Purchase that HUGE house that Wright is going to retire into?

Does anyone know?

So
Now mydd and other Clinton supporters are bashing ANOTHER prominent democratic leader for not supporting Sen Clinton?

What is WITH you guys.  Breaking blue?  Na...all you want is it to break for YOU

Reading some of the diaries here is like visiting another planet. There just seems to be no connection to reality.

There is a measure of how the voters feel regarging Obama and Clinton. It is called polling.

NBC/WSJ has Hillary with a net negative perception among voters.

Gallup Daily tracking has her behind by 8 points.

We are just walking through the motions for about another 3 weeks.  

Yeah, people do get that story wrong all the time.

However, I bet that it will be retold and retold.  It plays to the perception that the Clintons can play quite rough, even against people in their own party.  If PA voters like that, it helps Clinton. If not, it hurts her.  

But it also reveals the split between different big players in the PA political establishment. And Casey and his dad are more popular than Rendell.  Look for Casey to cut some ads for him.

These parts of Casey's reasons to support Obama were all pretty interesting and will be part of his political argument:

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_upd ate/20080328_Bob_Casey_to_endorse_Obama_ _join_bus_tour.html
 "Casey sees Obama as an "underdog" in the campaign who sacrificed at the beginning of his career to be a community organizer "in the shadows of the closed steel mills in Chicago," said a source close to Casey who is familiar with the endorsement decision but was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

The source, reached by The Inquirer yesterday, said that Casey was also impressed with how Obama had stood up to the pressures of the campaign, including recent attacks over the racially incendiary remarks of his former pastor.

Casey's decision was also personal, motivated in part by the enthusiasm his four daughters - Elyse, Caroline, Julia and Marena - have expressed for Obama, the source said. "He thinks we shouldn't be deaf to the voices of the next generation."

thin margin..

I don't think ANYONE expects her to win big, but its essential that she be the Democratic nominee because a LOT of Obama's support from GOP crossover voters will wither away once the nominee is picked, everybody knows that.

NM

The ease in which you and others slander a church with tens of thousands of members, the biggest church in a denomination with over a million members, is just mind-blowing.

Obama has clearly answered what his stand on this is.  As for when and where he worshiped to the God he believes, that is none of your fucking business.

To characterize Rev Wright's statements as "hate speech" is simply ignorant. Rev. Wright is not a hateful man, and what he said can be so decribed only taken out of context and taken from the point of view of privileged white pundits. I find it hard to imagine that, after what's happened to the US in the past seven years, that Democratics can buy into the "conservative" meme that the United States has never done anything in her history deserving of condemnation.

Please blockquote some of this "hate speech" to which you refer. Do your best to provide some context, if that's possible.

The Catholic church is awash is anti-gay and anti-women bigotry.

And that's not to mention the covering up of pedophiles.  

I know all Catholic churches are that way because I saw a thirty second internet clip of a it.

that Trinity is a bigoted church. As for God damn America, have you considered what the prophets used to say about Israel for failure to live up to the word of God. How is that different from condemning America for failure to live up to its ideals.

I you seem to be referring to the to the HIV created by the government statements.

Are you aware of The "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male."?
Because if you were, this article from the WaPo citing a  Rand Corp. and Oregon State University study   wouldn't surprise you at all.

Nearly half of the 500 African Americans surveyed said that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is man-made. The study, which was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, appears in the Feb. 1 edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
More than one-quarter said they believed that AIDS was produced in a government laboratory, and 12 percent believed it was created and spread by the CIA.

A slight majority said they believe that a cure for AIDS is being withheld from the poor. Forty-four percent said people who take the new medicines for HIV are government guinea pigs, and 15 percent said AIDS is a form of genocide against black people.

Two more quotes of interest by  Na'im Akbar, a professor of psychology at Florida State University who specializes in African American behavior

"This is not a bunch of crazy people running around saying they're out to get us," Akbar said. The belief "comes from the reality of 300 years of slavery and 100 years of post-slavery exploitation."

Today, he said, African Americans are more likely to live in communities near pollution sources, such as freeways and oil refineries, and far from health care centers. "There are a lot of indicators that our lives are not valued," Akbar said.

This NY Times article from 1990, might also be of interest to you.

"Because of who's being devastated the most, and growing up in the U.S. and knowing the history of slavery and racism in this country," Mr. Brown said, "you can't be black and not feel that AIDS is some kind of experiment, some kind of plot to hit undesirable minority populations." Mr. Brown, 30 years old, virtually apologized for his belief, saying, "I hope I don't sound too radical, because I'm not."

"I don't want to believe that AIDS is some kind of Government plot," he said. Then, pausing, he added: "But I guess I do. I do believe it."

Not every AA feels this way, but significant numbers do.

As a jew, and coming from an Orthodox (now 'Conservadox') family, I could point out how women are kept in special clothes designed to force modesty (to the point of wearing wigs), how they can't even shake men's hands and are offered limited educational opportunities.

Joe Lieberman had to defend some of this, and even offered that he stopped saying the prayer that, losely translated, thanks God for making me (or whomever else says the prayer) Jewish over any non-chosen creed.

Oh, and there's that whole genital mutilation thing.

See! You can distill any faith into pure stupid if you pick and choose!

Jerome, you are better than this last couple months of posts. You're pushing a story of decreasing relevance, ignoring stories of importance all for... what exactly?

Both Obama and Clinton offered fascinating economic proposals this week. McCain offered a pathetic one. You could go there and edjumacate us with all manner of your strong political knowledge.

Wright is one pastor at a church with hundreds of members. Thousands of sermens by several pastors have gone by since Obama joined, likely hundreds of newsletters. You can pick and choose to feign outrage...

...after all it is your blog...

...but that's not why we come here. Or stay here.

We being not "the choir" to whom you preach. Luckily, like Trinity, you may be the main voice here, but you're not the only voice. This place is richer than a couple posts, just like I'd assume Trinity is richer than a couple YouTube clips.

As to Jews and Catholics it should go without saying that there are plenty of people who won't vote for either for all the wrong reasons. It is a defacto religious test. Should it be legitimized?

It doesn't matter.

They don't care.  Casey's endorsement now doesn't matter "because he has a chip on his shoulder"

Wrong  again,  bawbie.  

Polls  clearly  show  Obama  has  lost  the  Independents  and  Reagan Democrats  due  to   Wright.  

And  much of  the  now-disillusioned  white  youth  vote.  

And now,   the  "garlic-nosed"  Italians  and  Catholics.    

He's  unelectable  in  November,  and  he  will take  the  Democratic  Party down  with  him.

Its awful damage has been done, which cannot be undone no matter how one spins this story...

I don't quite agree with that. There IS a historical context that needs to be taken into consideration and the sooner that context is weaved into the Wright narrative, the further on the road towards Reconciliation wil this society be.

So according to your standards ever Catholic is anti-woman right cause you know their spiritual leader the pope is anti-choice and anti-birthcontrol.

Also a lot of jews and chiristians (of every political side) are gay haters because many many rabbi and priests say beign gay is wrong.

Any more guilt by association????