Dick Morris on Wright: This too shall pass

[DesertFox]

Will the Gospel According to Jeremiah Wright sink the Obama candidacy? Not very likely.

Let's start with two basic facts:

(a) Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) has already won the Democratic nomination. It's over. Regardless of how the remaining primaries and caucuses go, including Michigan and even Florida, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) can never catch Obama in elected delegates. His current lead of 170 pledged delegates will not be overcome no matter what happens. Even if Clinton beats him by 10 points in each of these primaries, he will still lead among elected delegates by over 100. The superdelegates will not override the will of the voters unless Obama is in jail. They will not let themselves in for a civil war by overruling a black man who is beloved by the young by going over the heads of the electorate and naming the candidate that lost the primaries as the nominee. Regardless of how damaged Obama may be by the Wright tapes, it will not provide sufficient cover or cause for them to do so.

More (http://jewishworldreview.com/0308/morris031908.php3)

[DesertFox]

Morris may be right about Obama's "candidacy" as the Dem candidate, but as candidate for prez, Obama's dead meat.

[The_Elucidator]

Morris may be right about Obama's "candidacy" as the Dem candidate, but as candidate for prez, Obama's dead meat.

Absolutely agree!!

[DesertFox]

Forget the Straight Talk Express. Barack Obama’s campaign has the biggest bus in this presidential campaign and yesterday he threw everybody under it.

Even his grandmother.

As a former speechwriter myself, I was looking forward to Obama’s remarks yesterday because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how anyone could talk themselves out of Obama’s predicament. How does Obama - the Kumbaya Candidate - explain his 20 years at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s black power church? How does a uniter spend every Sunday in the pews where anti-white, anti-Semitic and anti-American conspiracies and kookery are preached on a regular basis?

It’s like discovering that John McCain is a closet pacifist, or that Hillary Clinton is Rush Limbaugh’s Client No. 9.

Yesterday I got my answer. Blame everyone.

More (http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1081285&srvc=home&position=rated)

[DesertFox]

Obama’s Philadelphia speech — a theatrical masterpiece — will probably reassure most Democrats and some other Obama supporters. They will undoubtedly say that we should now “move on,” even though many Democrats have still not yet moved on from George W. Bush’s 2000 election victory. ...

Best-selling author Shelby Steele’s recent book on Barack Obama (A Bound Man) has valuable insights into both the man and the circumstances facing many other blacks — especially those who were never part of the black ghetto culture but who feel a need to identify with it for either personal, political or financial reasons.

Like religious converts who become more Catholic than the pope, such people often become blacker-than-thou. For whatever reason, Barack Obama chose a black extremist church decades ago — even though there was no shortage of very different churches, both black and white — in Chicago.

Some say that he was trying to earn credibility on the ghetto streets, to facilitate his work as a community activist or for his political career. We may never know why.

But now that Barack Obama is running for a presidential nomination, he is doing so on a radically different basis, as a post-racial candidate uniquely prepared to bring us all together.

Yet the past continues to follow him, despite his attempts to bury it and the mainstream media’s attempts to ignore it or apologize for it.

Shelby Steele depicts Barack Obama as a man without real convictions, “an iconic figure who neglected to become himself.”

More (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDMyZTU1M2YyZDBlZDczMjY2Y2QyZWYwZjFiYWU4YWE=)

[DesertFox]

:roar: "Blacker than thou"

[DesertFox]

There are moments — increasingly rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns — when politicians are called upon to bare their fundamental beliefs. In the best of these moments, the speaker does not just salve the current political wound, but also illuminates larger, troubling issues that the nation is wrestling with.

Inaugural addresses by Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt come to mind, as does John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech on religion, with its enduring vision of the separation between church and state. Senator Barack Obama, who has not faced such tests of character this year, faced one on Tuesday. It is hard to imagine how he could have handled it better.

If you can stop laughing so hard, you can read more of this drivel here

[DesertFox]

To many Americans, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's fiery pulpit pronouncements about race, terrorism and the federal government's alleged war on black youth seemed recklessly provocative.

