Re: Obama's Wright Thing

On Thu, 1 May 2008 09:48:02 -0600 "Glenn Dowdy"
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:>"Binyamin Dissen" <postingid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Thu, 1 May 2008 09:21:40 -0600 "Glenn Dowdy" 
:>> <glenn.no.dowdy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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:>> wrote:

:>> :>"Dover Beach" <moon.blanched@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> :>> slidge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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:>> :>> news:s-mdnU0xudZqXYTVnZ2dnUVZ_o_inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> :>>>> Well, actually, it depends what you mean.  I think Jeremiah
Wright 
:>> is
:>> :>>>> something of an egomaniac and he saw an op****tunity to be on TV
a
:>> :>>>> whole bunch and listen to himself talk and he grabbed it.  Why
was 
:>> he
:>> :>>>> allowed on TV?  Because of the campaign, of course.  But he's a
:>> :>>>> willing tool.

:>> :>>> Whoa...  are you saying that it was the Obama campaign that was
:>> :>>> putting Wright on TV?

:>> :>> No.  I'm saying that this is mostly between the media and Wright. 
I
:>> :>> think Obama's camp would prefer it if Wright shut up.

:>> :>I think McCain's camp and Clinton's camp are the only two groups of 
:>> people
:>> :>that prefer that he didn't.

:>> Translation - Obama's camp want to sweep it under the rug, as they do
with 
:>> any
:>> news that shows their candidate in anything other than the best
possible
:>> light.

:>Oh, gosh, how very different from every other politician.

You were the one that brought it up.

:>> Pity that Obama is running for an office in a country with a free
press.

:>Instead of, say, a country where the government very tightly controls
what 
:>the press can re****t, or even view? Know of any?

Quite a few.

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