Comments on: GOP Sees Rev. Wright As Pathway To Victory

Politico: Strategists Think Controversy Over Obama's Pastor Will Motivate Conservative Base

[jjp735i]

Well of course the GOP would think the controversy over Obama''s Pastor would motivate the conservative base, they know a good Nazi when they hear one.

[greatdrivew]

Are you tired of the deceit and division of yesterday''s politics?

If so, then welcome to the new majority. Obama 2008

[ranger1948]

realpatriot1
I hadn''t heard abot falwell and robertson making those remarks, maybe because i never listen to them anyway. Al;ways considered them scam artists. I f they made those remarks they should be held as accountable as wright, but wright did make those remarks and was associated with farakhan and the black panthers. obama aligned himself with the church now is suffereing from guilt from assiciation. Ithink it has killed his political career. Actually i don''t want to vote for any of the three candidates. I am tired of the less evil selection process. I didn''t trust obama from the start and i think this issue has proven i was right not to trust him.

[ranger1948]

bhenson1966
And you still haven''t learned since third grade ?

[greatdrivew]

McCain = pandering to special interests [even on his campaign bus]
Obama = no pandering to special interests

McCain = influence, corruption & division
Obama = dialogue, inclusion & change

McCain = popular votes received in primaries in OH [636,256], TX [709,477] & WI [224,226]
Obama = popular votes received in primaries in OH [979,025], TX [1,358,785] & WI [646,007]

McCain = no plan for health care
Obama = affordable coverage for all

McCain = no plan for the economy
Obama = middle class tax cuts, war-spending cuts and targeted domestic investment

McCain = 100 years in Iraq
Obama = immediate, enlightened redeployment

McCain = tax dollars go to special interests & war
Obama = tax dollars go to health, rebuilding military, education & infrastructure

McCain = continue with Bush%u2019s tax breaks for the wealthy
Obama = ensure tax cuts for the working middle class

McCain = What, NAFTA rewards slave labor? Oh well, get over it, Michigan!!
Obama = renegotiate NAFTA to include enforceable labor and environmental standards.

McCain = %u201CBomb, bomb, bomb . . . bomb, bomb Iran.%u201D
Obama = diplomacy, reason and sanity . . . not war, death & destruction [see above].

McCain = viewed internationally as an extension of Bush, Cheney and the disgraced neocons
Obama = a natural born diplomat

McCain = lame duck from the start
Obama = living history

McCain = last-ditch candidate of the terminally corrupted neocons
Obama = the future

[samthetvcat]

PS So anyway, if the surge is shown to be a failure and the economy''s in the toilet, are people really going to be thinking that voting for the ''black guy'' with the plans to go forward is not the better deal than the guy who is then shown to not know anything about war or the economy?

For some, but for a lot of others, people are just going to get fed of up time-wasters who can only play youTube videos rather than offer solutions . . . time for a change . . .

Obama ''08!

[samthetvcat]

pt 1

Ah ha ha ha ha ha - I just saw this article . . . the biggest achilles heel of the GOPigs are overconfidence due to underestimating one''s opponent, need to feel that they''re ''winning'', and inability to pinpoint the array of factors affecting an outcome. Let me use examples from the esteemed GOPig past to highlight these qualities:

David Frum, NRO (02/24/03) - "[T]he Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts."

William Krystol (04/01/03) - "The larger question with respect to Iraq, as with Afghanistan, is what happens after the combat is concluded. American and alliance forces will be welcomed in Baghdad as liberators. "

Fred Barnes (04/10/03) - "[I]t gets easier now. The war was the hard part. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but it is not as hard as winning a war."

[samthetvcat]

pt 2

Former CIA director James Woolsey (12/14/03) - "Saddam is captured by American soldiers hiding in a hole, together with other rats - this is, if not the beginning of the end, this is at least the end of the beginning of getting rid of the Ba''athist resistance"

Sean Hannity (4/10/03) - "You keep mentioning these same naysayers. [T]hey were lecturing us on how it wasn''t well thought out, [on how] all of these thousands of troops are going to die. [T]hey''ve actually made fools of them themselves."
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Back to where we are today: Is the surge really ''winning'' or are Iraqis taking advantage of the Right''s need to FEEL like they''re winning to strengthen their firepower and pocketbooks (at our expense), and weaken our military and our economy to their breaking point before they strike? Given that Iraqi''s have an economic and nationalistic incentive to kick the foreign oil predators out of their country, why wouldn''t they?

[mizty007]

Obama Speech Summary:
"I can''t change my church."
"I can''t change my pastor."
"I can''t change my grandma."
"I can''t change myself."

"I can change America!"

[baptox]

McCain was the victim of vicious rumor-mongering by George Bush''s camp many years ago in South Carolina.

I don''t think this will sink Obama as the repercusions of the Republican legacy are becoming too evident to ignore.

Translation: It''s the economy, stupid...And the economy under Republicans has gone to hell in the proverbial handbasket.

