Talks about conflicting poll numbers on the toll of l’affaire Wright and the effectiveness of Obama’s Wright denouncement last Tuesday. A new New York Times/CBS poll suggests that Obama’s denouncement was a success, with the Illinois senator enjoying a 12-point lead over Hillary Clinton, an eight-point improvement from a Times/CBS poll released just a few days earlier. The poll does include a cautionary note for Obama:
While just 24 percent of voters said they thought the Wright issue would matter a lot or some to them in the fall, 44 percent said it would matter a lot or some to “most people you know.”
Now check out this jaw-dropping report on Clinton taking the lead in USA Today’s new poll:
In the USA TODAY survey, taken Thursday through Saturday, Clinton leads Obama among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents by 7 percentage points, the first time in three months she has been ahead. Two weeks ago, before the controversy over comments by Jeremiah Wright reignited, Obama led by 10 points.
That would be quite a turnaround. And even the Times/CBS poll notes that among all Democrats–whether or not they have voted in primaries or plan to–Obama and Clinton are tied. So despite evidence that Obama mitigated damage from Wright last week, the Wright toll appears to be real and lasting.
And Clinton has largely stayed away from bringing Wright up on the campaign trail. There are plenty of signs that the GOP and its allies won’t be nearly so reluctant.
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posted May 5, 2008 at 3:11 pm
There are at least ten reasons to not vote for Obama, that do not include his lack of judgement in choosing Wright as a pastor:
1)Obama refuses to speak to reporters/walks out of conferences. He is not a transparent politician.
2)He was involved with Tony Rezko, who was indicted for influence peddling and is a corrupting influence in Illinois politics. Tony Rezko got millions of dollars from the government to create affordable housing in Obama’s district, now 11 of the buildings he was supposed to fix are boarded-up and are unlivable.
3)Obama supports nuclear power even though radioactive nuclear waste is a problem no country has solved, the added terrorist threat that nuclear power poses, and the history of accidents such as Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Obama supports nuclear power because he was bought off by the nuclear power utility industry. He has taken a lot of money from them.
4)Obama voted “present” hundreds of times instead of taking a stand because he did not want to offend contributors, like Robert Blackwell, who Obama helped obtain state grants for.
5)Obama chose as his mentor Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who are terrorists who detonated bombs on US territory and they helped him start his career.
6)Obama lied about filling out a questionnaire that details his stand on many important issues like abortion, the death penalty and gun control. It has his handwriting but he said a staffer filled it out. Obama also lied about the Kennedy family helping his father.
7)Obama also has acknowledged that he “voted by mistake” many times?!
8)Obama made a statement that said his grandmother is “a typical white person” who has a “reaction bred” into her when she sees someone she does not know.
9)Obama made a statement that small-town Americans are bitter and cling to guns, religion, and anti-trade sentiment.
10)Obama lies about the Clinton economic boom, if you go to FactCheck.org, you will see that Clinton is credited for passing the 1993 budget that helped create the boom of the 1990s.
Watch the videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAUJeeKohNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvoGAcG0vZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5l6oAD5d-s
posted May 5, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I would not vote for any candidate that has to thick, thin, nit pick and discuss and carry out a wit matching contest between each other’s bad points and their associates rather than focus on their objective to be. Which seems to be the main attraction of the candidates
posted May 5, 2008 at 9:16 pm
IT’S THE MESSAGE…..NOT THE MESSENGER
Obama told the New York Times he will continue his membership in Trinity United Church of Christ and “ I still very much value the Trinity community.” where Black Liberation Theology as it has expressed itself in the African-American community seeks to find a way to make the gospel relevant to black people who must struggle under the daily burden of white oppression is preached by former pastor, Rev.Wright and current hip-hop pastor Rev. Otis Moss.(whom Obama said was “wonderful”) Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”
THE QUESTION THAT OBAMA NEVER ANSWERED (WITH CLARITY)
1.Does Obama believe in and practice Black Liberation Theology OR is Obama naïve- unaware,as he claims, of the anti-American & anti-white, statements preached at TUCC? Either way it shows poor judgment……and Barack Obama is unfit to occupy the Oval Office.
2.If he doesn’t subscribe to the BLT then why hasn’t Obama walked away from this racist church?… Oprah did.
Change 08…..you bet, more radical than you can ever envision!
posted May 6, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Ellen,
When you say ‘Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy’
do you have evidence of that sweeping statement? There’s no such thing as black liberation theology that doesn’t call for the destruction of the white enemy? After all, even Trinity UCC has white members, and whites have said they’ve been welcomed there as guests.