On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:51:12 -0700 (PDT), Stevie Nichts
<nix2nichts@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/19/abc-obama-contradicts-a-year-of-denial/
I would be a lot more impressed with your sudden dose of sanctimony
were it not for the fact that the whole GOP is hagridden with vicious,
unprincipaled religious nutballs and scheming, hate filled political
bible bangers who have unleased a toxic flood of vitriol on America
for the past 30 years.
Clean up your own house, cupcakes.
>
>ABC News took a closer look at the Barack Obama speech on race
>yesterday and found curious discrepancies from past positions.
>[...]
>
>Just as with Rezko, Obama tried minimizing his exposure to
>Wright's sermons. Only after finding that a losing proposition did
>he acknowledge that he had listened to Wright's incendiary
>speeches against America, but somehow failed to challenge him
>until other people began hearing the rhetoric for themselves. That
>followed within days of Obama's acknowledgment that he had
>underre****ted Rezko's financial contribution to Obama's campaigns
>by a factor of five.
>
>That initial reaction hardly commends Obama as a courageous
>statesman. It shows him as a politician of the usual stripe -- one
>who attempts to spin out of a jam with half-truths and at best a
>graduated honesty dependent on how much evidence gets made public.
>Obama's claim to conduct himself to a higher standard; indeed,
>because of his singular lack of experience and accomplishment,
>it's the only claim he has for election to the nation's highest
>office. If he doesn't have that, then he has no basis for election
>at all.
>
>Even the contradictory attempt to distance himself from Wright's
>statements failed to make the case. He argued in the rest of
>speech that we need to put an end to divisiveness, and that
>Wright's rhetoric belongs to the past, not the present or the
>future. Having said that, what did Obama ever do to make that case
>at his own church? Wright expounds these incendiary and
>unacceptable themes, as Obama himself admits, to the present and
>future generations at Trinity. Obama's own children sit in those
>pews, as well as a large number of children from other families.
>Did Obama ever speak out even once to challenge Wright's views?
>
>If Obama can't bring change he says is necessary to his own
>church, why should we trust him to bring change to the nation?
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