[petesis]

GOP sees Wright as a way to help the Hildebeast steal the election from Obama. Then everyone will be disgusted with her and McCain will win easily. At least McCain is better than Bush. (Who could do worse?)

[verycold]

This is NOT a Swiftboat. This is all Barack Obama''s fault when he chose to stay with this church and when he chose to not deal with what he had to know was going to be a big problem. He wrote his books to stay out in front of trouble. He admitted he did drugs to say it before it was reported. He needed to do the same thing about Wright. The reason he didn''t is the the same reason he only denounced his words, not the person and that is because he basically agrees with his pastor. He might not have used the same words or gestures, but he believes in the message. I would only ask Barack if he feels like a hypocrite by embracing a church that sure does not preach unity. The Barack that stands before us with his eloquent words of hope and change would be in stark contrast to any person sitting in those pews listening to the rantings of a pastor the is keeping hatred alive. Maybe Barack can''t really answer what in the world was he thinking.

[tbweb]

GOP Sees Rev. Wright As Pathway To Victory

Of course the GOP does, he''s their new Willie Horton!

[andrew1003-2009]

Soooo...

It ain''t about a unilateral war based on lies that cost over 100,000 lives and $2,000,000,000,000 with no end..

It ain''t about the largest government and budget deficit in history...

It ain''t about $4.00 per gallon gas and Exxon annual profits of $40,000,000,000....

It ain''t about the unconstitutional loss of large chuncks of our personal freedoms..

It aint about the loss of jobs and homes...

It ain''t about not having healthcare..

IT"S ABOUT A GD HOME VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a bunch of sorry maggots!!!

[sueann702]

How did we lose some of our freedoms in the Constitution? Terrorists? nope. Foreign country? Nope.
Bush? yes.
The Bush Legacy,
1. Failure with Hurricane Katrina
2. Ruined our economy-we''''re near a recession
4. Murdered 4000 Americans
5. Maimed 30,000 Americans
6. Made Iran stronger with Shia Government Iraq
7. Lied about Iraq''''s ties to Al Qaida and WMD
8. Increased our debt with China
9. Tax breaks for the very rich
10. Took away some of our liberties from the Constitution in the name of security from 1 attack
11. Al Qaida and the Taliban are still a threat
12. Trillions on a war in Iraq our great, great grand children will have to pay for
13. Had liberal layers removed by Alberto Gonzales
14. Supports Real ID Act, which would give big brother more control over us
15. Middle Class ruined with jobs going overseas
16. 300 percent increase in gas prices

A vote for McCain is a vote for Bush

[sueann702]

Today when Vice President Chaney was told that 63% of Americans said they did no think the Iraq war was worth it he said "so".
Posted by SHURCH4TRUTH at 10:55 PM : Mar 19, 2008

Translation: Who is the people to us? We do whatever we want to do like we did with the constitution. we run this country, not the people

[sueann702]

bhenson1966

How did we lose some of our freedoms in the Constitution? Terrorists? nope. Foreign country? Nope.
Bush? yes.
The Bush Legacy,
1. Failure with Hurricane Katrina
2. Ruined our economy-we''re near a recession
4. Murdered 4000 Americans
5. Maimed 30,000 Americans
6. Made Iran stronger with Shia Government Iraq
7. Lied about Iraq''s ties to Al Qaida and WMD
8. Increased our debt with China
9. Tax breaks for the very rich
10. Took away some of our liberties from the Constitution in the name of security from 1 attack
11. Al Qaida and the Taliban are still a threat
12. Trillions on a war in Iraq our great, great grand children will have to pay for
13. Had liberal layers removed by Alberto Gonzales
14. Supports Real ID Act, which would give big brother more control over us
15. Middle Class ruined with jobs going overseas

A vote for McCain is a vote for Bush

[destardi]

Let me put it this way...on polling a group of people, 35% had not seen the Wright videos; of the rest of the people who HAD seen the videos, they stopped supporting Obama.

The republicans are DEAD ON...They''re masters at swiftboating.

Obama''s mud.

[bhenson1966]

Republican strategists are sorely misguided. I am a loyal evangelical republican. But the ''democRAT'' style politics of 2004 will NEVER win this 2008 election. After the most historic speech on race relations that our nation has heard in the past 50 years, Obama will transcend petty, outdated attack ads. He may become the first Democratic presidental candidate that I''ve voted for since I voted for Jimmy Carter in my third grade elementary class!

[adastra8]

Charming as all the Republican mustache-twirling is, I think that they''re grasping at straws with PastorGate. Kerry never did address Swiftboating directly; never did address the negative side of the peace movement of which he was a part with the candor with which he excused his military service. Obama has listened to his critics and accepted their criticism, opening the way for his critics to listen in turn to his contention that both he and Rev. Wright are more complicated people than a YouTube clip can express. He is banking his candidacy on his faith that the American people can see shades of gray; for all of our sakes (and regardless of the short-term outcome), I hope that he''s right.