Obama Wins in Guam - Oprah’s Opinion on Rev. Wright
Obama Wins in Guam, Oprah’s Opinion on Rev. Wright — by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at Care2 Election Blog)
Barack had a tough week, but ended it with a win in Guam (by only seven votes). Tuesday will be the real test of whether or not the Obama campaign will be able to weather the Reverend Wright storm. What do you think? Here are some thoughts from other bloggers, and Oprah…
From Democrats Now…
The primaries in Indiana and North Carolina will probably not put the Wright/Obama story to sleep – not so long as there are Clintons and Republicans stirring up trouble – but it should advance the narrative and maybe even alter it. The broad outlines of the next stage are clear. It is very unlikely that African American voters will desert Obama for his repudiation of his pastor; though there is reason to think they should. With the Wright affair still percolating, it remains to be seen how much worse or better Obama does with white working class ethnic (i.e. Catholic) voters. Most likely, the data generated in these next primaries will be equivocal, and therefore susceptible to a variety of spins. Moreover, it is unlikely that these primaries will change much in the larger Obama v. Clinton story.
Obama’s Church Unnerved Oprah…
Fiery sermons didn’t drive Barack Obama away from his church, but they did unnerve one other prominent parishioner — media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
According to Newsweek, Winfrey stopped attending Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ in the 1990s in part because she wanted to distance herself from the incendiary views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
“She’s always been aware that her audience is very mainstream, and doing anything to offend them just wouldn’t be smart,” one anymous source tells the magazine. “She’s been around black churches all her life, so Rev. Wright’s anger-filled message didn’t surprise her. But it just wasn’t what she was looking for in a church.”
This is from a post by Penny Ronning on A Tough Week For Barack Obama…
For Barack, I think this very public lesson on what he has allowed to be filtered out of his own personal ability to see a man’s true nature — a man so close to him he considered him a part of his family — is one of the greatest lesson this future world leader could ever learn.
America and the world has had 8 years of bad judgment and hidden agendas come forth from the current administration.
With Barack’s charisma, passionate speaking ability, and four - eight more years of high level government experience, I believe he will be the candidate of choice.
I believe with four - eight more years of high level government experience, Barack will be a leader of tremendous quality and perhaps even one of the greatest leaders in history.
But
I don’t believe he holds the right qualities that we need in a leader RIGHT NOW. I believe he holds many fantastic qualities that with time and patience will be the exact qualities needed to make the greatest impact he can as a world leader.
We journey through our school system one grade at a time for a reason. With each year, we learn lessons that enable us to understand the next year’s lessons.
I know Barack engages hope.
And I applaud that quality within him. I admire that quality within him.
I know Barack connects to people.
Another quality I applaud and admire.
But
I want for him more than hope and the ability to connect.
I want for him to be the absolute best leader he can be.
And
I don’t think he’s there yet.
I think he’s made a grand start, but I also think he’s jumped out of the gate and the horn hasn’t gone off yet.
I think Barack Obama will run his best race when he’s run it with the wisdom of patience on his side.
I think he will be the best world leader he can be when he achieves a balance of experience with the ability to connect.
And I think the world will be better for it.
Obama, Clinton Turn To News Shows To Woo Superdelegates
Two presidential candidates, two celebrity interviewers, two agendas, one audience: the undecided superdelegates likely to select the Democratic nominee.
Just two days before key primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, the peculiar ritual of the Sunday news show took on high drama as Obama and Clinton each made hour-long solo appearances — Obama on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and Clinton on ABC’s “This Week.” While the shows are seen by relatively few voters, they hold considerable sway among opinion leaders.
For Obama, the grilling by host Tim Russert offered an opportunity to put the uproar surrounding his former pastor behind him. For Clinton, the town hall-style appearance hosted by her husband’s one-time protegee George Stephanopoulos gave her the chance to burnish her populist message and persuade skeptical voters to like and trust her.
Coming off the toughest stretch in the primary campaign so far, Obama, the front-runner, had more to prove.
What do you think? Can the Obama campaign recover from this?
Comment from Publius II
Time: May 4, 2008, 11:52 pm
“OBAMA EXPOSED”
by Publius II
There once was a man named Obama
His life began with drama
An African Muslim father
And an eccentric white mama
Obama’s white grandparents
They gave him a charmed life
Raised on the beaches of Hawaii
Far from ghetto strife
He went to private schools
Fourteen thousand dollars a year
Working-class white folks
They were nowhere near
He attended Columbia
Then Harvard Law
A very soft and liberal upbringing
Something Americans eventually saw
He then went to Chicago
Nation of Islam, Farrakhan, Black Panthers and Jackson
The only friends he made
All from the extreme left-wing faction
He joined a radical church
His Pastor downright insane
Blacks and whites, he said
Think with different parts of their brain
His church praised a man named Cone
With hateful opinions he was filled
He said white people were “the devil”
And Gods who love whites must be killed
Obama first ran for State Senate
With permission from Chicago’s Marxist King
A domestic terrorist named Ayers
Obama kissed his ring
When he was a mere State Legislator
He gave a speech against the War
As such, he wasn’t responsible for voting
A typical political whore
He wrote a book called “Dreams From My Father”
From start to finish a racist rant
After people finally read it
They later said: “Obama, no we can’t”
He wrote how he rejected his mother’s race
And that Malcolm X was a hero
People had a clear warning
Obama was a dangerous zero
He was then elected to the U.S. Senate
Obama’s ego grew very bold
He barely served a year
I will run for President was the story he told
He said he’d end the War
But in Congress his party already had control
He had about as much success
As when he tried to bowl
He spent millions to stage rallies
The crowds would yell and cheer
But then it all fizzled after he said
Typical white folks cling to religion, guns and beer
His wife said America was mean
She was never really proud
Her Black Separatist thesis at Princeton
Became a campaign cloud
People said he was a Muslim
His supporters scoffed and jeered
Then his Black Liberation Church was exposed
And Obama’s ugly head was reared
He tried to recover in a speech on race
The radical left-wing media offered raves
But he said white folks had an “untrained ear”
And abolitionists in Pennsylvania turned over in their graves
He claimed to be a uniter
He would bring people together all at once
But after his speech in Philadelphia
He proved to be a demographic dunce
He tried once more to persuade whites
But his bowling was a mess
He rolled a 37
Like a 5-year-old girl in a dress
He then played basketball
He drove the ball to the rack
But when all was said and done
He looked like an old man having a heart attack
He said damn those white voters
Their Mutual Funds I will tax
I’ll double the capital gains rate
And deliver yet another smack
He wouldn’t cover his heart
As the National Anthem played
It’s a meaningless gesture he said
But Americans felt betrayed
He wouldn’t wear a flag pin
It was against his One World view
It doesn’t matter he said
And the American people stewed
He first called terrorist Ayers his friend
Then said this man he didn’t really know
More deceit and cover-ups
Obama’s lies began to grow
Farrakhan, Jackson and Sharpton
Three of Obama’s greatest fans
He tried hiding them in the closet
So not to further offend the white man
Then came his anti-American Pastor
Obama’s mentor for 20 years
He preened, shucked and jived
White people rose up and sneered
He opposed cutting the gas tax
He said it wasn’t a winner
$40 is all it would save, he said
A weekly budget for a working family’s dinner
NBC and the New York Times
They tried each day to save Obama’s campaign
But real Americans said “FU”
And Obama spiraled down the drain
His name was Barrack Hussein Obama
Running for a second Jimmy Carter term
Weak on National Security
A little, pacifist worm
The radical left-wing Democrats
A Presidential race lost once again
Is it really a surprise
They’ve lost 7 of the last 10?