I haven’t had a change to do the background on this yet but a reader sent me a link which suggests that Sarah Palin helped her church get funding for a new youth center. Read for yourself. I have to get back to work. I’ll do a little bit more reading on this subject this afternoon.
A friend whom I like and admire wrote me:
but for Democrats to smear someone for getting pregnant before marriage (which is the way the Republicans may spin it) is playing into their hands. I think they will try to turn it into a positive for the anti-choice crowd. It is a constant challenge for me — as much as I CAN’T STAND them — not to be as nasty as they are.
Here’s what I have to say about that:
Of course the Republicans and the out-of-the-ballpark-right-wing Christian dominionists are already spinning it that it would be a “smear” to point out that the Palins’ teenage daughter is pregnant before marriage. They’ve managed to convince Obama and Biden that “families are off limits.” The fundie spokespersons have also already spun Sarah Palin’s decision (on her daughter’s behalf) as a portrait of “someone who lives their convictions.”
So the Palins and their daughter are “living their convictions” in terms of not aborting the fetus — and demanding a halo of self-righteousness for doing so. For the moment let’s overlook the fact that these same people also insist that the rest of us live by THEIR convictions, regardless of our own beliefs.
What’s more to the point is that as they SIMULTANEOUSLY ignore their own convictions about “no sex before or outside of marriage,” they want — they demand, and for the most part the media gives them — a FREE PASS for that. And that’s where the hypocrisy becomes part of the political game.
Remember, Mommy Palin was pregnant when she had to marry Todd, her high school sweetheart, 20 years ago. Now her daughter is pregnant and has to marry her guy, too. But if the Republicans and, particularly, the dominionists have their way, NOBODY ELSE should ever be allowed to have sex before or outside of marriage, or to know the consequences of it — because, in Sarah Palin’s words, “explicit sex education” is wrong, and sex outside of marriage (and before marriage) is sinful, and ONLY abstinence education works to keep children pure. How well it worked with her own daughter!
These people are instantly ready to forgive all the “sins” that Republicans commit, because “everyone is human” and “has human failings.” But just let ONE DEMOCRAT have even the most minor sexual encounter outside of marriage, and watch him get impeached!
I simply can’t consider telling the truth and pointing out their lies and shameless hypocrisy to be nasty.
Senator Barack Obama did fantastic job in front of a relatively hostile audience. Pastor Rick Warren asked about his personal moral failures and his opinion on America’s moral failures. Obama talked openly about his youthful drug use. He also talks about America leaving behind those that are the least among us. It was a great answer.
I like to laugh as much, or more, than the next guy. I can laugh at myself– and my candidate. But, unfortunately, I think that the New Yorker has gone too far.
Senator Barack Obama and his supporters have fought hard to inform the American public that he is a Christian American. It shouldn’t matter what religion Obama is, but it does. That’s the reality of 2008. Racism and religion are touchy subjects, and New Yorker’s satire isn’t funny. Rather, it is insulting.
Update: I didn’t even notice the American flag burning in the fire place. This is all kinds of wrong.
Update II: 13% of Americans still believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
C&L has an excellent summary of progressive blogs.
Trinity Episcopal church (pictured above) dates back to 1733. The building is something to see if you are in Boston.
I’m not a church-goer, and I’m not likely to become one soon, but I don’t have a reflexive hostility to religion. Many on my side of the aisle would have a more favorable view of religion if churches made a real effort at including all people. Trinity provides a model statement on inclusiveness.
Here is the “Statement of Affirmation” from the well-known Trinity Church in Boston:
“Trinity Church of Boston welcomes and honors everyone,. In accordance with our baptismal covenant, we affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person, We strive to to include all persons without regard to sexual orientation, race,gender, family configuration, ethnic background, economic circumstance, difference in ability, culture, or age. Our love and acceptance of each other embody our commitment to unity with God and each other in Christ.”
James Dobson believes that if you don’t agree with his interpretation of the Bible then you are distorting the Bible. Unfortunately, for Mr. Dobson, God didn’t give him the power of infinite wisdom or insight. I guess Love thy Neighbor means we all must think and believe what Dobson believes.
BTW, the speech that Dobson has his panties in a twist over was given over 2 years ago. The speech was on religious tolerance. No wonder Dobson is so upset. We (or rather he) can’t have religious tolerance because that would put him out of business. Focus on the Family is all about intolerance.
