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Obama is a great politician.


Just finished reading some interesting first hand comments:

 

"If Barack gets past the primary," said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the New York Times in April of last year, "he might have to publicly distance himself from me. I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen."

 

 

“It's been more than a month since I began warning Sen. Barack Obama that he would become answerable for his revolting choice of a family priest. But never mind that; the astonishing thing is that it's at least 11 months since he himself has known precisely the same thing.”

 

“Pause just for a moment, if only to admire the sheer calculating self-confidence of this. Sen. Obama has long known perfectly well, in other words, that he'd one day have to put some daylight between himself and a bigmouth Farrakhan fan.”

 

http://www.slate.com/id/2187277/pagenum/all/#page_start

 

 

Now I realize that in the blogging world, quoting large tracts of an author’s words is not technically blogging. But there is no need to reinvent the wheel, either.

 

However, it is amazing how this lack of a full and honest appraisal of this candidate continues and is leading the democratic populace to a dangerous point of no return.

 

He has been a politician for his entire career even when he calculated that he needed to develop some religious or spiritual “street cred” –Audacity of Hope (as quoted in above cite)

 

I heartily concur that:

“This disappointment is only the first of many that are still to come.” (as cited above)


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It's hard to follow your blog entry. There are incomplete citation entries, quotes and various run on sentences.

I am voting for Obama, I guess that means I am a part of a cult, drink kool-aid, delusional, and whatever else you all can think of at the moment.

I am not afraid that Obama might have the same views as Wright, we all, I hope are educated individuals taught throughout our lives to be a leader not a followers. So we have made the choice that we will lead in our own decisions on who we want to lead our country.

I have heard many preachers, pastors, etc. of all the candidates and from many others which are not running for president. However, I do not harbor any hard feelings from any of their representatives or their pastor.

Fear is what got us to invade another country to find weapons of mass destruction that have never been found.

I reject fear and will vote for Obama 2008

What happened to all of the quality here? Seems like everyone kind of ran for the hills after March 4th. Maybe a good idea.

fear shmear. there you go again. Critique of Obama is either racist or fear mongering. WAKE UP!

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Critique of Obama is either racist or fear mongering.

Or, apparently, incoherent ramblings.

Quasar

Just go to the address and read it for yourself.

Barack - PLEASE just pull a Dick Cheney/Bush --- sorry it bothers people but screw you....the American people seem to like that

If Clinton or McCain had conversationd about contingencies to the Presidential campaign, which were shared with a pastor or other advisor, and that advisor felt the candidate may be hurt politically by association, I suppose that would just be common sense.

But for Obama, it's cold, manipulative calculation, purely for condmnative purposes of trickery.

How duplicitous of you.

Citing Christopher Hitchens as an authority makes baby Jesus cry. Seriously, does this unapologetically pro-invasion d*****bag have any credibility left?

Also, it's only March, so most of the ridiculous whiteman's outrage that's been polluting the air for the last couple weeks should dissipate by then.

Alter,

So you found a malicious hit-job on Obama on slate.com. Big deal. Somebody said something negative that you agree with, aside from that, what's your point? At least the author provided a link to the original NYT story, although neither you nor he included what is probably the most relevant quote from Obama himself:

“we don’t agree on everything,” Mr. Obama said. “I’ve never had a thorough conversation with him about all aspects of politics.”

Obama stated back in April 2007 that he doesn't agree, and restated it again several times this year.

How many times does one have to say the same thing, before you will listen?

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