Comments on: The Wright Stuff: Obama sinking in critical state polls

By: Chakra Hammer

Chakra Hammer — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:48:02 +0000

But he’s not tied to it. He’s live in a community that those kind of thoughts pervade… but, in all honesty, many black people live in communities where that kind of thinking lives. If that disqualifies one from being president, you’re basically saying no black person that lives in an urban area can be president.

His speech was a genuine attempt to condemn that kind of thinking without writing off the people who think that and attempt to bring the country together.

Again, I think it has a chance to resonate with white voters. We’ll see.

Tom_Shipley on March 20, 2008 at 11:44 AM

Obama’s sppech failed to even try, and your characterization , is dishonest IMHO.

Obama did nothing to help the victim mentality, that that Rev. was pushing, Obama was a part of the problem, and still is.

By: shick

shick — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:03:11 +0000

Of course the right is going to get the blame for his downfall because politicians never take responsibility for their own actions or inaction.

By: Ace of Spades HQ

Ace of Spades HQ — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:55:27 +0000

Document Dump…

I’m burned out and either I’m just going to dump this all or I’ll never get around to it. Contra my crap blogging today, there’s news busting out all over. Hot Air: Hillary pushing Wright story on superdelegates. She has……

By: franksalterego

franksalterego — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:23:57 +0000

Will the superdelegates have the guts to make that call?
–Ed

My crystal ball sez: There is no Good Outcome – Prepare for the Storm.

My crystal ball is never wrong

By: faraway

faraway — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:57:35 +0000

Obama Lied. Granny Cried.

By: Tzetzes

Tzetzes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:43:32 +0000

*wanting

By: Tzetzes

Tzetzes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:42:28 +0000

Second look at wanted to face Obama rather than Hilary?

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:40:37 +0000

Obama is sinking fast, and he backed the wrong horse in his speech–he should have thrown Wright under the bus, instead of his grandmother. As a son of a white mother and a black father, he could have bridged the racial gap, but he chose to own, rather than disown, his radical preacher. Probably a lot of people have noted that Obama had said earlier that he had not heard Wright’s incendiary sermons, then in his speech he admitted he had. Obama was caught in another lie, after his lie about NAFTA, and another lie about how much money he got from Rezko.

Obama might still lead in pledged delegates (most of the lead came from low-turnout caucuses) but he is looking increasingly unelectable in polls against McCain, and this is only two days after his speech. If this trend continues through the PA primary, and Hillary manages to break even in NC and win big in IN, the super-delegates will probably see the handwriting on the wall–either nominate Obama and watch a McCain landslide, or nominate Hillary and have a fighting chance.

The question then becomes, do they nominate Hillary in June (after the last primary) and give her a five-month general-election campaign, or stage a food-fight in Denver, where the winner has gets a two-month general-election campaign with part of the Democrat base PO’d?

One thing is clear. Obama may still get the Dem nomination, but he will not be President in 2009.

Amazing how McCain’s poll numbers are rising, while he’s campaigning…in Iraq!

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:38:14 +0000

Bo’s halo burnt out. I hope it wasn’t a CFL, he might have to go to the woodshed with Al the Gorebot. I don’t wish that on anyone.