Update: I found this excellent post on Kos from a moderate Christian coalition called Matthew 25.
From WaPo:
Dobson’s comments, which aired today on his Focus on the Family radio show, come as Obama’s campaign plans to launch a broad appeal to evangelicals and Catholics.
Dobson and Tim Minnery, a senior vice president at Focus on the Family, spent about 20 minutes of the show harshly critiquing a speech that Obama gave in 2006 to a group of liberal Christian leaders.
In the speech, Obama argues for religious diversity and acceptance and prods liberals not to cede issues of faith to Republicans. (more…)
Here’s my spin around today’s news:
I have misspoken many times in the past and I promise that I’ll do it again in the future because I’m not perfect. I do try to chose my words carefully, especially if I’m talking to someone who is recording me. It only makes sense. I have never called someone an idiot or pinhead or moron if I didn’t mean it (I try not to call anyone these names unless I’m joking. Name calling in a great way to get yourself in trouble).
So, when Pastor John Hagee called the Catholic church the “great whore,” it was clear what he meant. He arrived at this conclusion after a huge build-up. It isn’t like he just blurted out - “great whore.” No, instead, he lead up to the moment by speaking of the past sins of the Catholic church, suggesting that today’s church should be responsible for the sins of the past. Hagee started with the Inquisition and then talked about the Crusades. He then tied the Crusades to antisemitism and the hatred of the Jews. I have no idea what the Crusades have to do with antisemitism, but Hagee was on a roll. Hitler, according to Hagee, learned his hatred of the Jews through this Catholic teaching. Then he ended with the assertion that the Catholic church is the “great whore.”
Well, it looks like Pastor Hagee didn’t mean it. He was just playin’. All I can say is “yeah, right.” Hagee may not have liked the media focus or the public criticism but he meant to say exactly what he said. In order to add insult to injury, in my opinion, Hagee met with several Catholic leaders earlier and wrote a letter to William Donohue, President of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, apologizing for his inflammatory rhetoric. Donohue has accepted his apology.
Hagee needs to go back and read that Bible that he is carrying around. He needs to open his heart and his mind when he is reading. The Catholic church has had much to answer for, but so has all of mankind because we aren’t perfect. We all fail just has Hagee has failed now.
I was willing to stick up for the Reverend Jeremiah Wright when clips were being played. I believe that it is relatively easy to misconstrue the meaning of a sermon by listening to a couple sentences. Immediately after the controversy, the Wright was conspicuously absent from the public eye. I think this was a good thing. I think that his return to the public stage by being interviewed on PBS’s the Bill Moyers Journal was also a good move. His interview with Bill Moyers was thoughtful and illuminating.
If all you wanted to do was tell your side of the story, you were done. You are finished. Clearly Wright had other things in mind. Exactly what these other things were, only Wright can tell us that. We could speculate it probably has to do with enjoying the national stage and/or wanting to cash in on his 15 minutes of fame. Again, I would like to stress that I do not know the Wright’s motivations.
Following the Bill Moyers Journal, Wright was the keynote speaker at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner. Wright took this opportunity to distance himself from the thoughtful pastor, we saw just 24 hours earlier. He was, by far, more over-the-top. Finally, his performance at the National Press Club was simply out-there. I’m not sure what he was trying to represent but he seemed to resemble some of the patients that I saw while working in the psychiatric unity that were off of their medications. I’m not the only one with this opinion. I’m not the only one in the black community with this opinion.
There is a rumor that Reverend Barbara A. Reynolds (pictured above) invited Wright to the National Press Club where she is on the selection committee. Interestingly, Reynolds is also a supporter of Senator Hillary Clinton. Therefore, the conspiracy theory goes like this: Someone in the Clinton camp asked the Reynolds to entice the Wright to speak and speak openly about his deepest feelings on race, religion and America. I believe that this is hogwash. I don’t think that Clinton’s camp had anything to do with this. I have no data to back up my feelings, it is simply my opinion.
