Obama Not Through With Troubles From Pastor Wright
The WSJ says that Obama May Not Have Fully Contained Damage From Ex-Pastor, and I tend to agree with that. Obama may have jumped back up in the polls, but we need to keep an eye on the areas that he he needs:
Sen. Barack Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race relations last month seemed to put the controversial remarks of his former pastor behind him. But three weeks later, there is evidence of lingering damage.
“It has not been defused,” says David Parker, a North Carolina Democratic Party official and unpledged superdelegate. He says his worries about Republicans questioning Sen. Obama’s patriotism prompted him to raise the issue of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.’s remarks in conversations with both the Obama and Clinton campaigns. :
Recent polls suggest that, in key swing states, the New York senator fares better in head-to-head matchups with Republican nominee Sen. John McCain than does Sen. Obama. In Ohio, Sen. Clinton led Sen. McCain 48% to 39%, while Sen. Obama led Sen. McCain 43% to 42% in Quinnipiac University polls conducted in the last week of March.
In Pennsylvania, Sen. Clinton had a 48% to 40% lead against Sen. McCain while Sen. Obama was ahead 43% to 39%. The polls credit Sen. Clinton’s advantage to her strength among white voters. No Democrat has won the presidency with a majority of white voters since 1964, and no president from either party has been elected without winning two of the three swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida since 1960. In those three states, some 23% of white Democrats would defect to Sen. McCain in a matchup with Sen. Obama, compared with 11% who would abandon Sen. Clinton, according to the Quinnipiac polls.
The general election should prove to be interesting if Obama is selected as the nominee.
Ed and Jeralyn have more on that.
Now turn to the article; Dialogue on race could begin on hallowed ground, about the damage from the words Reverend Wright spoke:
Is this a great country or what? Yet while he relaxes, the rest of us are asked to have another national dialogue on race? I don’t know about you, but my ears hurt.
Actually, we don’t talk about race. Instead, we talk about talking about race, which is easy. TV does it best. Slap an angry Wright up on the screen and a reasonable Obama, and then go find some tape of an angry white guy and you’re home for supper.
But if we really talked about race, we’d really talk about unfair racial preferences in college and graduate school admissions, in hiring and on tax-subsidized public contracts. We’d talk about the horrendous drop-out rate in big city high school systems run by political bosses who, year after year after year, use minority school children as cash cows to cement their power.
It’s been so corrosive for so long, black resentment over white bigotry and white resentment over racial preferences (which is, in effect, institutionalized racism); and the abandonment of minority schools, generation after generation dropping out, left behind.
We can’t talk about it. It gets too loud and too angry too fast.
But I know a quiet place, where you can think about race and sacrifice. It’s not an angry place now. It’s sacred.Gettysburg, Pa.
At Gettysburg, most folks don’t talk much. They’re quiet. They listen. It is the site of the famous battle of the Civil War. It began July 1, 1863, and lasted three days. When it was done, some 23,000 Union troops died in trying to break the South. Even more Confederates died.We drove to Gettysburg last year and toured killing grounds with names like Little Round Top, the Peach Orchard, Devil’s Den, the Wheatfield, slaughter beyond imagining.
One aspect isn’t mentioned often. It involves the farm hogs that went wild and hunted the battlefields at night, hungry for the dead and dying soldiers.
One such story belongs to Lt. Berzila J. Inman of the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was wounded, and his account was chronicled in “Early Photography at Gettysburg” by William Frassanito, published by Thomas Publications.
“That night a number of stray hogs came to where I lay and commenced rooting and tearing at the dead men around me . . . one that looked of enormous size approached and attempted to poke me”grunting loudly all the while. Several others came up, when, waiting on my chance, I jammed my sword into his belly, which made him set up a prolonged, sharp cry. By constant vigilance and keeping from sleeping I contrived to fight the monsters off until daylight.”
So the next group of politicians demanding a sacred dialogue on race should just drive to Gettysburg. They can think of all those souls, fighting to hold the Union and stop slavery, and all those who died defending the South and its slaveholding ways.
It didn’t end there. The hatefulness continued for years, and still does, and shamefully.
But at least you can have a dialogue, a quiet one, a sacred one, alone, a dialogue with yourself, without politics, looking out where thousands upon thousands of Americans died, bringing freedom to others.
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April 7, 2008 - 07:40 AM on April 7th, 2008
SCHLITZ!
I used to drink Schlitz back when every penny counted, you remember the days, hell, those are still the days! We used to jokingly call it “Shitz” because of the “bubble guts” that would attack the morning after. Ah the memor…
April 7, 2008 - 07:44 AM on April 7th, 2008
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April 7, 2008 - 09:21 AM on April 7th, 2008
[...] Right Voices wrote an interesting post today on Obama Not Through With Troubles From Pastor WrightHere’s a quick excerpt The WSJ says that Obama May Not Have Fully Contained Damage From Ex-Pastor, and I tend to agree with that. Obama may have jumped back up in the polls, but we need to keep an eye on the areas that he he needs: Sen. Barack Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race relations last month seemed to put the controversial remarks of his former pastor behind him. But three weeks later, there is evidence of lingering damage. “It has not been defused,”says David Parker, a North Carolina Democratic Party offi [...]
April 7, 2008 - 01:40 PM on April 7th, 2008
Any debt America had to the slaves has long ago been paid. Now the only thing left is for the Democrite Party to acknowledge and beg forgiveness for its Jim Crow racism well into the 1960s.
And to acknowledge its hypocrisy and racism in maintaining the modern virtual plantation.
