Comments on: Wright Hurts More Because Of Obama’s Inexperience

By: Elisabetta

Elisabetta — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:07:27 +0000

My last sentence should have read, ” the stronger (not harder) the case that Obama is hiding some personal agenda.”

By: Elisabetta

Elisabetta — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:16:58 +0000

GerryF: “right wing bile machine.”

It’s that kind of characterization that makes liberals come across stupid.

You and others are mad that your candidate is under a microscope. Btw, he brought it on himself. Poor judgement, association with bad people and groups, talking from both sides of his mouth.

Republicans are not making the stuff up. Even democrats that engage their brain (i.e., Julie in this thread) can’t wrap their heads around Obama’s double messages.

As an aside. What do you think of the Black Panthers endorsing Obama? Hahahaha…this is getting better by the day.

Yes. Obama rushed – when it became public – to remove the endorsement from his website, but when one of the Black Panther members was interviewed last night on Fox and Colmes’ fill-in brought up that Obama rejected the endorsement, without flinching he responded: “That’s politics.”

All these nutcases must not realize the more they talk, the harder the case that Obama is hiding some personal agenda.

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:34:47 +0000

Since judgment has been presented as the quality in Obama that mitigates his youth and relative inexperience, yes, this hurts him.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:23:39 +0000

The fact that he has no experience is actually what got him this far. The fact that there is no poltical record which can be scrutinized by opponents and the media, the way his personal record regarding Dr.Wright has recently come to light, is why he has a chance to win.

He is in this thing for no other reason that he makes people feel good about themselves when he gives speeches. If he had an actual voting record, then he would stand for particular issues than many people would disagree with. Without experience, Americans can simply project their hopes and dreams onto him, as if he was a saviour of Washington, without any of the headaches or hangups that come with making difficult or unpopular political decisions.

People don’t look at the nutrition labels when they buy stuff. They look at the shiny packaging. That is all Obama is – a polished, good looking, charismatic empty suit – which is exactly what the people want.

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:23:47 +0000

uh, gerryf- McCain did exactly what you are saying he should have done. First, he denounced Cunningham for the tactic of using “Hussein” in a drawn out fashion to create the fear of Muslim connections. Then, when interviewed by Sean Hannity recently, he said uncategorically that he doesn’t believe that Obama shares the views of Wright; Hannity was trying to set him up to say something negative about the guilt by association, and McCain clearly refused to do that.

By: gerryf

gerryf — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:43:26 +0000

That is my worst fear. Assuming Obama wins the Democratic nomination, this would be the first time in a long time where we had two seemingly decent candidates running. I would hope both McCain and Obama would curb the dogs and run a real campaign.

So far, Obama has been running a fairly clean race despite Clinton nonsense…it’s a shame that thus far McCain seems willing to let the Republican smear campaign run free…

I won’t condemn him for that–I am not sure anyone could shut down some of the right wing bile machine, but I was kind of hoping he would stand up and say something by now just as Huckabee did. I mean, after what Bush did to him in 2000, I would have hoped for more.

By: vwcat

vwcat — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:57:49 +0000

it won’t hurt Obama. For one, people already know about this and the full media attack for 5 days leaves little for the gop to go full out on it.
People are also sick and tired of the attack and divide mindset. They are on to these kind of tactics.
Actually the whispering campaign of him being a muslim plant was damaging and now that can’t be used. Everyone knows he’s not now.
Last, they roll out Wright and the democrats roll out Roberston, Falwell after 9-11 and what they said. You roll out all the crazy right preachers like hagee. They want to go there and the democrats will go right back.
Plus, the democratic blogs are very noisy and persistent and are itching for a fight. They are gearing up for the general now.
And unlike 2000 and 2004, they are influential now.
It will be a different ballgame this time.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:15:26 +0000

Well yes. What has he done to show us who he is other than speak. How can Obama reconcile spending 20 years in this church sitting on his hands while Pastor Write preached in his such hateful ways as the congregation cheered him on? Or was it that he had his fingers in his ears? No wait he admitted he heard some of this stuff. If the man was appalled by what he heard then why didn’t he grab his daughters hands and walk out of the place or at least confront the pastor after the service. Otherwise I must conclude he agrees with the basic world view of this church. Certainly the rest of the congregation cheered him on and patted him on the back so it’s an accepted theme.

So Obama either agrees with world view of this church or he has no back bone to stand against it or to try to change it.

No he is not Martin Luther King. King was a doer. Obama is a talker.

By the way, I’m a proud Dem and not at all racist. Although, I may be a bit idealistic about race, I think you can’t end racism by accepting it from your friends and family and even your Pastor without challenge.