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Posted at 3:14pm on Jun. 12, 2008 Frightened Dems pull party apparatus back to Chicago
DNC to be near Barry's freinds and mentors.
By Mark Kilmer
I think, deep down, quite a few of us all liked Howard Dean, insofar that his rhetoric was over-the-top funny and his instincts were… well, "YEAAARRRRGH!" And, as Rush Limbaugh reports, Howard knows the score so far. Spake Limbaugh into his Golden EIB Microphone on Wednesday:
I had a plant today in a Howard Dean breakfast with reporters, and I just got the report from the plant who attended the Howard Dean breakfast, and this is what he said. He said, "Democrats are nervous about Obama's chances in November, but Howard Dean called such unease healthy." I know they're nervous. They have been nervous when the guy started losing primary after primary after primary in major states to the witch [Hillary?]. They were bugged by this. They were troubled by it. He did not get votes from traditional Democrat constituencies. You know they're worried! So my plant at the Howard Dean breakfast confirms this. Dean says, "I'm actually thrilled that they're nervous. I think it's about time. Last spring there was this feeling of confidence, that we're just going to roll through everything, and that's how you lose elections. So I'm delighted that Democrats are really worried about whether they can win or not. I'm just delighted about this! It's absolutely going to be close."
There is no way that Howard Dean is excited that they are worried.
Obama's nervous, as evidenced by the fact that he is moving Howie and the party apparatus from DC to Chicago. Ben Smith at Politico.com tells us:
Read On…
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Posted at 8:25am on Jun. 6, 2008 Wright Won't Go Away
By California Yankee
Just last week, Obama finally decided to do what most people of sound judgment would have done much, much sooner -- Obama finally resigned as a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Now, Time Magazine's Steven Gray reports Reverend Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor and spiritual advisor of 20 years, refuses to relinquish his duties as senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ:
When Sen. Barack Obama severed ties with his Chicago church, most political observers saw the move as a way for the candidate to insulate himself from the controversies stirred by its retiring pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Greta Van Susteren discusses the issue with Steven Gray in the following video:
Obama only expressed concern about his now former church after videos Wright's hateful sermons were made available on the internet:
In response, Obama delivered his widely praised March 18 speech on race, in which the candidate repeatedly referred to Wright as his "former pastor."
But Obama refused to dissociate himself from Wright or the church.
Only after Wright's taunting speech and question-and-answer session at the National Press Club, did Obama see fit to denounce Wright.
Like Obama's audacious arrogance in refusing to get the facts about the success of the surge in Iraq, and his 20-year association with the crook Rezko, Obama's decision to continue his relationship with his radical church and Reverend Wright, long after most people would have dissociated themselves from such blatant hateful preachings, raises serious questions about Obama's judgment.
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Posted at 8:07pm on Apr. 1, 2008 Honoring Reverend Wright
By absentee
"If the church is silent, the rocks will cry out. If the church is silent, democracy will not become a reality in America. If the church is silent, then the United States cannot be united," Rev. Otis Moss III, Trinity United Church of Christ, in a ceremony honoring Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
On Monday, thousands honored Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the man and the message. Barack Obama was not there. The celebration was held by the Reverend's congregation, and was attended and joined by visiting speakers and guests. When the Wright Reverend arrived, he was greeted with a powerful standing ovation.
During the ceremony the Reverend did not speak, but was lavished with speeches and praise. As before at Trinity, Wright was compared to Jesus by several of the speakers. Among the congregants and guests, a consensus view was clear: Wright is right, everyone else doesn't get it.
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Posted at 11:45pm on Mar. 28, 2008 Wright and Obama: A Union of Thought
By absentee
"The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation." - Senator Obama on The Huffington Post
I wrote about that statement in my blog here, in which I called Barack a liar for it. Shortly thereafter, Senator Obama delivered his now-famous race speech, A More Perfect Union, which I wrote about here. Here is an excerpt from the speech:
"Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely -- just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed."
Senator Obama, A More Perfect Union"
Today at Powerline there's a post up about the Senator's first sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ, which he wrote about in his autobiography Dreams of My Father. This sermon excerpt was also previously discussed at The Corner.
Read on for an excerpt ...
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Posted at 7:18pm on Mar. 18, 2008 We, The People
By absentee
Senator Obama, four score and one years ago, my forebears came to this continent, seeking liberty and dedicated to the proposition that Nazis were evil. Five score and more years ago, my great, great grandmother, a Native American, married someone who was, to her, a newcomer to this continent. I have ancestors from the Revolution to the Civil War, from here and from abroad. All sought life, liberty, and happiness.
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