Running Primaries Thread

I agree that it was classy by McCain... I loved how Hannity continued to push him when he refused to take the bait...

 

McCain seemed bothered by Hannity doing that too.

 

I'm watching Obama talk about Wright with Anderson Cooper. He keeps saying that he doesn't share Wright's views. But he said that specifically when asked about the statements about Hillary never being called nigger. Gee, I don't like to write that word. Anyway, isn't it at least okay to agree that Hillary isn't black.

By the way, I think the whole thing smells a lot like someone putting it out there just so people know Obama's not muslim.

 

That makes no sense.

 

Well, it is long past my bedtime. So it probably doesn't. You're right. He wouldn't do it. But it does have that benefit despite the obvious drawbacks.

 

His campaign puts out a memo calling attention to an not entirely honest op-ed regarding the good Reverend.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=3105288&page=1
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It eats up the entire news cycle and is injected into the campaign narrative for the rest of the way.
Then he comes on an piously tells us how dismayed he is.
Yeah, the same way he was shocked SHOCKED to learn how politics worked after Charlie Keating bankrolled his start.
Big. Fucking. Fake.

 

Oh . . . and there's the divorce, and the dive for big-bucks Cindy.

But that one will keep, for a while.

 

And the deeply theological conversion from Methodist to Baptist, just in time for the 2008 primaries.
God works in mysterious ways.

 

From the ABC link:

And this, combined with his refusal to even remotely distance himself from the wacky clergyman who has endorsed him, are the actions of a candidate and his campaign who know that there is a media double standard that favors and protects them.

 

I don't know, Fen. If he's a big fake, then he's sure put one over on Jones. And I think Jones' bullshit detector wouldn't allow that to happen.

I thought McCain looked genuinely uncomfortable during that exchange.

 

Well, if McCain thought after sustained discourse with Keating that it was all going to be a piece of cake, I have a bridge to sell him.

I spoke directly with a number of Keating's disciples, once upon a time. Amazed that Jim Jones -- or even Amway -- didn't recruit them. Glassy-eyed true believers, they were.

 

Inky --
Sorry. That's not good enough for the Big Fucking Fake's bona fides for me. I've watched the whole thing unfold from about 1999 on, and, if the media whores weren't so in love with the guy, he'd be as big a figure of ridicule as Mitt Romney by now.