By: DavePa

DavePa — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:18:25 +0000

ADDENDUM TO: I’m telling you guys, get used to thinking and saying “President McCain”!
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Additionally, we should pay no attention to the Talking Heads and their minimizing McCain and talking up Hussein Obama or Rodham Clinton! Mostly, they are pompous, biased leftist pseudo-journalists, working for biased leftist networks and newspapers. They’re the North American MSM equivalent of Baghdad Bob. Their “predictions” are leftist wishful thinking which they’re trying to subliminally transplant into viewers by repetition. They’ll still be saying “It’s too close to call!” when they’re popping the Champagne corks at McCain for President Headquarters on November 11th!
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As I see it: We’ve got two major political parties. The Democratic Party has been captured by the far left, various sub-groups of which are it’s core. The Republican Party is composed (historically always has been) between core conservatives, i.e. Goldwaterites and Reaganauts, and moderate conservatives, who are really mildly conservative centrists.
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Neither of those parties’ core groups are a majority of the national electorate. (Which in the big picture is probably healthier). So, both parties must appeal to the moderate centrist majority of Americans to win elections. The moderate centrist Main Street America is where elections are won or lost.
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On Main Street America, the majority white people WOULD be willing to vote for a candidate who happens to be black, if he or she isn’t far left, and trying hard to cover that fact. THAT is the case with Hussein Obama. That same criteria would apply to a qualified woman, an American Maggie Thatcher or Golda Meier. That criteria eliminates Hillary Clinton as she has far too much corruption and sleaze baggage from the Clinton Administration years PLUS she is also far left, and trying hard to cover that fact.
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This white majority WOULD vote for President for someone like, for example, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Congressman JC Watts, Clarence Thomas. Any of these very fine people would be seen by a majority of white Americans as Presidential-caliber with a strong leadership history and personal values that reflect Main Street America. AND I am personally very, very proud of that fact, as should we all be. It shows how far America has come!
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Despite the reverse-racist rantings and panderings of Hussein Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et. al., the majority of America is truly a post-racism society. In one of Hussein Obama’s few moments of honesty, he acknowledged that only in America could he have risen to the point of being a very serious Presidential contender.

By: crazy_legs

crazy_legs — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:03:13 +0000

amerpundit on March 20, 2008 at 11:25 AM

Once could be argued an error in judgement (not that I believe it was… but it could be argued as such). Twice though… it becomes a pattern.

Obama’s done.

By: DavePa

DavePa — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:00:41 +0000

I’m telling you guys, get used to thinking and saying “President McCain”!
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The Civil War in the Democratic Party will continue all the way to their convention in August. Hussein Obama & Co. and Rodham Clinton & Co. will be so busy knifing each other in this now very close Democratic race, they’ll have no time to even think or talk about McCain. (We can certainly count on the Clintons to exert their maximum sliminess and dirty tricks. Obama’s no slouch at that either, being a Chicago Democratic Machine alumnus.)
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This Democratic Civil War will, hopefully, inflict deep wounds and create great chasms in the Party. This can not only help McCain in the November election, it may very well also help the Republicans overall, translating into some gained House and Senate seats for the Republicans.
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Remember, the Dems only control the Senate by ONE seat! 5oDems-49Reps-1 Independent who caucuses with the Dems. If McCain wins, the new Republican Vice President is also President of the Senate (Of course, he only votes when there’s a tie vote) and the Republicans gain just one seat, the Republicans regain control of the Senate. And if the Republicans gain two or more, so much the better!
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In either scenario, that would mean President McCain AND a Republican-majority Senate!
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Meanwhile, the Bush Administration is doing everything possible to help boost John McCain. McCain is now on a 4 nation trip: Iraq, Israel, France and the UK. McCain was treated like a conquering hero in Jerusalem yesterday, meeting with both the Israeli President and the PM, going to the Western Wall and visiting Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum. There are a number of excellent articles in the Jerusalem Post about his visit. Here’s one from the interview McCain gave to the Post:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1205420721834&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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So, McCain and his Republican team get to campaign, network and raise money. They can continue to build up his image in the public eye, unimpeded up to August (the Dem convention) by the Democrats, who are busy fighting their Civil War.
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May this Democratic Party fratricide continue! May the Democratic nomination winner find winning the nomination a Pyrrhic victory!
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“President McCain…” “President McCain…” “President McCain…” “President McCain…” :-)

By: AZCoyote

AZCoyote — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:45:33 +0000

Tom_Shipley on March 20, 2008 at 11:44 AM

Obama is not tied to the black grievance industry? Then why does Obama support affirmative action and racial preference programs? He admits that these types of programs cause racial resentment — yet he wants more of them. How exactly will that “unite” us all?

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:40:48 +0000

Obama is finished. Yay!

PoliticallyIncorrectSandy on March 20, 2008 at 11:24 AM

Careful, Sandy…eyes on the ball my friend. Obama…and also Hillary…arent finished until the Mav stands at the steps of the Capitol and puts his hand on the bible next January.

