Barack Obama has been publicly defending his longtime relationship with the controversial former pastor of his Chicago church, but his campaign is taking steps to quietly remove any mention of his pastor from the campaign’s Web site.
But the efforts to “airbrush” the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church from the campaign’s site, www.barackobama.com, have been uncovered by bloggers who have conducted searches of the site in Web archives.
For example, Wright had been prominently featured on the Obama site as the first person listed in the “Testimonials” section.
Next to a large picture, Wright was quoted as saying: “I support Barack because of his incarnated faith — his faith made alive in the flesh. He reaches across all faith communities andeven to those who have no faith at all.” But Wright’s testimonial has now vanished from Obama’s site and been replaced by a statement from “Danielle S.,” a Ph.D. student in educational policy.
Lord knows Barack Obama's Philadelphia speech on race is going to get dissected like a high school biology experiment, but one element jumped out as he delivered it a little...............
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton charged on Monday the Iraq war may cost Americans $1 trillion and add strain to the buckling U.S. economy as she made her case for a prompt troop pullout from a war "we cannot win."
It has been more than five decades since any political party in America has had a brokered convention, and for political junkies a heated battle at the Democratic convention seems like a tantalizing possibility. But for Democrats, a protracted nomination battle, culminating in a convention fight, could undermine the party's hopes of reclaiming the White House this fall.
Since voters in Ohio and Texas breathed new life into Hillary Clinton's campaign, some have argued that the current stalemate will not hurt the party's candidate come November. After all, as several prominent bloggers have argued, wasn't the 1968 Democratic primary battle worse? Didn't eventual nominee Hubert Humphrey go on to lose by a mere 1% of the popular vote to Richard Nixon? If a bitter Democratic race hurts a party's chances in the general election,shouldn't Humphrey have lost by more?..................
In twenty years as a member of Rev. Wright's church, Obama NEVER separated himself from, or repudiated the hate rhetoric of his pastor. He's just doing the narrow parsing necessary to be able to look in the mirror, and carry this charade forward. How does he look into his children's eyes as young girls, when his Pastor spews misogyny, hatred of half their genetic make-up, and disparaging the AA community that has worked past this sorry language to achieve identity as Americans first? This is guilt by association, guilt by silence, guilt by hoodwink and bamboozle. He can't step away and say he's "unaware". He has all his faculties, and brilliance as well. And his legs could have carried him down the aisle to another Church more in line with the cover he seems to be grabbing for. He's more Malcom X than MLK. He's not an activist for anyone but himself. And he won't do a thing to change the plight of those who have been abandoned. And my vote will have an asterisk, as I'm no McCain Democrat. I would never vote for an enabler like Obama...never. I am a strong Hillary supporter, and will vote for her over anyone else if and WHEN she's the nominee. by joann4
If all the superdelegates were supposed to do was vote exactly in keeping with the pledged delegates, the whole concept of superdelegates would be a joke. Those weren't intended to be ceremonial positions. They were intended to act as a counterweight to a system which might allow someone (like McGovern) to win lots of caucuses in red states and thus overproduce a delegate count which did not match his popularity or If all the superdelegates were supposed to do was vote exactly in keeping with the pledged delegates, the whole concept of superdelegates would be a joke. Those weren't intended to be ceremonial positions. They were intended to act as a counterweight to a system which might allow someone (like McGovern) to win lots of caucuses in red states and thus overproduce a delegate count which did not match his popularity or electability. That is exactly what they were put in to do; not to rubber-stamp the pledged delegates.. Pelosi either is an idiot, or she knows that very well and is simply trying to provide cover for her Obama support.
Donna Brazile knows that very well, too; because she was part of this process. If the Democratic Party ever had fifty closed primaries, no caucuses, and none of this inane awarding of delegates based on last election's turnout in various districts (that was put in to give more weight to Black voters), then we wouldn't need superdelegates. But when you have a system which allows Obama to lose the vote in Nevada and get more delegates, or to lose by 100,000 in Texas and somehow win the delegate count, you need superdelegates to be aware of that, and to compensate. Again, willful obtuseness and obfuscation by the Democratic hierarchy. How about telling the voters the truth about the process, Ms. Pelosi and Ms. Brazile? You're no better than the Republicans, when it comes down to it.
by William
'Raw Politics': Dems should have seen it coming
(CNN) -- When I was a first-grader in South Dakota, my older brother and I climbed onto a sled, at the top of an ice covered trail that plunged through a forest.
He stretched out on his stomach and grabbed the steering handles, I climbed onto his back and held tight. A quick push and we were flying; faster and faster, ice crystals stinging, the steel runners cutting like blades.
Then we saw it. Dead ahead. A fat pine.
He yelled for me to fall off; lighten the load so he might swerve away. I held tight. He said I was pinning his arms down. I held tight. He said we were going to hit. He was right.
As we lay in the snow by our crumpled sled, gloves, hats, boots strewn around like a yard sale, two teenage girls walked by. They looked at us, looked at the tree, looked the sled run, and summed up our adventure. "Well, you could have seen that coming."
Michigan. Florida. The Democrats could have, should have seen it coming.
Back when they decided to punish both states by stripping them of their delegates for moving up their primaries, national party officials made it clear they felt they had no other choice..............
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it would be damaging to the Democratic party for its leaders to buck the will of national convention delegates picked in primaries and caucuses, a declaration that gives a boost to Sen. Barack Obama.
So why does she keep helping Barack Obama? She tells the SD's sit still, wait, but she keeps making statements to help Sen.Obama. …Is this a case of do as I say not as I do?
"If the votes of the super delegates overturn what's happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic party," Pelosi said in an interview taped Friday for broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
The California Democrat did not mention either Obama or his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, by name. But her remarks seemed to suggest she was prepared to cast her ballot at the convention in favor of the candidate who emerges from the primary season with the most pledged delegates.....................................
In her interview, Pelosi also said that even if one candidate winds up with a larger share of the popular vote than the delegate leader, the candidate who has more delegates should prevail.
I thought the SD's are supposed to decide for themselves who they think the better candidate is? Is she for Obama? What if after all the people vote he does not have the lead, SD's can shift.....there are a lot of people left to vote....and what about that popular vote, you know what I am talking about, what if Hillary has the popular vote in the end. Then we don't listen to what the people say? POPULAR VOTE = VOICE OF THE PEOPLE ....We won't know that until everyone has had a chance to vote.....Is Pelosi going to let everyone vote? What does she want in Florida and Michigan? One more thing.......the "DEM's FOR A DAY" picking the democratic candidate??? As a 30 year dem. I don't like it. Is this how Obama is going to win the nomination? Read This