Maybe, Wright did Senator Barack Obama a favor. By acting so completely unhinged, Obama has been allowed to completely and totally distance himself from Wright. Therefore, if Obama wins the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, it will be extremely difficult for the Republicans to break this up and have it stick. Today, Obama formally denounced several of the ideas that Wright was expounding on. Maybe Wright’s 15 minutes of fame is now over and we can get back to talking about lapel pins.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright has come out of hiding. His first interview was with the great Bill Moyers. Those of you that have read my blog for some time know that I love Moyers. His PBS program has been a light of reason when no one else would be reasonable.
This interview begins at the beginning, when Wright was a young man and we follow him through his development. Wright served in the Marines and Navy. He earned three letters of commandation in his four years in the Navy. He was part of the team that operated on Lyndon Johnson. Wright was not drafted but, rather, he signed up for his time.
Following his time in the service, he became a minister and was asked to pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ. In this interview he talks about the challenges he has faced. This interview does go places that “normal” interviews will not go. Bill Moyers asks about black religious philosophy and black empowerment. Wright gives good clear answers, talking about his statements that have been flying around the internet. These answers are particularly important. There is no way that a rational human being will walk away for this interview saying that Wright is a black separatist, or that he is unpatriotic. Wright comes across as a thoughtful, intelligent, passionate black pastor who has worked hard to develop his church ministry.
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There has been yet another Friday afternoon dustup in this political campaign. Barack Obama was speaking in San Francisco last week (yes, last week– it took this long for somebody to find the video). He was entering a question about why some Pennsylvania voters are finding it hard to get behind his campaign. As usual, Obama gave a very thoughtful answer:
“But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Hillary Clinton, because her campaign is desperate, and John McCain, because he’s a Republican, have both jumped on this statement. They make accusations of Obama being an elitist (McCain may be the richest man in the Senate and Clinton made over $109 million in the last seven years. And THEY are calling Obama elitist? That’s rich…pun intended). Further accusations toward Obama of not respecting gunowners or religious God-fearing people have been recklessly thrown out. (more…)
I recently booked a car rental over the phone.
I use the phone instead of the computer so I can help keep people employed.
The rental car reservation guy, based on his accent and the fact the connection was lousy, was, I guessed, in India.
I want to keep people employed in India as well.
He seemed like a nice guy. He was telling me what a great deal I’d get if I rented this car or that car. It was quite a pitch. It was funny.
I said to him–”Hey, where are you? India?”
He said–”That’s right sir.”
I told him that while I have never been to India, that I would vote for the Congress Party and never for the BJP.
Congress and the BJP are the two leading parties of India. Congress is currently in government while the BJP is in opposition.
Broadly speaking, the Congress Party, for all its many flaws, sees pluralistic democracy as the underlying principle of the Indian state, while the BJP sees Hindu nationalism as the underlying principle of the Indian state.
(I have been very frustrated the last couple of days. The blog has been screwing up).
The politics of ’separate-and-divide’ are being used by the Clintons. It started with the three a.m. commercial and it has just continued. Not only do they feel the need to tear down Barack Obama but they also need to elevate themselves.
Instead, of telling the truth about what she has accomplished, we have that Lying Man from Saturday Night Live (I know I’m dating myself): “And I was … dodging sniper fire. Yeah, that’s it. Sniper fire. And everyone had to sit on their bulletproof vests. Yeah, that’s right. And I solved the Northern Ireland conflict while I was brushing my teeth. Yeah, that’s right. That’s the ticket.”
Booman from the Booman Tribute has a great post on the anger that many of us progressives feel against Clinton and the rest of the her gang.
From Booman (bold added for emphasis):
Hillary Clinton has gone too far. In a conversation with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Clinton presumed to tell Barack Obama where he should worship his God. She suggested that Reverend Wright is guilty of ‘hate speech’ and compared him to Don Imus.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor made. “He would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said. “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.” …”You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (who was fired from his radio and television shows after making racially insensitive remarks), saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that,” Clinton said. “I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.”
Hillary Clinton has a lot of gall to question her opponent’s choice of church considering her own kooky associations. And I think it would be equally repulsive if Barack Obama chose to make an issue of her decision to worship with Sam Brownback and Rick ‘Man on Dog’ Santorum. Obama certainly could question her faith and what her faith suggests about her political commitments. As Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported in Mother Jones last fall…
Clinton’s prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or “the Family”), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to “spiritual war” on behalf of Christ, many of them recruited at the Fellowship’s only public event, the annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the group has “made a fetish of being invisible,” former Republican Senator William Armstrong has said.) The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God’s plan.