By: saiga

saiga — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:36:02 +0000

The idiocy of the American voters is beyond imagination.

Indy Conservative on March 20, 2008 at 11:28 AM

HOW TRUE, but stay tuned. Once McCain grants Amnesty, millions more gullable democratic dupes will come online and things will spiral downhill beyond repair.

Turd world here we come !

By: Seven Percent Solution

Seven Percent Solution — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:31:41 +0000

How many more months of this?

By: Blog-o-Fascists

Blog-o-Fascists — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:30:04 +0000

The Pending Democrat Disaster…

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Both major political parties have a flair for the self-destructive. But it seems as if Democrats are poised to out do the Republicans again on that score in 2008. They simply may not have a good choice left. Obama is increasingly dama…

By: kcd

kcd — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:30:02 +0000

I think an Obama withdrawal is a worst case senario for us Republicans. I want to see a big fight at the convention.

Mojave Mark on March 20, 2008 at 12:21 PM

Is it that you really think it’s the worst case senario for Republicans or do you just want to see a big fight at the convention? : )
I think Obama pulling out would be great for McCain. Obamas supporters wont vote for Hillary so they will either vote McCain to keep her out or not vote at all. I think it benefits McCain either way.

By: Typhoon

Typhoon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:28:27 +0000

pilamaye on March 20, 2008 at 12:12 PM

Would that it were true. But I’m afraid it’s not. Whatever the “elites” think, Obama missed the mark with “The Speech.”

His mark was working-class whites or Reagan Democrats or whatever you want to call them. But whatever, however, in the end “The Speech” is going to do more harm with them than good.

Not to mention Hispanics. It hasn’t been reported much, but I just guarnatee you that speech went over with Hispanics like a lead ~~shi~~… balloon.

Now if you add Hispanics and working-class whites to Obama’s core of blacks and latte-lib’rals, you’ve got yourself a Reagan-sized coalition.

You take them away, and you’ve got The Second Coming of McGovern.

All you need to complete your HRC = FDR scenario is the firming up of a grand democratic coalition on the bedrock of new immigrant, health care, and environmentalist clienteles.

CK MacLeod on March 20, 2008 at 12:13 PM

Yeah. Not to mention women. I’ve got this gut feeling that if she prevails and is the nominee, a whole lot of previously non-political women might turn out for her, seeing her as a chamion and a fighter in a way they might not have if she’d cruised to a coronation as originally planned.

I’ll never be more glad in my life to eat a big ol’ helping of crow and be wrong, but I’m really concerned that conservatives propping her up when we should have finished her off just might be the dumbest political move of my lifetime.

By: Limerick

Limerick — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:27:52 +0000

You can bet they hope that Obama’s polling before Pennsylvania makes a dramatic improvement so that they don’t have that responsibility thrust onto them.

Who needs personal responsibility when you can graze with the herd?

By: Right Voices

Right Voices — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:25:12 +0000

The Poll Gods Are Not With Obama As Another Pastor Surfaces…

Karma?
[Ohio:] For Obama, it’s a 17-point swing against him since the last SurveyUSA poll taken just three weeks ago, going up from up ten on McCain to down seven. Clinton has slipped four points over the same period but still leads McCain by six.
[M…

By: saved

saved — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:24:01 +0000

Wright and Obama = Sanford And Son

Look out Elizabeth! This is the big one!

By: a capella

a capella — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:21:54 +0000

You mean like Kerry did?

Typhoon on March 20, 2008 at 12:12 PM

Kerry was an aberrational doofus and they all knew it. They aren’t going to trust someone with no core base, other than Code Pinko types, with the keys to the candy store.

By: EJDolbow

EJDolbow — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:21:35 +0000

Obama claims he wanted this campaign to not be about race but due to the folks with whom he decided to associate and financially support he is going to deepen the race rift in the Democrat Party and the Country. He is not uniter, he is an untier.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:21:07 +0000

I think an Obama withdrawal is a worst case senario for us Republicans. I want to see a big fight at the convention.