Dang Mata, I gotta hand it to you; YOU CALLED IT!
At first BHO plays nice with Jeremiah Wright, and Wright gets his time in the lime-light, and even bad publicity is good for sales of his upcoming book.
Now, as per your prediction, BHO is bringing down his “outrage” at the most recent words of Jeremiah Wright. As expected the MSM is now heralding BHO’s vision; trumpeting that this is the true BHO. Strange, but BHO never came to this epiphany during all his time in the pews at Jeremiah Wright’s feet. But, of course, such critical thinking is sadly lacking in the MSM coverage. I just hope McCain’s advisors were one step ahead of this like you were Mata; clearly Hillary’s people didn’t see the broadside coming just before the final primaries.

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[...] made the case yesterday that Wrights behavior may be some backroom shananigans to let Obama save face: I’m [...]

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The public divorce” begins:

“I have been a member of Trinity Church since 1992. I have known Rev. Wright for almost 20 years,” he said at a Winston-Salem, North Carolina press conference Tuesday. “The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago.”

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“What particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing,” said Obama, who added that Wright had shown “little regard for me” and seemed more concerned with “taking center stage.”

“It was antithetical to our campaign, it was antithetical to what we’re about,” he said. “I cannot prevent him from making these remarks” but “when I say I find these comments appalling I mean it. It contradicts what I’m about and who I am… it is completely opposed to what I stand for and where I want to take this country.”

In a break with previous comments, Obama focused his criticism on Wright the man, and not simply his remarks. “I gave him the benefit of the doubt before my speech in Philadelphia” where he addressed the subject of race. But “what we saw yesterday from Rev. Wright was a resurfacing and I believe an exploitation of these old divisions.”

Just as I suspected, this is a campaign ploy to remove Wright as the albatross around BHO’s neck once and for all… and cleverly timed and choreographed to occur *before* the last state primaries.

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I saw the live comments INRE Veep status, Suek. That was a tongue-in-cheek joke. He’s not really soliciting the VP job. But also, don’t think he’d turn it down if offered.

But of course, he knows it would never be offered to him. Talk about BHO going down in flames…

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They’re socialists. They model on the Saul Alinsky dream. No revolutionaries, no revolution. Change = revolution. They intend to inflame a racial war.

Another unbelievable statement: “I told Barack that if he was elected CEO, the next day I’d attack him – because he would then be part of the government that oppresses us”…but then says that he’d be willing to be the VP. So all of a sudden, he’s VP and it’s _not_ an oppressive government? What does that tell you?

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Elroy and ChrisG, I certainly agree that if the race appears stolen from BHO, and given to HRC via supers, the DNC base and media will be aboard that Soul Train enforce. However Wright’s actions are counterintuitive for placing Obama in that ultimate “victim” status, and achieving that outrage.

To garner the sympathy for the Soul Train schedule, BHO must definitively win the popular vote and lose the nomination from supers. Note Wright is doing this before these final state primaries. This can only throw more popular votes to HRC, narrowing the gap between the two.

If it’s close percentage spread in popular votes, the DNC can make a case for HRC getting the supers (based on big electorate states) and the race less controversial as “stolen”. Wind out of their sails, don’t you think? (not that they wouldn’t make a stink anyway… but harder to get the media sympathy)

If he started this talking head circuit in June – *after* BHO had the popular win – I might be more inclined to agree he was trying to sabatoge Obama.

On the flip side, I’m not so sure that the black rights leadership lose power with BHO as POTUS. He’s very affirmative action – one of their pet causes. And if a POTUS/BHO has a period of DNC holding all branches of power, they can accomplish much for their agenda that would be nigh on impossible to reverse. Leaders, to keep their base enthused, must occasionally have success.

So I think I must agree to disagree here. I believe Wright has more to gain from a BHO victory. Heard one black commentator say she thought it was “anger” at BHO’s brushoff. Too simple. Wright said himself that he understood BHO was the consummate politician by distancing himself for electability.

But ya know? Time will unravel this mystery. However I’m sure there is more going on in the back rooms here than meets the eye.

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Elroy,

You have a point. There are groups that already want to re-ignite the racial fires of 1968. Victimhood is a profitable industry and success means their lies fall apart and the racial “leaders” (why a ‘race’ needs ‘leaders’ is another related issue) find themselves obsolete and out of all important power. And that is what it really is about: POWER. No “victimhood”, no power for the “leaders”.

Obama is tied at the hip to “anarchists”, racists, and terror groups. All of which are jumping at the chance for “revolution” as their to absolute power.

From repeated comments made by these groups and their actions, I really do expect bombs to go off….. real ones.

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MataHarley said:
Something’s bothering me about this… Wright’s going to be demanding more and more face time for his book. And he’s not going to want to hurt Obama.

Unless Wright and others do not want Obama to win. Think about it. If somehow the supers move to Hillary, they can play the victim card for the next 20 years. And the liberal media will jump on board that Soul Train.
Look for more bombs to be dropped as the Rev goes on his book tour.
Pass the popcorn!!

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Something’s bothering me about this… Wright’s going to be demanding more and more face time for his book. And he’s not going to want to hurt Obama.

Obama’s going to want his “mentor” to take advantage of this windfall exposure to promote his book. Obama may be socialist in policy, but he’s *very* capitalistic in his personal realm.

And neither Wright nor Obama are this stupid to sabatoge both their paths..

I’m wondering if Wright is set to become a future tool for Obama to formally “eject” in the near future (as a public thing anyway). Who knows, it could already be arranged as campaign strategy/Act II. The back room workings of campaign handlers may be on to something, and this could be a big part of it. Obama “the victim” of Wright. Wright, “the nefarious” gets wealthy.

Hummmm…

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So, if I were to distill these comments down; Wright is pretty much saying that BHO distancing himself from the Trinity sermons is pretty much an act of political expediency, trying to dodge all the backlash that was coming his way.
That would make the flipside that Wright is basically assuring the radicals and racists in the audience that they don’t need to worry, that deep down BHO actually believes all the bile that Wright has been spewing; that he’s just putting on a show to fool the voting public.
Wow, how very reassuring…
By all means, I hope that Wright keeps on mouthing off; barring some serious positive coverage by the MSM (which is well within the realm of possibility I suppose), Hillary should be able to knock-off BHO before we have to worry about him in the General Election.

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