The Fellowship leader is Doug Coe, who Clinton has described as “a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God.”
Coe’s friends include former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Reaganite Edwin Meese III, and ultraconservative Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.). Under Coe’s guidance, Meese has hosted weekly prayer breakfasts for politicians, businesspeople, and diplomats, and Pitts rose from obscurity to head the House Values Action Team, an off-the-record network of religious right groups and members of Congress created by Tom DeLay. The corresponding Senate Values Action Team is guided by another Coe protégé, Brownback, who also claims to have recruited King Abdullah of Jordan into a regular study of Jesus’ teachings.
But Barack Obama has not made Clinton’s kooky right-wing church into an issue on the campaign trail because he understands that a person’s faith is an intensely personal and (hopefully) non-political affair.
Clinton’s decision to question Obama’s choice of church is a bigger problem than her personal tastelessness. Her decision is an arrow aimed directly at the heart of the black community. It is one of the worst acts of public betrayal I have ever seen committed by a Democratic politician in my lifetime, and the most shortsighted and toxic decision I can recall.
White Americans may be surprised by their introduction to the style of black sermonizing in the figure of Rev. Wright, but the black community sees nothing particularly out of place in his rhetoric. This may or may not be a political vulnerability in the general election, but a far greater vulnerability is opened up by telling the black church-going community that Rev. Wright is the equivalent of Don Imus and his ‘nappy-headed hos’. The suggestion that Rev. Wright was engaged in ‘hate speech’ of a kind so loathsome as to require leaving his church is deeply offensive. The black community is feeling besieged by the national spotlight on Rev. Wright and the ensuing white backlash. They are looking around for allies, and find Hillary Clinton piling on and throwing them under the bus.
Clinton is not only presumptuous, she is vicious and divisive and hurtful. She should be defending Barack Obama against unfair attacks, and defending and contextualizing the tradition of black sermonizing. In his speech, Barack Obama sought to educate and bring reconciliation. Clinton’s response is to throw it all back in his face and suggest that there is something wrong with him for attending his church.
If Clinton succeeds in pushing this racial polarization to the point that white people will not vote for Obama, the black community will never, ever, forgive her. This is especially true because she can only win on the backs of the superdelegates.
At this point it is absolutely imperative that the party leaders step in and stop the Clinton campaign from inflicting lasting damage to the relationship between the party and the African-American community. She cannot be allowed to even try to win the nomination this way, let alone actually win it.
This is poison of the worst possible kind. It will destroy the party’s electoral viability more swiftly and more surely than anything I can think of.
I call on Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, Chairman Dean, and the other leaders of the party top step in right now and call this contest.
The Clintons absolutely must not be permitted to do this. It must be stopped.
Doesn’t this simple fact, if it is correct, change those who were arguing that McCain can’t help who endorses him?
Over the weekend, as the firestorm over Barack Obama and his preacher, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was reaching its maximum fevered pitch, some McCain supporters were quick to give their candidate the moral high ground. They said that McCain would never do anything like Obama.
But, when McCain supporters were asked about John Hagee, they would say that their candidate couldn’t help who endorsed him. If you pressed further and asked why he accepted the endorsement at a large press conference, there was no response.
Now, it seems that John McCain asked for John Hagee’s endorsement. Isn’t that something completely different?
Obama was 100% correct when he said that we have to confront race if we are going to get some of these tough problems solved.
I encourage everyone to read this speech and/or watch it. This is a great speech.
Below is the text of Obama’s speech, as it was prepared for delivery. I added some bold for emphasis.
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“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.
The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.
Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution – a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.
And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part – through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.
This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign – to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America. I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together – unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction – towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren.
This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people. But it also comes from my own American story.
I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton’s Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners – an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.
It’s a story that hasn’t made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts – that out of many, we are truly one.
Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. In South Carolina, where the Confederate Flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans.
This is not to say that race has not been an issue in the campaign. At various stages in the campaign, some commentators have deemed me either “too black” or “not black enough.” We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary. The press has scoured every exit poll for the latest evidence of racial polarization, not just in terms of white and black, but black and brown as well. [Read more →]
In Obama’s speech on race today, he answered the critics who were open to listening. I think that the majority of them will like his answer. However, there are some who would not be happy or satisfied with his answer. Those folks would not be impressed if he could whistle the Star Spangled Banner while walking a tightrope and drinking a glass of water.
