Obama Calls Paterson
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Soon-to-be Gov. David Paterson said he received a call from Barack Obama yesterday wishing him well.
But Paterson said Obama did not try to sway Paterson from his support of Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
“I thought it was very kind and gracious of him not only to extend his best wishes to me, but to extend his sadness to the Spitzer family through me,” Paterson said.
Paterson said he’s also spoken to other governors, including Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell, who took over as governor from disgraced Gov. John Rowland after she served as lieutenant governor.
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I promise I won’t make any suggestions about the blind leading the blind. (My vision is 20:500).
But for Chauncey Gardner to be calling Lt. Gov. Paterson shows real brass on the Kenyan’s part.
Still waiting for this blog to post the YouTube video of Obama’s “pastor” Jeremiah Wright making racist rants from his pulpit last Xmas time. That and other of Wright’s racist speeches are now on YouTube.
Wright also blames America for starting the AIDS virus and says America deserved Sept. 11 and are the worst killers in the world. Nice.
Wright is very close to Obama, and Obama has been attending his church for 20 years. Wright is a racist, and is close to that other racist Farrakhan, so where does Obama get off on this one? This is a major scandal heating up right now.
If Obama didn’t like what Wright does and says, he would have gone to another church many years ago. But he didn’t, and now ABC is reporting Wright even has a role in Obama’s campaign. Obama has a big mess here. Big trouble.
Some very disturbing information has come out regarding
the Reverend at the church Obama has been attending
for more than 20 years…Rev Jermiah Wright, aside
from being a close confidant of louis Farakan,
has made some very incendiary pronouncements from his
pulpit…the KKKA of AMercica, that black people
should not say God bless America..but God D..mn America
that 9/11 was payback for what America has done abroad
analagizing the bombing of Japan with the attack on
the WTC, denegrating remarks about Jews and Israel
and other remarks…Obama has been silent about
all of this…calling Wright his mentor and a member
of the family, putting him on his national political
committeee and calling him a close advisor..
Obama should have left any church where the Reverand
exhibits such anti american sentiment …but he has
remained leading me to believe that Obama will
not be his parties nominee and if he his…the
above will be a huge issue in the general election
wahoo..looks like we posted at the same time..
this is big..very very big
But still nothing from the Journal News’ political bloggers, who apparently have time to post all manner of esoterica. But not hard news adverse to Obama?
The Journal News and others like them are to blame for letting Obama skate so long. They wanted him to save the world. LOL. So they didn’t dig into his background or his present, either. Shame on them.
The Rev. Wright has been a hater for many, many years, as long as Obama has been going to his church. That is 20 years in Obama’s case. Wright is also tied at the hip with the bigot Farrakhan.
All the far left is backing Obama. But he is in big trouble now. He can’t distance himself from this. Wright is even a spiritual adviser to his campaign. The videos can be seen readily by putting Jeremiah Wright + Obama + YouTube into Google. They are despicable.
Obama can run, but he can’t hide, and he can’t distance himself from this either. 20 years. 20 years.
Obama is done…Hillary will be the nominee the
superdelegates will not let him take the beating
that he will get over the next few months
on the statements that the reverend made…Obama
knew this stuff a long time ago…and he should
have gotten up off his rump and walked out of the
church..but he did not because he thought he
needed an african american base….as it turns
out even Obama could not have predicted his
electoral successes but he should have been
aware of the lightning rod statements that he
would ultimately be called on the carpet to reject
however it is too little too late and there are too
many states with too many electoral votes where
many of the voters are extremely sensitive to
anti Italian and anti Jewish remarks..
You guys forgot to mention McCain’s endorsement by John Hagee. After all, he’s said some pretty outrageous things himself, so I’m sure you’re all equally outraged by McCain’s acceptance of his endorsement, right?
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Double standard much?
Walt’s comment is easy to answer. McCain is not a member of Hagee’s church for 20 years. Hagee didn’t marry McCain and his wife. McCain doesn’t call Hagee “like one of my family.” But Obama is all of the preceding with Wright, who has been very close to Obama for a long, long time.
Obama knew all about Wright’s venom and racism. But he kept going to that church, and kept staying close to Wright, who also is very tight with the venomous Farrakhan. Obama is in very big trouble over this. It is not possible for him to distance himself from Wright’s many, many hateful bigoted speeches after all those years of being so close with him. It is not possible.
Fair enough, Wahoo, but that doesn’t excuse the things that Hagee has said, nor does it explain why McCain SOUGHT his endorsement.
there is a huge difference…hagee is not Mc cains
pastor…mc cain has not attended any services conducted
by hagee…obama has attended the church for 20 years
what did he know and when did he know it
Chauncey Gardner’s just “Being There” is a major mystery.
The defect in your reasoning, Mike, is that Hagee’s statements have been public knowledge for a long time, yet McCain SOUGHT his endorsement anyway, in an attempt to suck up to the evangelicals and establish his “conservative” creds. This is unlike the endorsement of Farrakhan for Obama, which was neither accepted, nor sought. Like Obama said (paraphrase) “I can’t tell anyone NOT to like me.”
Not to say that Obama’s pastor is a paragon of righteousness, but I don’t hold Obama responsible for his pastor’s statements, just as I am not in agreement with much of what my own pastor says.
However the issue for a presidential candidate like
Obama is clear..when he continues to attend a church
whose pastor utters anti american, anti semetic, anti
italian statements he has an obligation to walk away
and to certainly not include him in his inner circle
of poltiical advisors which by the way McCain did not
that makes it a totally different situation..ie there
is a long standing personal and poltitical relationsip
which is unacceptable…my point is that it will deprive
obama of the nomination because the superdelgates are
extrememly sensitive to the voters in states like
florida, new york, michigan, and new jersey who will
determine the election
Obama minister under scrutiny
Posted: 02:01 PM ET
CNN’s Susan Roesgen reports on the controversy surrounding Obama’s minister.
