The election process is too long. How can any one run for 2 years and not make a gaff. Like bomb.bomb.bomb,bomb Iran.
Now I think of it, I remember hearing that song on the radio during the Hostage Crisis. Presumably McCain was flashing on that. (Then again, he might have made it up himself without ever having heard the song; it’s not exactly the ultimate challenge in wit.)
No . . . That didn’t really come out until after the 1996 election; it was never a campaign issue (except WRT its indirect effect on Gore’s campaign in 2000).
You’re thinking of Gennifer Flowers, ph.
It’s called “hypocrisy”. You may have heard of it.
Indeed I have. Even still, what does that have to do with this thread? There are two questions in the thread.
1)Whose words/actions should the candidates answer for?
2)“don’t you think that apart from his wife, the preacher is the person he should answer for more than any other?”
Which of those two questions does your implication apply to?
The answer to the OP is that a candidate has to answer for no one’s words but his own while he’s running, but that he’s responsible for the words of anyone he might appoint to work in his administration after he’s elected. Wright’s words (which are nowhere near as bad as white conservatives are currently making believe they are) have no bearing on Obama’s personal views or policy positions and all outrage and concern over the issue is feigned (if anything, the Fox News tools are all overjoyed).
The conservative media’s lynching by proxy of Barack Obama by way a few carefully selected samples from the sermons of a pastor who happens to have once presided over Obama’s congregation is the most revolting thing I’ve seen in politics since Willie Horton. It’s a completely undisguised appeal to white fear of the Angry Black Man. I think it’s worse than Willie Horton. Obama himself is being depicted as the black boogeyman this time.
And nowhere near as bad as things white conservatives say routinely and loudly.
So then you won’t have a problem if they are made a part of campaign commercials (McCain won’t do it but others will) this fall … we’ll just let the voters decide. Sound good?
Must be hitting home… Willie Horton and the L-word are coming out already.
Sorry… #29 added nothing to the discussion.
Is Wright is really just "a pastor who happens to have once presided over Obama’s congregation " ?
Obama wants to lead the nation yet he sat on his hands hoping these things would never come up rather than lead. Especially on the issue of race. He was getting alot of votes from white people who wanted to vote for a black guy.
From what I’ve seen and my hope is, the voters have had enough of that kind of crap and are not so easily manipulated. Obama is trying to lift the bar of what is acceptable in a campaign and what we should reject. If McCain doesn’t loudly renounce those kinds of ads and take steps to stop them much of the public will assume he approves of them. The backlash will work against him instead of for him.
Bush got away with some fear mongering and more people on both sides realize that they were manipulated and lied to and where that led this country. They are pissed off about it. If another Republican candidate tries a similar tact and Obama calls it for what it is rather than returning same,I’m thinking voters will be pissed at the GOP candidate for using that tact instead of focusing on realistic important issues. We’ve seen a hint of that already happening haven’t we?
IIRC, the statement in question is the following (linked in the OP in this thread):
All of which is true, and bears repeating, too. What’s the fuss anyway?
Probably.
What is your point?
What is it exactly that you think he should have done? He was a member of the congregation not a leader of the congregation. I think this whole implication that what his pastor was saying implies something about his judgment is total BS when you break it down to realistic human reality instead of political manipulation. They are also playing on a misunderstanding and general ignorance of black liberation theology.
A president has to deal with lots of different people with lots of views. The right leader works to bring people together on important common issues. The wrong leader is willing to capitalize on racial fears to win. At some point the tactics employed by the candidate and his supporters reveals what we the voters need to know about their charecter and leadership ability.
Yes.
Cite?
Cite?