Over the past 48 hours Hillary Clinton has been in the hot seat. Her tale of heroics in Bosnia was shown to be a lie. She has simply dismissed it by saying she misspoke,but today in her effort to change the conversation she started talking about Rev. Wright again. Rev. Wright’s statements are and were indefensible, but the media have taken the tapes off the endless loop. Hillary’s plan is to re-ignite the controversy and take the attention off her major gaffe. This is not the first time she has used the Bosnia story, but this time she took it to a new level. The Rev. Wright controversy is a divisive issue and Hillary knows this polarization could possibly help her in Pennsylvania. She will do anything and say anything to get the nomination, and if racial division is the road to victory that is the road she is willing to take. During the height of the Wright issue she and her team were silent. When asked about Sen. Obama’s speech she simply replied it was a good speech, but she chooses now to make her statement. Her first remarks about Rev. Wright were made in response to a question, but when she repeated it at the press conference she was making a statement that the Wright issue is fair game and she plans on using it. Sometimes it is hard to believe that she and Obama are members of the same party.
They’re not in the same party; Obama is a Democrat and Clinton is Clintonocrat. It’s a part of two.
Comment by jonolan — March 25, 2008 @ 11:22 pm
Hillary Clinton is truly a nasty piece of work. Even if one does not consider the supposedly inflammatory nature of the Wright sermons, she took an opportunity to promote healing or at least thought provoking discussion, and instead parroted a line that even the conservative nominee and the man he defeated has abandoned.
I have no doubt Hillary would have left her church and the place that introduced her to Jesus because it is abundantly clear that there is no belief, no ethic, no moral, or important relationship she would not gladly sacrifice in order to further her own naked ambition. However, she should get that choice. These are the words of her pastor in the white house for 8 years Dean J Snyder the Senior Minister of the Foundry United Methodist church. The Clintons church while they were in the white house.
A STATEMENT CONCERNING THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader
whom I have heard speak a number of times. He has served for
decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society.
He has been a vocal critic of the racism, sexism and homophobia
which still tarnish the American dream. To evaluate his dynamic
ministry on the basis of two or three sound bites does a grave
injustice to Dr. Wright, the members of his congregation, and the
African-American church which has been the spiritual refuge of a
people that has suffered from discrimination, disadvantage, and
violence. Dr. Wright, a member of an integrated denomination, has
been an agent of racial reconciliation while proclaiming perceptions
and truths uncomfortable for some white people to hear. Those of us
who are white Americans would do well to listen carefully to Dr.
Wright rather than to use a few of his quotes to polarize. This is a
critical time in America’s history as we seek to repent of our racism.
No matter which candidates prevail, let us use this time to listen again
to one another and not to distort one another’s truth.
Over 2 million Americans have seen the full context of the Rev. Wright’s sermon on YouTube. So, when Hillary says it’s out there for people to make up their minds I hope they truly do.
Hillary is a political succubus. She will suck the energy and will from this party until we are broken and defeated.
We have to defeat this person.
Comment by Albert Johnson Jr — March 26, 2008 @ 1:38 am