Palin Brings Up Reverend Wright
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Palin
Some McCain insiders have suggested that McCain expressly forbid his campaign from talking about Wright.
Well, maybe somebody should have told Sarah Palin that.
Because in a conversation with conservative columnist Bill Kristol (which she knew had to be on the record and ready for publication) she said the following…
“To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up.”
Well, I guess it’s apparent that Palin is trying to confuse voters and suggest that Obama was actually at the “God Damn America!” sermon that has now become famous on YouTube and across the world. But that’s where we’re at now.
And folks, if you don’t think McCain already made the call to bring up Wright, then you’re kidding yourself. Otherwise Palin wouldn’t have talked to Kristol about it.
However, does this mean that Palin’s witch hunting pastor is fair game now?
I guess we’ll see…
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October 6th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Of course McCain is trying to have it both ways. This is all part of the kitchen sink approach which they announced they were going to employ. Wright is the faucet, Ayers is the sink liner, Rezko is the plumbing, etc. Voters have to see right through Palin’s disengenuous attitude. All I can say is good luck making it stick – Clinton already tried and look where that got her…
October 6th, 2008 at 9:04 am
The unfortunate thing about this, I suppose all politics. I really did like McCain before this election, before he kowtowed to the religious right, before his election did so poorly on the issues that he had to go dirty (consequently forcing the Obama campaign to reply in kind), and before every other word out of his mouth was Terrorist and Maverick. He was a good politician, it just shows where power leads you. I felt similar about Hillary, the befores were different however.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:28 am
The economy is the focus as again today the stock market is down 500 points, not some witch hunt from a woman who is under investigation herself. McCain has stooped to a new low, playing to the racists voters and no one else.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:28 am
This doesn’t bother me. It’s fair game, IMO.
I don’t get the sense that Barack Obama thinks the same way that Rev Wright thinks. So the association doesn’t bother me. We all understand that sometimes you associate with folks of a previous generation who just can’t get it about where the world has moved to. Doesn’t mean you disown them, as Obama has pointed out. Sometimes you take what they say with a grain of salt, tolerate their sore points with circumspection, and value them for all that they are worth despite their flaws and outdated perspectives on some things.
And clearly, if there’s any evidence that Obama was in attendance for the specific troublesome GDA speech, we’d have seen that by now. Yet if Obama was a regular churchgoer for 2 decades, it strains our credulity to think that somehow Obama has managed to miss every occasion where Wright has born witness to the giant chip he and his generation carries on their shoulder.
Obama is not going to get me to believe that somehow Wright’s more controversial views were all a great big surprise to him. I’d like to see Obama speak to what troublesome things he might have witnessed and how he reacted to them. I don;’t think he ever really has, which is what makes me feel that Palin’s comments are fair game.
Is Palin playing desperate VP attack dog? Of course. Does that make her raising of these concerns illegitimate? Nope. The “palling around with terrorists” remark is a bit more borderline. But again, surely Obama is aware of the history, worked with Ayers too often to claim they had no relationship whatsoever, and must have had some thoughts about such a figure. I’d like to know what he thinks.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Gov. Palin has really taken to this role as the party’s pitbull quite well. Attack, attack, attack. Speaking of association, should the Obama party look at her ties to the seperationist movement in Alaska? What will that association tell us about her role as an executive of the United States of America?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html
The ABC article tells us,
Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she and her husband were once member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United State.
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And while McCain’s motto — as seen in a new TV ad — is “Country First,” the AIP’s motto is the exact opposite — “Alaska First — Alaska Always.”
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The proverbial sword cuts both ways.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Hoe can you say he never spoke about those “troublesome things” when it is perhaps the most famous speech of the last decade?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-race-speech-read-t_n_92077.html
And that doesn’t include the numerous times he has spoke about it in interview after interview. Clearly, you have not been paying attention.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:21 am
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Gerry, I saw that speech. It was a good one.
However, IMO, he didn’t address the issue of the extent to which he personally witnessed such tirades by Wright and what he thought and why he kept quiet and maintained his association as is. IOW, while he made sidelong reference to the general Wright issue, I don’t feel he took on the issue of what he has known and how he had or had not reacted previously.
He let us think this was all a sort of a surprise. That part I don’t buy.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Neocon Republicans stay true to form.
They start slinging mud and lying.
How much longer must this nation endure those corrupt, hypocritical neocon Republicans?
October 6th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Speaking of neo-con Republicans. Haven’t seen them posting on here much lately. Hmmm…
October 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
This IS a big deal. B. O. attended this church for 20 years. I would never vote for someone that attended this mans church, just like I would never vote for someone that attended pastor Thomas Robbs church. Same difference in my eyes.