Letters to the Editor
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Obama of course brilliantly went on FOX
and said Wright was a "legitimate political issue." Now he's going to get bashed with it continually. So much for the idea that Obama was a better top-of-ticket candidate for red-state Dems!
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Nice coat tails
If Obama is all that people say he is, he needs to come out and hit these adds very hard, to the point that the issuers of these ads are embarrassed to be associated with them.
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obama and wright
Wright and the black churches can pursue their version of paranoid religion, plenty of white redneck preachers do the same. But it Obama thinks he will get to the White House without a thorough break with Wright and the whole black church syndrome he is very much mistaken. McCain will bury him.
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Maybe Obama's ad can say that it's terrible we live in a country where
distractions like Wright can be made into major political issues. Then he could actually use Wright's sound-bite "God DAMN America"! That would be hella clever.
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sigh
For the past couple of weeks we've had the opportunity to read about hypocrisy and wrongdoing that were largely uncovered by anyone else in the media.
This week we're back to reading about advertisements.
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Who cares what Insane McCain thinks?
Who cares whether the ultra right wing racist George W clone condemns the ad or not. The old fat hothead is a known flip flopper when he is not lying, anyway. But, he is almost always lying.
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Ok, so racists aren't going to vote for Obama because of Rev. Wright.
They weren't going to vote for him anyway.
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Better now than later
The GOP wants to smear Obama as much as possible on the slim chance that Clinton, the eminently more beatable candidate, can still win the primary. (And given the Democrats' willingness to get suckered in by every head fake, it might just happen.)
Bottom line is that I would rather have Wright commercials running in the fall to an audience sick and tired of seeing them than the ad they will run over and over if Clinton is the nominee: video of her getting received at the Bosnian airport with audio of her talking about the sniper fire.
If she wins, get ready: over, and over, and over, and over.
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Come on, Reality-based Liberal, which footage is more damaging to which candidate?
Obama now has Wright tied around his neck like an anvil. Down he goes. Glub glub glub.
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Good Point, Dittohead!
Obama now has Wright tied around his neck like an anvil. Down he goes. Glub glub glub.
-- cythera45
Only if Dems let him drown and not just ignore GOP attack clowns, like you.
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I think the Mississippi ad will help Childers
People are so sick of seeing someone whack at a dead horse, they chuckle at the hypocrisy and move on. Enough of the people of Mississippi understand that Travis Childers has nothing to do with Jeremiah Wright, that this attack is silly, and that it is GOP desperation.
"Conservatives can't trust Travis Childers?" At this point, that will make him even more popular, since most people know, even in Mississippi, that America can't trust conservatives.
Barack Obama has a game plan, Barack Obama expected this, and those who would try to derail Barack Obama's campaign in this manner are foolish to think that Barack Obama doesn't have a planned response to this smearing.
The fact that we call it smearing should be enough. When did smearing another person become anything but a low and dishonorable act? Part of what Barack Obama represents, is the idea that Americans can once again recognize the underhandedness for the distraction that it is, and treat it as the dishonorable act that it is.
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Interesting
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/
The more visable he becomes, the more diluted the "controversy" may be. In the end it may just make these Republican ads look like the sleezy race-bating tactics they are.
In every appearance Rev. Wright has been making he seems further and further from the media-created monster. It may be a case of Obama not needed to difuse the situation. Wright seems to be doing that himself. At some point he's going to be seen as a victim.
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A question for tiresome cythera
So if/when Obama is the candidate, do you plan to stop the venom? Even if Clinton tells all her supporters to behave and act like democrats? Or if Clinton somehow pulls this out, do you plan to reserve some bile for McCain? (He's and empty suit, too, you know.)
Or do you plan to continue to trot out the same old tired bs until after the election...or maybe even later against President empty suit Obama?
Just curious...I only read one out of every four or five of your rants anyways.
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Republicaqn attack ads
And, of course, the media will discuss this item ad nauseum, re-running it on an hourly basis: Thus giving the GOP $10 of air exposure for every $1 they actually spend.
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On the other hand,
doesn't anyone notice another aspect to this story? The GOP is having to pull out all its dirty tricks and spend a bunch of money to hang on to a safe GOP seat in Mississippi in a special election. Long held GOP seat --- Mississippi --- special election --- three things that in the past indicated the GOP could walk through this campaign and expect to win. Maybe the way to respond to this is to point out how bad things are for the Republicans when they have to resort to this.
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Not Gonna Happen
So if/when Obama is the candidate, do you plan to stop the venom? Even if Clinton tells all her supporters to behave and act like democrats? Or if Clinton somehow pulls this out, do you plan to reserve some bile for McCain? (He's and empty suit, too, you know.)
-- meffert
Dude (or dudette, don't know, sorry about that), Cythera is a Dem like I'm a Repub, except that I'm not trying to pawn myself off as a Repub. If the situations were reversed and Hillary were leading Obama, Cythera would be hammering Hillary nonstop now. Attack the top threat to the GOP. That's what GOP attack clowns do.
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Let's not kid ourselves
This is indeed what the election will be about: women vs men, black vs white. This is exactly what Republican attack ads are trying to do: Provoke the dorment fear in white Americans that once elected, Obama (or any black man) will "enslave the white race." Jon Stewart's Daily Show has pinpointed the heart of the matter, but no one else in the media dares to pick it up. Even if there were no Rev. Wright, something else would have been brought up to remind white voters of their fear of the black man.
Let the real color of every voter show. The sentiment and interpretation of each person on Obama's candidacy in regard to the "Wright controversy" reflect less about Wright and Obama, but more about the person's own view of racial conflicts in this country.
Let's not kid ourselves that just because a black man is one of the frontrunners in the presidential campaign, this country is free of self-delusion about racism. The longer this debate goes on, the more the true colors come out -- what the real state of racial relations is in this country, not what people would like them to be.