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Attacks using Rev. Wright are grossly unfair to Obama.

May 17, 2012 @ 10:45 pm

A GOP-leaning group wants to run ads on Rev. Wright now that the nation has forgotten about economic hardship, runaway spending and joblessness. Romney has "repudiated" the effort which is expected of him by the mainstream press because, such ads would be grossly unfair. After all, if there's one thing we've learned, it's that attacks on Obama's background are unfair.

It's unfair to examine his relationship with Tony Rezko and Obama's property deal with him.

It's unfair to examine his mentors, associates, or Reverends or anyone who may have influenced his world view as an adult (and double true for childhood mentors).

It's not fair to look at his past candidate pledges or legislative history to get a sense of his views.

The important thing for the American people is that they learn as much as possible about what Mitt Romney may or may not have done in high school. Did he say, "Atta girl" or cut hair? Did he ever hurt someone's feelings? Did he leggo the Eggo? Was he a Vampire as a child as well?

Until those questions are answered (and so, so many more) we should not expect any time spent on those other frivolous issues.

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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    It's not fair to ask if he.......
    May 17, 2012 10:09 pm
    Used the Fauxcahontas Technique (Elizabeth Warren)to gain favor at Harvard....."Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation."
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  • basefare wrote...
    It's not fair to ask if he.......
    May 18, 2012 2:00 am
    I guess that's why we have elections, to sort out what people care about and what they believe to be true.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    and if you ask if he's still smoking, it better be about cigarettes
    May 18, 2012 4:47 am
    If Romney wants to back off - well he is the candidate now. But also a good idea as Rev. Wright is currently venting his spleen about Oz throwing HIM under the bus. Probable won't turn votes to GOP, BUT if a lot of those who actually like Rev, Wright stay home over lack of 'loyalty', that's better than a tie in voters didn't care about 4 years ago.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Man please
    May 18, 2012 7:45 am

    You have had 4 yrs to come up with whatever your mind could create about Obama, 4 years of him being everything from a islamic terrorist plant for the umpteen time to now an extremist new black panther plant from the teaching's of Reverend Wright.

    Boze this blog of yours reeks of desperation,lol.

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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    and in that 4 years I have come to the conclusion
    May 18, 2012 7:59 am
    that there are people like sportsguru who are so lost in their ignorance, racism and blind allegiance that they will support this narcissistic sociopath no matter what evidence is uncovered of the damage he has done to the country. It is no use talking to them. We should just treat them as the traitors and enemies of liberty that they are.

    The good news is, there are many more people who were fooled the first time around but have awakened to the fraud. Ed Klein is one of them.

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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Paul Kersey
    May 18, 2012 8:37 am

    "We should just treat them as the traitors and enemies of liberty that they are. "

    So because I don't think like you, I am an enemy of the state? Fortunately, for the rest of us, those kind of statement's will ultimately be what will defeat your so called cause and make your employer rethink there strategy.

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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    guru...
    May 18, 2012 8:55 am
    "enemy of the state" and "enemy of liberty" are polar opposite in meaning. Of course, as an Obama cadet, I wouldn't expect you to have the intellectual capacity to understand that.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Paul Kersey
    May 18, 2012 9:05 am
    Of course being a traitor is polar opposites. Being illiterate can't be easy.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    How hard can it be guru?
    May 18, 2012 9:12 am
    you don't have to think about anything and your Obama bucks should start rolling in any day.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Now there's
    May 18, 2012 9:15 am
    an intelligent coherent argument. With you leading the charge, your side can't help but fail,lol.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    Ah yes, another trip into bizarro comparison world for Boze...
    May 18, 2012 8:02 am
    Boze, you're off into bizarro comparison world again. First, Obama supporters didn't run with most of the anti-Romney issues you bring up. The media did. When it comes to the desired used of Rev. Wright against Obama, it was desired by a right wing conservative running a Super PAC. AND we know that as usual, heavy fingered editing of Wright would have occured, making anything used to be out of context and to sound as horrible as possible. Some people say extreme things in a sentence that is followed additional sentences that put a reasonable context to the extreme statement. Example: "FormerMarineSgt is evil and anti-American - if he doesn't believe in the Constitution". If all you were to reveal to your readers is "FormerMarineSgt is evil and anti-American", then I sure look bad AND my comment was hacked and taken out of context. If anyone would acutally listen to Wright's full context - you'd find he is a bit extreme (and not to my taste at all), but NOTHING like what the right tries to make him into.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    uhh...Sarge
    May 18, 2012 8:13 am
    Reverend Wright's own words (in taped interviews) say that he takes nothing back, he meant every word he said that were used by "the right". What exactly does the "right" try to make him into that he is not? Do you even know anything about black liberation theology?
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    Gee Paul - do you know anything about 'out of context'?
    May 20, 2012 8:12 am
    "Reverend Wright's own words (in taped interviews) say that he takes nothing back, he meant every word he said that were used by "the right". What exactly does the "right" try to make him into that he is not? Do you even know anything about black liberation theology?" -------- Yes, I do Paul. And do you know anything about 'words and phrases being taken out of context'? Put those recordings INTO context and you'll find there is quite a different meaning than the Obama haters are trying to pin on it. I'm no Obama lover, but I won't lie to prove myself unlike many, many in politics today.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    so you won't answer the question, huh sarge?
    May 20, 2012 11:30 am
    Again....What exactly does the "right" try to make him into that he is not? If there is an unfair characterization....what exactly is it?
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  • kata wrote...
    fight on, oh ye keyboard gladiators.
    May 18, 2012 8:09 am
    Smear campaigns only reach the people who are only thirsting for more reasons to hate someone or people too stupid to fact check what they're being told. That goes for both the (R) and the (D). There is no "fair" in politics. It's a marketing game to try and see how many negative brand recognition markers you can stuff in a voter's brain before they actually have a psychically adverse reaction to a candidate's name. Anything to take away from the real problems this country faces.