This is really the second entry of a two-part post. The first portion is here.
I’m trying to get the whole video of Barack Obama’s speech. As soon as I find a good copy, I’ll post it. I have found a bad YouTube copy.
Below, Obama again focuses attention on what we need in this country.
Update: As I listen to more of Obama’s speech (not just the short clips available on CNN or MSNBC) I began to smile– again. Obama explains why he joined the church, not just any church but that church. He explains why he loves Jeremiah Wright both as a person and as a minister. Again, he does a great job explaining what others can’t or won’t explain. He does a GREAT job at framing the debate.
“If you don’t understand me, it’s your fault!!” That’s from the Spirit album by Earth, Wind and Fire. I think it’s saying that maybe we should stop jumping off of the deep end and take a deep breath.
There are all these accusations flying around. Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been called everything from blasphemous to a racist to a hate-monger. (In response, Obama’s church sent a press release supporting Reverend Wright.)
All of this is based on the four phrases that have been seen on YouTube, adding up to a total of 8-10 sentences. People have based their opinion on 8-10 sentences. Most of these people have never been in a Black church. They don’t understand how Black preachers get the congregation into the sermon. They don’t understand the emotion. Yet, they feel qualified out commenting on Reverend Wright’s personality based on the sound bites.
Both Hillary Clinton supporters and “hardcore” Republican have openly stated that they never trusted Barack Obama. Because he is Black? Because he worked in Illinois and not Washington? Why? Don’t give me this garbage about “I had this feeling.” And, by the way, where’s Hillary Clinton’s Reverend? Where is John McCain’s? Do these politicians go to church? They say that he has always seemed to be hiding something. What? That he goes to church?
Some have even thrown around the ridiculous notion that Obama has not been “vetted.” This is pure nonsense. All of those Americans with half-a-brain please stop for a minute and think. (To those Americans without half-a-brain: Please continue to stick your head in the gas tank to see if you’re car is running out of gas). Obama spent years in the Illinois House and Senate. The Chicago Tribune wrote numerous articles on Obama. I promise you, he has been investigated up one side and down the other. This is Chicago. The home of Mayor Daley. Every major politician gets vetted. Ask the former governor! Obama has been under scrutiny for the last four years. The scrutiny just intensified over the last two. You can’t tell me that the Washington Post or the New York Times or the LA Times haven’t been trying to find something on Barack Obama. If they haven’t, you know the Republicans have.
So, this is what they’ve come up with: 5-10 sentences that are objectionable to white people. I specifically say white people because I believe phrases like those spoken by Reverend Jeremiah Wright have been heard in Black congregations throughout this nation for the last 70 years (or more.) Until you have been at a Black church for three or four weeks, I do not believe you can adequately criticize a few sentences. Sit in the pews. Feel the emotion. Then, then come back to this blog and tell me that Reverend Jeremiah Wright said something that was blasphemous. Only then, will I take your criticism seriously.
Come on. Is this it? Is this all that they have? After digging in Barack Obama’s trash can for over a year someone has found “fiery” statements made by his preacher. Isn’t that what a Black preacher is supposed to do? Isn’t he supposed to get emotional? Isn’t the preacher supposed to try to get the crowd into his sermon?
Reverend Jeremiah Wright was forced to step down or to leave the Obama campaign. So ti seems that McCain can get an endorsement by John Hagee, who called Catholicism “the great whore,” but Obama has to let Reverend Wright go. I find it interesting that no one reported anything good that Reverend Wright might have done. The only things that we are seeing are the short sound clips of inflammatory comments. That is it. We are not even given any context for the comments.
So, this is how they will attack Obama. They have looked and looked and have been unable to find anything “shady” or “offensive” that Obama has done. They cannot find anything about him to attack They’ve tried the madrasa and the Muslim angle. That didn’t work. They’ve tried saying that his middle name Hussein. And that hasn’t worked. They have attacked his wife about a very benign comment. Now, they’re attacking those that are around him. The politics of destruction are clearly alive and well.
Keith Olbermann has an exclusive interview with Senator Barack Obama:
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