Obama's Jailhouse Conversion

by Jacob Freeze, Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:05:45 PM EST



Jeremiah Wright screamed "God damn America!" and Barack Obama didn't have the balls to confront him.

It isn't about race.

It's about hypocrisy.

Obama talking about racial harmony AFTER he got caught playing along with Jeremiah Wright is about as dignified as Eliot Spitzer talking about marital fidelity AFTER he got caught with a hooker.






kid oakland makes a pitiful attempt to play the race card at the bottom of the comments, but it isn't about race.

It doesn't matter what color the pastor or congregation may be. As soon as whoever starts screaming "God damn America!" it's time for anybody who wants to be President to confront this hate speech or walk out.

Playing along with hate-America rhetoric and hoping nobody notices... It isn't acceptable for any candidate of any color.




Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Eliot Spitzer (all tags)

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Re: Obama's Jailhouse Conversion (2.00 / 2)

And this qualifies as a "Diary" under MYDD's rules how exactly?  


by HSTruman on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:07:27 PM EST

THE (2.00 / 1)

TRUTH!


by John Wesley Hardin was a Friend to the Poor on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:09:07 PM EST

Ernest Hemmingway's Black Beans Cuban Style (1.85 / 7)

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½ cup olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 medium green pepper, chopped
2 tablespoons of tomato sauce
Pinch of freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon each:
cumin
salt
vinegar
olive oil
1 large bay leaf
1 tablespoon sugar
1 pimento (red pepper) sliced
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by HatchInBrooklyn on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:10:07 PM EST

Thanks For The Troll Rating Jacob (1.50 / 2)

I'd troll rate your garbage freeper hit diary too, if I could.


by HatchInBrooklyn on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:16:01 PM EST
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What are you complaining about? (2.00 / 1)

Responding to a comment with a recipe is insufferably rude and elitist, not to mention anti-thought.  I don't know what troll ratings could possibly be for if it's wrong to use them to comment on such maneuvers.


by Trickster on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:36:04 PM EST
[ Parent ]

So it's really true (2.00 / 1)

A bunch of Kos Obama supporters really did jump over here en masse this week.


by Trickster on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:34:00 PM EST
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Re: Obama's Jailhouse Conversion (2.00 / 2)

You can criticize Sen. Obama's association with Rev. Wright all you want but your chronology is wrong.  Obama has been talking about racial reconciliation for years.  You might think it's hypocritical, but it's there, disproving your conversion thesis.


"We live entangled of webs of endless deceit, often self-deceit, but with a little honest effort, it is possible to extricate ourselves from them". -- NC
by Trond Jacobsen on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:17:07 PM EST

Well Your Subject Line Doesn't Make Much Sense (2.00 / 2)

But then the diary doesn't make much sense either.
by TooFolkGR on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:18:05 PM EST

Well..... (2.00 / 2)

that's one perspective..here is another.

   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.

NYT: Mr. Obama's Profile in Courage


by JoeCoaster on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:21:24 PM EST

Where's Obama in the Video? (2.00 / 1)

I didn't see Obama. Can you tell me a frame or a time on the video to look for him?


Bill Foster would agree, Barack Obama has coat tails.
by Walt Starr on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:21:58 PM EST

Your racial divisiveness (2.00 / 1)

is appalling.

This does not reflect well on MyDD or the Clinton campaign.


k/o: politics and local blogs
by kid oakland on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:23:19 PM EST


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