    More bread! More circuses!

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  • anotherfencewalker wrote...
    Diversion plus smoke and mirrors..
    May 18, 2012 8:29 am
    This is #1 on my "Who really gives a 5h1t" list as far as who or what will fix a broken economy that keeps trying to come to life but won't gain speed... That's the top priority with every American with a brain cell. I could care less if Obama came from Kenya and is an illegal alien or whether Rommney is an aryan skinhead with a hairpiece. Who is it that can push the legislation through the D.C. gauntlet and stop banks from continuing tp blow billions, insurance companies from rapeing the public and big businesses from paying no tax dollars? What really bothers me is their remains those in the red camp who are nothing but childish name callers from the snicker and snort club. No input, no ideas, nothing to add to any debate. Like Bill Law. Just a bare chested sports fan with colorful body paint..
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  • anotherfencewalker wrote...
    "The blue camp??
    May 18, 2012 5:45 pm
    Bill..your M.O. is always pretty much the same. I've watched your posts for some time and they're always the same childish nonsense. No valid political stance, little or no facts, yukking and laughing it up with name calling etc. Noting to add, nothing to leave a reader to walk away with. Just bu115h1t. Thats seems to be all you've got to add to any of the debates. The fact that you may represent many of the red or blue voters in this country is frightening. It's all just a game of football to you. Why not go pop a top on a can of Schmidt beer and relax..You're input is nothing more than a comic strip between those that actually have a high school education. I respect, but may not agree with a differing point of view, but your opinions leave nothing for anyone to latch on to.
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  • Rick (4) wrote...
    Don't need to Rev Wright into this as Obama's record is enough
    May 19, 2012 8:45 am
    Let me count the ways Obama has failed the country:

    1. Spent more tax and borowed money in his first 2 years in ofice, than ALL of the previous Presidents combined with nothing positive to show for it.

    2. Quantitative Easing X2 - thus high inflation rates for the middle class, and more riches for the elite class with market manipulation.

    3. Continued unemployment rate of > 8% with a real unemployment rate above 15%.

    4. Higher health insurance and out of pocket costs due to Obamacare and the rewards this law gives to insurance and all other medical companies.

    5. Let's not forget gas prices >$4.30/gallon and climbing thanks to his plan to get our gas prices equal or higher than Europe's.

    6. Record deficts and national debt, when he campaigned on lowering these.

    7. No transparancy in government as he promised.

    8. Lots of lobbyists in government when he promised NONE in his administration.

    9. Weakened relations with all of our allies and enemies.

    10. Signed a law allowing for US citizens to be held forever without a trial, and people complained about Bush's patriot act but we still had a right to trial under Bush. P.S. Obama also renewed the Patriot Act.

    11. Opposed raising the debt ceiling as Senator, but demands raising it as President.

    12. Says he supports the poor and middle class, but as an example: From Jan 2009 until now - cost of necessities (food, utilities, gasoline, clothes, etc) has almost doubled while net incomes have dropped about 30%

    13. Said he would remove the Bush's tax cuts on the rich, but instead he signed the law extending these tax cuts.

    14. Bailouts to rich corporations so that the rich elitists are protected while at the same time allows bank to forclose on hard working class American's homes due to his failure to get the economy running again.

    I think this list begins to show us how he has failed America as President.

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  • messiah101 wrote...
    Rick (4)
    May 20, 2012 10:31 am
    I'll stop you after the very first reason you stated "Nothing positive to show for it" Ask the workers in the US auto industry if the jobs they had saved by Obama feel that "nothing positive" was achieved. Good grief start thinking before you type what other folks represented as FACTS
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  • Top Grunt wrote...
    Rick 4
    May 22, 2012 12:11 pm
    We the taxpayers are still paying for this goat rope bailout, did you know that GM paid no taxes for 2011, however we the american taxpayer paid them a return of over 100 million dollars, more tax dollars bailing out the failed union and management policies at GM. The bailout was for the union support for the big BO, they are still not up to the manhours that they were at before the bailout.
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    Some of these things are fair game, some are not.
    May 19, 2012 12:22 pm
    The deal with convicted slumlord Rezko, fair game. Massive donations from UBS who got bailout money, fair game. Senate voting record, fair game. His dismal current record, that's totally game on. (Boy did the liberals ever get sold a bill of goods on that guy. He's just like Bush with a better tan. lol)

    Personally, I think they ought to leave Rev. Wright out of it. (When he said America's chickens have come home to roost, the sad fact is that he was correct. -And he was quoting someone else.) That's not to say that I agree with the concepts of black liberation theology, I don't. I see the divisive nature of it antithetical to American and Christian ideals. It's just that I feel ones faith/church/religion is a personal matter. By the same token, I don't care about Romney's religion either. Nor do I want to hear select pull quotes from his old pastor.

    I don't care about Romney's high school days or how many wedgies he delivered. But I would like to know why he destroyed the records from his governors office, costing taxpayers there an extra 200k. I'd like to know why someone on his campaign payroll was forging fraudulent Ron Paul delegate slates at the Maine and Nevada caucuses.

    I pledge allegiance to the the central banking cartel, and the fiat currency for which it stands. One world, under debt slavery, with serfdom and poverty for all...

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  • kata wrote...
    @Rick and Roomtemp
    May 19, 2012 12:38 pm
    well said. Forcing a candidate to run on their record is the best way you can win. All this subjective nonsense just gets thrown around like so much rotten fruit. Name calling makes people tune out.
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