"Obama tagged with comments of another cleric; Priest mocked Clinton display of emotions" by Scott Helman, Globe Staff | May 31, 2008
Oh, so now it is a CLERIC!!
Which, in the Amurkn mind (because of the Zionist brainwashing) means MUSLIM!!!
Why didn't they just say priest, readers? I think you know why!!
Just as he tries to begin uniting a fractured Democratic Party, Senator Barack Obama is suffering from another damaging outburst from the pulpit of his longtime church, where outspoken Chicago priest Michael L. Pfleger said in a guest sermon last Sunday that Senator Hillary Clinton was a "white" and "entitled" politician staggered to see "a black man stealing my show."
In his stinging critique of Clinton's candidacy, Pfleger, a white pastor of the largely black parish St. Sabina and a fixture in the city's religious and political life, also mocked her emotional display before the Jan. 8 New Hampshire primary.
How come the late-night talk show hosts don't come in for the same criticism?
When Saturday Night Live does it, it's funny!!!
Pfleger, at Trinity United Church of Christ, where Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., delivered the sharp criticisms of the US government that caused Obama major headaches this spring:
"When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don't believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought, 'This is mine. I'm Bill's wife, I'm white and this is mine. I just gotta get up and step into the plate.' And then out of nowhere came, 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama.' And she said, 'Oh, damn, where did you come from? I'm white. I'm entitled. There's a black man stealing my show.' "
Pfleger, pretending to wipe away tears as some congregants stood and applauded:
"She wasn't the only one crying. There was a whole lot of white people crying."
How come their ministers are always more entertaining than ours?
Obama, who was not in the pews for the sermon, immediately repudiated the comments Thursday after a YouTube video surfaced.
The uproar comes at a particularly bad time for the Illinois senator, who is assiduously trying to mollify Clinton's supporters - and close racial and gender rifts in the party - as he anticipates securing the Democratic nomination, as early as next week. Many Clinton backers are already angry at Obama and the party, in part because of the disrespect they believe the media and her rival's surrogates have shown the New York senator and former first lady.
Wah, wah, wah!!!
Pfleger's outspokenness and protests, particularly on guns and race, has often drawn attention - and at times arrests - in Chicago and beyond. He has been a political supporter, contributor, and, at times, a spiritual adviser to Obama. Obama, as a state senator, reportedly steered at least $225,000 in grant money to Pfleger's parish. Pfleger has been a staunch defender of Wright and controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan....
Ha-ha-ha!!!
Look at the Zionist MSM trying to make Pfleger into a tar baby!!!!
Ha-ha-ha!!!
What about Clinton's Pastor?
Or Bill's meeting with Rev. Wright, MSM?
Notice how quickly the Hagee flap went away, too, readers?
Yeah, but the MSM isn't for Clinton and McCain or anything.
Also see: Up Obama's Colon
Yesterday, Clinton's campaign and her supporters, while offering a more muted response than they have for past dust-ups, still faulted Obama for not going far enough.
US Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio said it was puzzling that in this environment an Obama supporter would choose his words so poorly:
"What I think that Clinton supporters would have wanted was for Barack Obama to say not only that he distanced himself from the comments, but that's not how he views Senator Clinton. I would have hoped to have him more . . . affirmative in terms of the kind of woman that she is and the kind of what that she's done. It seems to me that the people who have some connection to him would be smarter than that and they wouldn't reopen old wounds."
Jones disappoints me in that she is a BLACK woman.
Of course, feminists scream that this is evidence of sexism -- when nothing could be further from the truth.
This is about CLINTON'S CHARACTER!!!!
Howard Wolfson, Clinton's communications director, told reporters on a conference call yesterday:
"[Pfleger's remarks were] despicable. We are all attempting to bring the party together and when you have that kind of divisive and hateful language [it is detrimental to that goal]. It's important, I think, to the spirit of unity we are all trying to create, for Senator Obama to condemn them specifically."
He couldn't have said that with a straight face, right?
Of course, the Clinton's aren't trying to take advantage of the remarks -- or so the MSM told me!!
Pfffffttt!!!!
But in a sign that the rancorous Democratic primary was nearing its end, Clinton backers stressed that Obama should not be held responsible for something a supporter says.
Kathy Sullivan, former chairwoman of the Democratic Party of New Hampshire:
"You can't blame Senator Obama for the statements of the minister at the church."
At least there are some good DemocraPs out here.
Oh, by the way, readers, I'm WHITE!!!!
Now the old man:
"McCain takes hit from Obama on Iraq progress; GOP candidate's 'surge' numbers appear off mark" by Scott Helman, Globe Staff | May 31, 2008
With Iraq now back at the center of the presidential race, John McCain and his campaign struggled yesterday to explain a questionable claim the presumptive Republican nominee made about proof of military progress in the country.
When did Iraq become the center of debate in the MSM? I must have missed it.
Campaigning in Wisconsin on Thursday, McCain said that the so-called troop surge President Bush initiated last year was working, asserting as evidence that the United States had fewer troops in Iraq than it did before the surge began.
