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The most interesting bit, in my opinion, is that both the Sun-Times and the Tribune -- the two papers who have been hounding this story the hardest -- have published columns stating that they're pretty confident that there's nothing more to be had from the story.

My reasoning for why it "matters" is because the two Chicago dailies are responsible for probably 85% of the Rezko media investigation & stories. Their response to the interview helps set the tone for the Rezko debate and partially controls how much coverage the story gets at all.

Exhibit A: The Tribune doesn't have a Rezko story on the front of its site for the first time in 3+ weeks. The Sun-Times has a short piece on the Rezko trial but it doesn't mention Obama for once. Previously, they always threw in a bit about how Obama knew him even if it didn't relate to the story.

I'm not going to pull a Gbaji and say that "this is huge" but I do think it's relevant.

Obama should start telling people that he's a Muslim.

Hussein means "Handsome One". I think it's appropriate. Grrowl.

Nexa

Yup. Somewhat surprised that these papers even bothered with the Rezco thing when the "big story" breaking make it pretty irrelevant.


The wheels on the Obama bus basically fell off this weekend...

Yeah. Because a candidate is exactly as responsible for some random person who endorses him as he is for the guy who's been his pastor for the last 20 years and has been identified by the candidate as his "spiritual adviser".





I always love the classic liberal "Vote for me because horrible things are happening!!!" approach... Gives me warm fuzzies all over.


How bad must your candidate be that you're pinning your hopes of victory on things being so bad that they'll have to vote for him without looking too closely?

Um... Sure Smash.

For the people Obama needs to win over in order to have a chance in the general election, it's the pastor thing that's going to matter. Trust me. No one even knows what the hell you're talking about with regard to McCain. Everyone has heard Reverend Writes recorded diatribe against America and Obamas incredibly weak response(s).

Seriously. Who in his staff thought: "Just say he's stepping down and it'll all go away" was a good strategy for this? It's not like Write has been just about to step down for the last 20 years while Obama has attended and been "active" in his church.

Incredible fail. I actually expected a much better response from Obama. Maybe a bit of that "he's a superman!" was rubbing off on me or something. But he sounded just like every other politician responding lamely to a scandalous situation on this. Worse, since there's really no way to back out of it. Doubly worse when combined with his Wifes multiple statements past and present that seem to echo Write's position on America...

This is a "wheels falling off the bus" moment for the Obama campaign. Anyone who hasn't had their head buried in magic Obama sand for the last year knows it. It's possible those wheels could be put back on, but not with what we've seen from Obama over the last few days on this issue. And not if Obama and his "fans" don't realize that this really is a big deal to the people they need to win over. As long as they pretend they can just gloss it over and the faithful will continue to flock to him, this will get worse. Much much worse...



No. It's classic because you Liberals are like the broken clock of the political world. You say the same thing constantly, and kinda hope that conditions match what you say.

How many years has the "economy been in the dumpster" Smash? Now maybe it will go into recession coming up here soon. Who knows? But you've been wrong for the last 7 years straight that you kept predicting recession. What're the odds you'll be right this time?

So yeah. I find it amusing, in a "boy who cried wolf" kind of way...

Is the world so "black and white" to you that anyone who might be a offended by a preacher saying that instead of "God bless America", it should be "God damn America", must be "flag waving fake patriots afraid of black people"?


Some of us are simply offended by the language and concerned that a politician would choose to attend a church like that for 20 years and then pretend that he didn't know what his preacher was saying. Yeah. Right...

Er? Is that seriously the best you can do?

I've been saying for months now that Obama is more "far left liberal" then most people in the middle and the right know. This is likely to be one of many "clue ins" that will educate people on this. I expect more to follow. This guy apparently has no end to radical skeletons in his closet. Now that the media has stopped looking at him with fan-tinted glasses, he's going to get mauled I suspect.

Failing to respond to this adequately will absolutely kill Obama's chances in the general election. But hey! You guys keep drinking the koolaide if you want.

Pot. Kettle?

At least my response made sense Joph. It was clever *and* matched up with what I was accusing the Obama apologists of doing.

His? Not so much. Oh wow! He's so clever. He quoted a sentence where I used the words "some of us" and "simply" and brilliantly responded by twisting them around to form a smart retort that had absolutely nothing to do with anything. But hey! He called us "simpletons", and that's good enough, isn't it?


How low does the asylum bar for this sort of thing go? Do we resort to "You're wrong times infinity!" next?

At least you won't be accused of originality I dunno. Is that lower than resorting to hackneyed memes?

No, you're not. Stop lying. You're just glad you found an opportunity to throw some mud on Obama. That's all this is about.

So, let me get this right. The media took a couple of quotes, out of context, from thousands of sermons of a black pastor concerned about social problems and poverty, and just because he said "God damn America" for failing to address the extreme levels of poverty that can be found there, you guys throw a hissy fit?

Is that really all you've got to whine about?

Not only that, but how does that show that Obama is "very far-left"? Do you even know what "far-left" means?

Seriously, you guys are a bit crazy. If a Church of England pastor, where Gordon Brown had been, had said "Shame on England" for failing to address extreme levels of poverty, no one would've bat an eyelid. Or, actually, only self-righteous nationlists skinheads would've made a fuss.

But, I guess, there are some positives. If that's all you guys got on Obama, then really, we don't have much to worry about.