” to prove he’s a liar, I just don’t think this will last.

Hillary can’t push this the way she otherwise might

If Obama gets the nomination, McCain won’t be able to either.

This is the best Democratic primary ever.

Slublog on March 17, 2008 at 1:05 PM

Ain’t it though, Slu? It’s lose/lose for the Dems.

Looks like “the Messiah” isn’t the only one who’ll misrepresent the comment in order to gain political traction. Jim Geraghty has the story and the McCain response.
In related news, thanks in part to the Rev. Wright dustup, a…

Delegates Obama Clinton
Total - 1628 1493
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The Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago isn’t happy with the media coverage of their former Reverend Jeremiah Wright.  Here’s a couple of snippest of what he said that has drawn the heat:
Hillary was not a black boy raised in a sing…

They’ve gained so much by holding on to it (welfare, affirmative action, etc.) that they will continue to use it to make the white majority feel guilty and racist, which will in turn lead to even more minority-centered programs and handouts.

2Brave2Bscared on March 17, 2008 at 2:12 PM

The problem for Obama is that, while many African-Americans may support more affirmative action and racial preference programs, the majority of Americans do not.

Obama is now going to start getting questions about his support for more affirmative action/racial preference programs. He’s already on the record with this position (he even ran a radio commercial in Michigan last year urging voters there to oppose an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative), so he can’t deny it. Once the 527 groups start running their commercials showing Obama’s pastor/spiritual mentor/”moral compass” Wright screaming that God should damn America (which will be shown in some sort of split-screen with that photo of Obama with his hands at his sides while God Bless America plays (and all the politicians standing next to him have their hands over their hearts), it’s going to be devastating to Obama. The white, hispanic, asian, etc. voters who initially shrugged off Wright’s screeds are going to start connecting the dots, and they’re not going to like the picture they end up with.

Unless there is photo or video evidence of Obama witnessing one of these crazed sermons, I think he is going to get past it.

I don’t think so Wiscon, wait till somebody starts making connections between pastor wrights craziness and things Obama has written in his own book. I saw an article some weeks ago about his book which quoted many controversial things that tend to jive with what his pastor has said. So I think it’s going to be very hard for him to distance himself from that black radical hatred his pastor spews. If the RNC has any brains at all, they should already be researching this, but with a numbnuts candidate like McCain, probably the worst republican candidate in the last century, he probably will not let them.

Personally, I think our troops would be of much better use defending our own borders from foreign invasion. But, hey, that’s just me.

Explains a lot, mate. Didn’t Tancredo support “pro democracy building”, though?

He wasn’t perfect, and I’ll be the first to admit that. But he was the only one that I felt could fix our immigration problem. Immigration is by far my number one concern these days for me, from a government policy standpoint.

The reason why I’m against the democracy building going on in the Middle East right now is not because I’m some isolationist like Ron Paul and the paleocons who like to blame the U.S. for all our problems abroad, or because I’m a brain-dead liberal pacifist hippie, but because I realized some time ago that democracy and “freedom” don’t mix with Islam — which is our true enemy in this fight.

I’m afraid that all the time, money and lives we’re spending in order to try to achieve the impossible in Iraq and Afghanistan is distracting us from the real danger already upon our shores — which is the spread of Islam and sharia. All the while we’re fighting al Qaeda in Iraq we continue to allow hoards of Muslims into our (the West) homelands. How is this in any way a smart strategy?

Obama has shown that he will sink his own ship. No Republican should fear Obama any longer. Hillary is the threat.

STOP VOTING FOR HILLARY!

If she wins the Presidency, she will abuse executive power to attack you, and you will have helped her do it. If you want to protest McCain, vote for anyone other than him on the Republican primary ballot. My recommendation would be to vote for Huckabee, but some of you are too blind to see the truth that Huckabee really is the next Reagan (who better to recognize the next Reagan than Ronald Reagan’s own campaign manager?). You want to suffer through 4 years of Carter again? Let the punishment fit the crime.

Also, if Hillary gets the nomination, the party will implode. The superdelegates won’t let that happen unless the numbers show Obama has absolutely no chance in the general.

Obama is gonna do a slick willy. He is going to wrap himself up into his socialist programs and argue “If you lose me you lose healthcare, you lose peace, you lose affordible housing…ect ect ect…”

He will play defense by using them as a sheild.

The counter argument is to say “America will survive losing Obama. America is greater than Obama’s campaign. We will address our problems and dont have to have Obama’s bagage attached to it. Obama claimed his judgement is what he is running on. As we can see his judgement is faulty.”

If he is allowed to play defense using social programs as his sheild then he can still win.

William Amos on March 17, 2008 at 1:02 PM

No he’s not.

He can’t.

First place he’s indistinguishable from Hillary on just about any issue. Second place, he’s supposed to be post-racial post-partisan etc., etc. The more he talks issues the more he’s just another boilerplate lib’ral.

No, Beckel’s got the dynamic exactly right: Obama can’t recover from this because it’s so toxic to the heart of the entire rational for his campaign.

So all those who wanted Hillary, congratulations. You got her.

Everyone in the mainstream media has had their turn smacking Pastor Jeremiah Wright since the story of his radical sermons ‘broke’ over the weekend. Never mind that the accounts of Wright’s radicalism have been floating around in the blog…

saiga on March 17, 2008 at 2:08 PM

Blacks will never give up the victim mentality handed to them during the civil rights era. Never. They’ve gained so much by holding on to it (welfare, affirmative action, etc.) that they will continue to use it to make the white majority feel guilty and racist, which will in turn lead to even more minority-centered programs and handouts.

Not sure why Republicans or Conservatives get the odd/strange term “neo” tag and Democrats and liberals just get the word “New”.. whatever..

I believe the coinage is due to the first neocons being former left-liberals. Thus, they were newly conservative. This obviously suggests a fairly strictly limited application of the term, to e.g. Podhoretz and Kristol, not that 99 percent of people using it would care.

Back on point, the key would be to look at the internals and see how the Wright thing is affecting Obama’s core segments (not just any Democrats) — any less likely to vote or canvass for him?

or progressive. They are progressively moving the country towards fascism.

peacenprosperity on March 17, 2008 at 2:03 PM

I’m one of these..

neolibertarian

But, prefer the word, “Republitarian” created by Larry Elder.

In other words, there was always a decent chance that Obama’s support could be reduced to core Democratic voters – closer to 40% of the electorate than 50%, portending a McGovern-like or at least Dukakis-like electoral trouncing. The Wright affair helps to make that possibility much more likely – as it dramatically, even searingly reinforces and completes a negative definition of Obama for much of the electorate. Whether or not Wright stays in the headlines, it would take either a new sensibility-shaking event, or a long, virtually uninterrupted string of positive events (already difficult, ever more so amidst a contentious race), to shift this definition again.

Given that Obama pretty much is what Wright exposes him to be – a left-wing race hustler – that definition is more likely to be confirmed and further reinforced than successfully revised. Considering that Obama’s minimal qualifications and other questions about him already made it hard to close the deal even among Democrats, Beckel’s probably right.