Schedule more interviews! More press conferences!

[Christians4LessGvt]

REVEREND WRIGHT
PLEASE KEEP TALKING!

[Christians4LessGvt]

Enthusiastic Hillary Supporter
ORGANIZED Rev. Wright at Press Club...
OMG Hillary is brilliant!





Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama or a press trick?
Tuesday, April 29th 2008, 4:00 AM


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The Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club event Monday, which was organized by Reynolds.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn't have done more damage to Barack Obama's campaign if he had tried. And you have to wonder if that's just what one friend of Wright wanted.

Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds.

A former editorial board member at USA Today, she runs something called Reynolds News Services and teaches ministry at the Howard University School of Divinity. (She is an ordained minister).

It also turns out that Reynolds - introduced Monday as a member of the National Press Club "who organized" the event - is an enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter.

On a blog linked to her Web site- www.reynoldsnews.com- Reynolds said in a February post: "My vote for Hillary in the Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you" to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton's presidency.

The same post criticized Obama's "Audacity of Hope" theme: "Hope by definition is not based on facts," wrote Reynolds. It is an emotional expectation. Things hoped for may or may not come. But help based on experience trumps hope every time."

In another blog entry, Reynolds gives an ever-sharper critique of Obama: "It is a sad testimony that to protect his credentials as a unifier above the fray, the senator is fueling the media characterization that Rev. Dr. Wright is some retiring old uncle in the church basement."

I don't know if Reynolds' eagerness to help Wright stage a disastrous news conference with the national media was a way of trying to help Clinton - my queries to Reynolds by phone and e-mail weren't returned yesterday - but it's safe to say she didn't see any conflict between promoting Wright and supporting Clinton.

It's hard to exaggerate how bad the actual news conference was. Wright, steeped in an honorable, fiery tradition of Bible-based social criticism, cheapened his arguments and his movement by mugging for the cameras, rolling his eyes, heaping scorn on his critics and acting as if nobody in the room was learned enough to ask him a question.

Wright has, unquestionably, been caricatured and vilified unfairly. The feeding programs, prison outreach and other social services he has built over more than 30 years are commendable, and his reading of the Judeo-Christian tradition as an epic story of people trying to escape slavery is far more right than wrong - and not something to be caricatured or compressed into a 10-second sound bite.

But Wright should have known - and his friend and ally Reynolds, a media professional, surely knew - that bickering with the press can only harm Wright and, by extension, Obama.

I hope that wasn't their goal.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/louis/index.html

[Xavier_Onassis]

Wright was a veteran and served his country. Cheney actively AVOIDED this, and Juniorbush hid out in a hangar filled with obsolete aircraft.

Stop picking on Obama, You are beginning to resemble a racist. WE need to check your laundry for eyeholes in the sheets.

[Christians4LessGvt]

Wright was a veteran and served his country.

So?
So did Tim McVeigh and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Because someone served in the military doesn't give them a pass 40 years later.
What does military service several decades ago have to do with his Wright's views in 2008?
Get real, that is such a lame argument, but not unexpected from another member of the
Rev Wright Blame America club.

But XO keep thinking that stating Rev Wright is a veteran "will make everything ok",
like I said I hope Obama reverses himself and Rev Wright & Obama become chummy again.
Like you say "the man is a veteran" so Obama should embrace him once again.

Stop picking on Obama.

Oh yeah we mustn't "pick on" a Presidential Candidate.
"Pick on" a presidential candidate?
OH MY I've NEVER HEARD OF SUCH!
HOW DARE WE?
Lets all clap and scream like sheep at the "Rock Star Candidate Trojan Horse"
XO the one that basically equates VP Cheney to Hitler says "Stop Picking on Obama". 

You are beginning to resemble a racist.

XO please explain what is racist about wanting Wright's views heard?
Please connect the dots to your desperate attempt to scream racism?

XO you are beginning to resemble a racist by pretending the same issues
addressed to all Presidential candidates can't be addressed towards an
African American candidate and they should get "special treatment".
As if McCain had attended a church for 20 years with a preacher screaming
racially divisive things and nutty stuff like  "the gvt created HIV" it wouldn't be an issue?
Yeah sure! But "it's not fair" about Obama, "it's racism", wha wha wha, cry me a river.

Obama keeps distancing himself from the racially divisive Wright, is Obama a racist too?

WE need to check your laundry for eyeholes in the sheets.

We need to check your welfare pimp credentials pretending that
African Americans just aren't up to the task and need to be
protected and get "special treatment" because they can't
stand the heat in the kitchen. Shame on you for assuming
the worst about African Americans and immediately playing
the race card like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Rev Wright
and other racially divisive welfare pimp blacks.

[Xavier_Onassis]

So you send this beaten-up toon of Obama and continue to suggest that Rev Wright, whom you do not understand and never will, says publicly what Obama is thinking and you are not picking on Obama and somehow I am the racist?

You are insane. Bonkers. Barking mad.
as well as a bonehead ratwing dolt, not to be taken seriously.

I am not the one who refers to himself in the plural, and thinks Christianity has something to do with "less government".

[Christians4LessGvt]

So you send

"send"?
XO what are you talking about?

this beaten-up toon of Obama

Yes XO, whats the big surprise?
Most major media outlets are reporting Rev Wright doing interviews and holding press conferences
this week is not a good thing for Obama.
Democratic pundits were saying it was not good for Obama to have
the crackpot Wright out front and center again bringing attention to himself.
And in fact Obama has come out again and distanced himself from the nutcase Wright.

and continue to suggest that Rev Wright, whom you do not understand and never will,

So does Obama "not understand" Wright either, because Obama is distancing himself from Wright.
If it's just a matter of "understanding" why is Obama distancing himself from Wright?
Does Obama "not understand" Wright or is Obama lying and doesn't want to distance himself?

says publicly what Obama is thinking and you are not picking on Obama

Obama is being "picked on" as all presidential candidates are "picked on".
You just seem to think since Obama is black it's unfair.
Senator Obama stated that he thinks Rev Wright is a legitimate issue in the campaign.

Barack Obama:

"People were legitimately offended by some of the
comments he had made in the past," Obama said.
And, "the fact that he is my former pastor ...
makes it a legitimate issue" in the presidential
campaign"

Barack Obama didn't cry race, but oh we know XO will!
It's racist for you to put that little faith in an African American.
Obama will sink or swim on his own without your need to cry pansie ass racism.

and somehow I am the racist?

Yes you seem to be the racist, because you run to the "safety" of crying race
when Obama is being treated no differently than any other Presidential
candidate would. You want to shield the Leftist candidate from scrutiny
by hiding behind a false racist charge.

You are insane. Bonkers. Barking mad.
as well as a bonehead ratwing dolt, not to be taken seriously.
I am not the one who refers to himself in the plural, and thinks Christianity has something
to do with "less government".


More changing the subject. I guess I could pick some boring ass name like "XO"
and then you would not have a problem with me? LOL yeah thats it, the problem
is in the name. 

[Plane]

Wright was a veteran and served his country. Cheney actively AVOIDED this, and Juniorbush hid out in a hangar filled with obsolete aircraft.

Stop picking on Obama, You are beginning to resemble a racist. WE need to check your laundry for eyeholes in the sheets.

Oh wow!

This is so far off the mark I gotta wonder about your racial attitudes.

Is his race the main thing you ever notice about Barak Obama? Is it the only thing about him that is worthy of mention? Does it trump all other consideration of his traits?