(CNN) — Barack Obama’s Chicago minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is under fresh scrutiny, after an ABC News report Thursday shed light on some of his controversial sermons.
In one delivered last December, Wright argues Hillary Clinton’s road to the White House is considerably easier than Barack Obama’s because of his skin color.
“Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home. Barack was,” Wright says in a video of the sermon posted on YouTube.
“Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary! Hillary ain’t never been called a ‘nigger!’ Hillary has never had her people defined as a non-person,” a fiery Wright also says.
Wright, who retired from his post earlier this year, also is seen saying in the video, “Who cares about what a poor black man has to face every day in a country and in a culture controlled by rich white people?”
Wright’s sermon shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorism attacks is also under scrutiny, during which he said America had brought on the attacks with its own practice of terrorism.
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” he says. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant. Because the stuff we have done overseas has now brought right back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
Obama and Wright have long been close. Obama has been a member of Wright’s church since his days in law school, and Obama’s bestselling book, The Audacity of Hope, takes its title from one of Wright’s sermons. Wright also married the Obamas and baptized their two children.
If anyone just goes to Google and searches with “Jeremiah Wright” + Obama + YouTube there are numerous video excerpts of Wright’s bigoted, hateful, blame white people and blame
America “sermons.” He also said America created AIDS to kill blacks in Africa!
Obama has now claimed he never heard any of these things said in person. That will now be scrutinized. But he knew all about what Wright stands for. Including Wright’s own close friendhip with Farrakahn, a Class-A hater and bigot.
Obama told Wright not to show up for Obama’s presidential run announcment last year because he knew what Wright stands for. Obama only is trying to distance himself in a big way now because he finally got caught. That’s the only reason. Obama has been very close to Wright for a long time. I also think this one can ruin Obama’s run. Walt’s attempt to compare this to McCain and Hagee is a foolhardy endeavor. There is no comparison.
In November 1968, the late William F. Buckley Jr, wrote an essay in LIFE Magazine entitled “Why we need a Black President by 2008.”
I doubt he had Mr. Obama in mind; perhaps, he envisioned a man such as Dennis Haysbert (whose fictional presidency on the television show “24” I romanticize).
The youngster Obama (I am six years older than he) is over-bright, extremely well spoken, and surrounded by well-paid handlers who ensure his continued good posturing as he seeks, with a great amount of ego, to become heir to Buckley’s prognostication.
But, if America simply wishes a Black American of African descent to be elected president and overcome the trevails of the past 400 years, I know two such men, self-made Harvard lawyers, more erudite and wise than any caucasian, who are more qualified than the junior senator from Illinois to be chief executive of our country. (They are both Republicans, like me.)
I only wish Buckley had lived for three more weeks, in order to write about both the Obama phenomenon and the trevails of a fallen New York governor.
This isn’t a foolhardy endeavor? Being proud to have the endorsement of someone who says that Hurricane Katrina was punishment for allowing gays? The same guy who says the Pope is the anti-Christ? The same guy who says that Hitler got his anti-Semitic views from going to Catholic school?
You can read Obama’s own words on the subject here…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barack-obama/on-my-faith-and-my-church_b_91623.html
...and make up your own mind, unfiltered by the little tidbits that make it into the media, nor the blatherings of the punditocracy.
AH YES…I can recall when I chartered Young Americans
for Freedom at Lehigh in 1966 we invited Mr. Buckley
and Norman Thomas the old socialist party leader who
I believe ran for president to debate….they did
come and it was a great experience
The comments by Hagee are not even in the same league as Rev. Wright’s. Hagee, over a long career has made offensive remarks about other competing faiths. Rev. Wright heads a self-described “afro-centric” church.
His viewpoints (rather than just a few off-handed comments) are quite similar to Louis Farrakhan. Like Farrakhan, he sees white people as evil, preaches anti-semitism, and basically looks down on this country. Not to channel Geraldine Ferraro but if McCain had a pastor who he considered his spiritual mentor and was friends with David Duke and made white supremacist remarks on ongoing basis, his career would be finished. Obama’s run for the President should be done but unfortunately, he is likely to be the nominee. Clear double standard. This notion that a Harvard Law graduate without standing academic credentials was completely unaware of his pastor’s viewpoints over the course of 20 years is laughable. Moreover, it should be noted that during Rev. Wright’s speech after 9/11 he got loud cheers from the church and no one walked out. It would have been unlikely that Obama would have done so.
good post Ian….
OBAMA for president! A Man shall be judged by the content of his own character, merit and words!
In this America thier is free speach, for all evan a man who, has ideas that are unlike the rest of America, we tend to forget that GOD’s leaders views are not popular. But are bold, and direct we are not to pull punches to sooth peoples ideas, it is not what you want, but what HE directs. America does not understand, why the world hates her, it is because we are in every other country’s business, and not handling or own. Look in your own neighborhood, an you will see or own short comings.
As the theology professor said: “I’ll be C-ing you.
I come from Africa and believe me that there’s no way I would vote for a person like OBAMA.
The media is bias in favor of Obama.
He represents everything
that’s wrong with Africa. That’s is why I risked my life crossing the Mediterian sea to Italy. The Italians saved me and 160 others. They provided me with a new hope on life and for that I shall always be greatful to the great Italian People. Grazie forever.
OBAMA lies and cheats, I should know. He’s like every African politition I’ve known.
DON”T VOTE FOR OBAMA
To all those that were offended by those Racist remarks not all African Americans share Wrights feelings.
Thank you