April 7, 2008 - 04:18 PM on April 7th, 2008
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April 7, 2008 - 08:19 PM on April 7th, 2008
The Government Squeeze
Podcast Show Notes
Many are tightening their belts in these tight economic times. There are Several State governments that aren’t and would rather try and squeeze taxpayers.
Iowa looks at taxing typos, while California goes after music downloads,…
April 7, 2008 - 08:19 PM on April 7th, 2008
The Government Squeeze
Podcast Show Notes
Many are tightening their belts in these tight economic times. There are Several State governments that aren’t and would rather try and squeeze taxpayers.
Iowa looks at taxing typos, while California goes after music downloads,…
April 7, 2008 - 08:19 PM on April 7th, 2008
The Government Squeeze
Podcast Show Notes
Many are tightening their belts in these tight economic times. There are Several State governments that aren’t and would rather try and squeeze taxpayers.
Iowa looks at taxing typos, while California goes after music downloads,…
April 7, 2008 - 08:29 PM on April 7th, 2008
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April 7, 2008 - 09:00 PM on April 7th, 2008
Another Liberal Attempt to Destroy John McCain
NO CONSERVATIVE DEFENSE, EITHER!I’ve been sitting on this since about mid-afternoon – a good 4 hours, waiting to see if any CONSERVTIVE blogger would come to John McCain’s rescue. So far, only two, mentioned below have behaved with honor.&n…
April 7, 2008 - 09:46 PM on April 7th, 2008
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April 7, 2008 - 11:30 PM on April 7th, 2008
Vets For Freedom Go To Washington
Today is Monday, but I happen to know they reached DC yesterday. Pretty good time, eh? They sure did have many thrilling experiences along the way, starting with San Diego, CA. Here is what they have to say in an e-mail today: …
April 8, 2008 - 12:37 AM on April 8th, 2008
One of Tennessee’s Anti-war groups has some strange bedfellows
Welcome readers from Wizbang, Stop the ACLU and many more sites who linked to me today. The word is getting out, thank you!Â
I want to preface this story with two comments. One, I typically avoid labeling anti war groups as commies or socialists u…
April 8, 2008 - 12:45 AM on April 8th, 2008
Question: Why are they raising the toll on the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
Answer:
You still have some money, and they want it.
Alternate answer: Because they think you will let them.
Exit question: Are we people or sheep to be shorn at every opportunity?
Nuff Said.
Trackposted to Ou…
April 8, 2008 - 01:44 AM on April 8th, 2008
Dutch Court upholds free speech
Via Hot Air:
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April 8, 2008 - 02:03 AM on April 8th, 2008
Dutch Court uphold free speech against Islam
Props to the Dutch Court for not folding under Islamofacist pressure.
Dutch court: Geert Wilders has free-speech right to criticize Islam
Amazing, the things that are litigable these days. This wasn’t the public prosecution hinted …
April 8, 2008 - 05:52 AM on April 8th, 2008
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April 8, 2008 - 05:53 AM on April 8th, 2008
Obama Says He Has Most Foreign Experience. No Really!
Laughter is not helping. Breathe, breathe. Whew. OK
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April 8, 2008 - 10:07 AM on April 8th, 2008
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April 8, 2008 - 10:07 AM on April 8th, 2008
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April 8, 2008 - 10:10 AM on April 8th, 2008
CBS Said To Consider Use Of CNN In Reporting
CBS is publicly saying it isn’t true but an article in the NY Times says otherwise. Will this be another example of “don’t believe something until it’s been officially deniedâ€?
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April 8, 2008 - 11:30 AM on April 8th, 2008
Conservatives Giveth and Conservatives Taketh Away
ARROGANCE 101I think most of my regular Pink Flamingo readers know I am not much of a friend of “conservative”bloggers, not the ‘top shelf”ones anyway. I find them to be arrogant, hypocritical, anti-Republican, self-serving individuals …
April 8, 2008 - 12:22 PM on April 8th, 2008
Iraqi boy receives surgery thanks to Marine
A story from Haditha Iraq you won’t hear much about in the MSM: From Gainesville Times: Ammar Haddad Muhammad, a 5-year-old Iraqi boy, and his father landed on time Saturday night in Charleston, S.C., to begin the process of getting
April 8, 2008 - 12:27 PM on April 8th, 2008
Charlton Heston Speaks On Global Climate Change!
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April 8, 2008 - 07:49 PM on April 8th, 2008
Pigeontrack: An “Absolut” World
Un pigeoned believable! AP: The Absolut vodka company apologized Saturday for an ad campaign depicting the southwestern U.S. as part of Mexico amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers. The campaign, which promotes ideal scenarios under the slogan
April 8, 2008 - 07:51 PM on April 8th, 2008
Crooks And Liars On Patraeus
I just had to do a dumpster dive. Why am I not surprised by what I found? I refuse to go farther then Crooks and Liars. Can only take so much of the douchebattery from them. These comments were found in a post about one of the rude protesters
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April 8, 2008 - 08:25 PM on April 8th, 2008
Barrack Obama – 100 years of *fill in the blank*
Obama and his campaign (along with Hillary!) have been making much of John McCain using the term 100 years in regard to Iraq. The claim being that McCain is ok with war lasting 100 years. But in a case of perhaps hell is seeing …
April 9, 2008 - 11:57 PM on April 9th, 2008
Vets4Freedom, Gen. Petraeus, and USN Monsoor MOH
Vets For Freedom was covered by many bloggers, but I have one the best posts which has the speeches, many pics, and witty humor. I also have the transcript prior to Gen. Petraeus’ meeting with the goons. Let us not forgot forget, EVER, US Navy SEAL ….
April 9, 2008 - 11:59 PM on April 9th, 2008
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April 29, 2008 - 08:45 AM on April 29th, 2008
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