Sometimes, Lady Liberty is such a tease.

I'm just trying to decide who to vote for.

I don't get it.

Yes, the media should have been covering the Wright story more.  Without a doubt! It’s been a slow new week so this really could have gotten a lot of coverage, along with our other obsessions of Spitzer and Kilpatrick.  Is the Obama story bigger than those?  Yes.  Considering the Spitzer shit storm was over by Wednesday, Kilpatrick’s stories are still treading water any day, and the Obama-with-the-crazy-minister story hitting Thursday morning courtesy of ABC, well, people should have been all over it.  It should have been treated like news mana from heaven Thursday.  But it wasn’t.  That was the first thing that makes no sense.  

Second, I don’t trust mudslinging from either side, especially coming from a YouTube video with leading SEO keywords at the end.  I write SEO; I see through that.  Not that it matters.  By the time I saw the video, there were so many news results for “Obama’s pastor,” that anything anyone actually wanted you to find, which would have of course been slanted right, was buried anyway.  It’s hard to do SEO in an election year, kids.  Again, not that it matters.  The key thing here is that YouTube isn’t exactly my source and shouldn’t be anyone’s source.  

Third, something is totally missing from this story.  What’s up with Wright?  Is anyone interviewing him?  What does he have to say?  Did he say the radical stuff to Obama?  Does he say he did?  Is this a crazy minister who got more radical closer to his retirement?  Was he like this for 20 years?  What’s his relationship with Louis Farrakhan really?  I want to know just how many of these statements made it into Wright’s weekly sermons—and just how many of those Obama attended.  

Obama was close to Wright, close enough to borrow his verbiage for a book title! So how could he not know what the guy believed and spewed in his sermons?  And what is so good about Wright that you can forgive the crazy statements and still attend the church, even though you condemn the crazy stuff he says about 9-11, HIV, etc?  I’m sure there are a lot of black churches in Chicago.  I’m sure there are plenty of Christian pastors Obama could have liked just as much—or even more—had he been offended enough to switch churches.     

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I dunno…I would have quit the church, Obama.

“I would — do not repudiate the man,” Obama told Olbermann. “[T]his is somebody who I have known for 17 years. He helped bring me to Jesus and helped bring me to church. … But I have to say that the comments that have been played are ones that are contrary to what I believe, what I think of this country, the love that I have for this country and, you know, are ones that anger and distress me.”

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— http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9051_Page2.html
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On Feb. 20, after a fiery guest sermon by Wright in Little Rock, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ran an article that said: “On Tuesday, Wright criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq and likened the insurgents to the Israelites under Babylonian rule.”

At 9:20 that morning, Obama opponents were already trying to get Politico to link to the story.

That’s why many news outlets — including Politico — did not initially pile on with rehashes after Ross’s story on “Good Morning America”

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— http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9051.html

Video explanation from Obama. 

Obama attempts to explain...

What in the hell is this all about? 

“One hundred and fifty thousand Iraqi people have been killed since the American occupation was ordered by patriarchs in Washington D.C., patriarchs who were responsible for the welfare reform act.”
— http://www.counterpunch.org/reed01142008.html
What I am reading.
Read his lips...no new taxes
that tax link once again

My buddy sent this out on myspace

Taxes - Clinton vs. Bush years

” Based on using the actual tax tables (see link below), here are some examples on what the taxes were/are on various amounts of income for both singles and married couples. so let’s see if the Bush tax cuts only helped the rich.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html


Taxes under Clinton 1999
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750

Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $31,250

If you want to know just how effective the mainstream media is, it is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If any democrat is elected, ALL of them say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can’t wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money, and they don’t even know what happened.