Yeah, except those AREN'T the "FACTS" -- according to none other than our OWN MILITARY!
McCain: "We have drawn down to presurge levels."
But according to Pentagon figures, McCain, who regularly argues that his superior knowledge and judgment about the Iraq war makes him more fit than Democratic front-runner Barack Obama to be president, is wrong.
Or he's LYING!!!!
The US currently has more than 150,000 troops in the country; prior to the surge, there were about 130,000. Even after planned withdrawals over the next two months, the Pentagon has said it expects to have 140,000 American troops there at the end of July.
Senator John F. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, a leading surrogate for Obama, casting McCain's remark as the latest in a series of misstatements about Iraq that the Arizona senator has made, told reporters yesterday:
"John McCain is out of step with history and facts."
Kerry also raised McCain's trip to a Baghdad market last year, during which McCain cited security gains in the city despite being protected by a heavy US troop presence and wearing body armor, and McCain's mistake two months ago in saying that Iran, a largely Shi'ite country, was training Al Qaeda, the Sunni terrorist network.
Kerry: "[It is impossible to argue that you are an expert on Iraq], if you don't know the number of troops, if you don't know who's training whom, if you don't know what's safe."
McCain and his campaign offered a series of responses and explanations yesterday.
McCain's aides initially issued a blistering statement responding to the criticism from Kerry and the Obama campaign:
"What informed people understand, John McCain included, is that American troops are not even close to surge levels."
Randy Scheunemann, McCain's senior policy adviser, and McCain's fellow GOP senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl, told reporters on a conference call that the dispute was purely about "semantics" and "verb tenses," and that even if McCain's assertion about troop levels was not accurate to the letter, it made little difference, because the number of American troops in Iraq would, thanks to the success of the surge, soon be below the presurge level.
Scheunemann, likening McCain's comment to Obama's recent misstatement about having visited "57 states" during the primary campaign:
"The difference is so minuscule that I'm not sure it rises to the level of nitpicking."
Nitpicking?
Getting the number of states wrong hardly compares to a situation where PEOPLE ARE GETTING KILLED!!!
All because of shit lies!!!
Nitpicking?
Kyl: "Take the worst possibility here, which is that Senator McCain misspoke, and that because of the specific words used, what he said was not entirely accurate. So what? What does that amount to? The real question is what does everyone know about John McCain's knowledge about the facts on the ground, and who has been more correct about what it takes to win?"
So what? SO WHAT?
Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrgghhhhhhh!!!!!
Yeah, so what if the government lies -- like Kyl lies to his constituents (I'll never forget the immigration bill, buddy)!!
McCain, at a news conference later in the afternoon, stood by his initial comments when asked if he misspoke, asserting that some troops involved in the surge had already come home and the rest would be home by July:
"Of course not."
McCain sought to shift the subject to what he said was the more important issue of whether the surge had been successful in reducing violence:
"I know enough about the military and I know enough about history. This is about judgment and leadership and clearly Senator Obama was wrong."
Except, he's not!
Obama, in prepared remarks, told a rally in Montana yesterday:
"[He is wrong about the troop levels, and] anyone running for commander in chief should know better. I don't think tens of thousands of American troops amounts to nitpicking. Tell that to the young men and women who are serving bravely and brilliantly under our flag. Tell that to the families who have seen their loved ones fight tour after tour after tour of duty in a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged. It's time for a debate that's based on the truth, and I can't think of anything more important than how many Americans are in harm's way."
Yeah, except that is just more political phooleys!!!
I'm split on what to do in November, but I don't expect any changes in policy, despite the election talk. Pentagon already issuing rotation orders for 2010.
Obama, like many leading Democrats, opposed the troop surge and has promised to bring combat troops home from Iraq starting from his first days in office.
McCain came under additional criticism yesterday for saying Thursday that Basra, Mosul, and Sadr City, a Shi'ite enclave of Baghdad, were "quiet" - the same day three suicide bombings struck Mosul, a northern Iraqi city. McCain did acknowledge, however, that "it's long, and it's hard, and it's tough, and there will be setbacks."
Did he add he's getting senile?
Please see: Occupation Iraq: Crazy McCain and the Failure of the Surge
And after criticism from Obama supporters, he also conceded it was inappropriate to use in a fund-raising solicitation a photo of him and General David Petraeus, who commands American forces in Iraq and was an architect of the surge.
McCain told reporters in Milwaukee: "It won't happen again."
Oh, well, that doesn't get the press and headlines that Obama's pastors get, does it? Incredible!!!
Yeah, but the MSM is biased against McCain!!
The level of ludicrousness is becoming overwhelming when it comes to the MSM coverage and "politics!!!"
As for the past, the MSM covers-up McCain's role in the Keating Five, his love for lobbyists, and ignores his anger, his racism, etc, etc, while still promoting the "Straight Talk Express" -- even as McCain backtracks on his "maverick" image!
So Obama gets the sledgehammer over the head, and McCain gets a love tap.
AmeriKa's MSM, all right!!!!