But as Sen. Barack Obama, who for 20 years attended Wright's Chicago church, sought Tuesday to limit the sermons' damage to his campaign to become the nation's first black president, another view of the retired pastor's comments emerged.

Wright, supporters in the black clergy said, merely was adhering to traditions of Christianity and the black church. His comments were meant to generate thought, and seemed alarming only in the out-of-context glare of the national media.

"Listen to the average black revival or Sunday service," said the Rev. William Lawson, pastor emeritus at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. "You'll hear that we have a good God, but we have a nation that has been unfair to the little people. That's not a new thing."

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[MSGT]

There are moments — increasingly rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns — when politicians are called upon to bare their fundamental beliefs. In the best of these moments, the speaker does not just salve the current political wound, but also illuminates larger, troubling issues that the nation is wrestling with.

Inaugural addresses by Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt come to mind, as does John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech on religion, with its enduring vision of the separation between church and state. Senator Barack Obama, who has not faced such tests of character this year, faced one on Tuesday. It is hard to imagine how he could have handled it better.

If you can stop laughing so hard, you can read more of this drivel herehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/opinion/19wed1.html?ref=opinion

[Kathy30]

The nation still suffers from obama's keynote address at the democratic convention. It was so brilliant, so stirring, that it's hard to accept that not every speech is written by the same guy.

In his hour of need, the black leaders and revrunds are gathering around to support him or pick his bones. I can't figure out which. By their admission, like likes of Malik Shabazz and James Meeks are pledging their CONTINUED undying support and Al Sharpton now reveals that he and the obamamation speak two or three times a week.

The obaminatin played the race card and no one folded. He should do the gracious thing and withdraw. Keep his dignity, and that of his family and withdraw rather than put the democratic party through a grueling fight as the party leaders try to find some way of diplomatically dumping him.

[DeclinetoState]

Morris's predictions about Mrs. Clinton have long been consistent—consistently wrong, that is. I still believe that she will be the nominee, that the Democrats will be united coming out of the convention, irrespective of what happens to Obama, and that she will cut some sort of backroom deal with McCain that will result in his conceding the election to her.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if, at this very minute, she was digging up or manufacturing something about Obama that would even turn his most hardcore supporters in the black community against him. And if she isn't doing that, Bill most likely is. Put nothing past either one of them.

[DesertFox]

Oh, there's plenty I put past them. I don't believe for an instant, for example, that Hillary will concede the nomination. For another example, I don't think Hillary will accept being Obama's veep.

There's more, but you get the idear. :D

[DeclinetoState]

For another example, I don't think Hillary will accept being Obama's veep.
Not unless she has a plan for getting him out of the way once he's elected. Even if the stats on untimely deaths of Clinton friends and associates are mostly an urban legend, one more coffin to step over on the way to the Oval Office wouldn't faze them.

[Suzie]

Did you guys catch Huckabee defending Wright on MSNBC? Excusing him for probably not writing all his sermons himself and "getting caught up in the moment. Here's the you tube, there is a lot of other small talk garbage before they really get into it. I you want to scroll up to about 3:50 into the play that's close to where they start talking about it.

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[terri]

Not unless she has a plan for getting him out of the way once he's elected. Even if the stats on untimely deaths of Clinton friends and associates are mostly an urban legend, one more coffin to step over on the way to the Oval Office wouldn't faze them.

I think they need to put a web cam in Fort Marcy Park.

[BackFromIraq]

I feel that Dick is out of touch with the American electorate....these issues are gonna cut deeper than he thinks. Ofcourse there will always be those that are so far left and shoved so far up Obama's (clip that) that they will still pull the lever for him. On the other hand I feel that most American's are gonna find this too radical and too risky to vote for this man.

[The_Elucidator]

I feel that Dick is out of touch with the American electorate....these issues are gonna cut deeper than he thinks. Ofcourse there will always be those that are so far left and shoved so far up Obama's (clip that) that they will still pull the lever for him. On the other hand I feel that most American's are gonna find this too radical and too risky to vote for this man.

As bad of a candidate as Sen McCain is; the 'Rat candidate will be so badly damaged that they will lose in November. Tricky Dick's opinion changes as the wind blows.