Obama says he knew Wright was nuts but it's all our fault

So much for Barack Obama's claim that he didn't know Jeremiah Wright was delivering poisonous rants from the pulpit. According to his speech today:

Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes.

I guess he wasn't really sleeping during 20 years of sermons after all. So is he going to disclaim Wright?

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

Nice touch - Barack just threw Granny under the bus by making her seem equivalent to that hate-spewing wingnut Wright. In point of fact, Granny was mostly wary after an attempted mugging according to Obama himself and never said anything even approaching one of Rev. Wright's footnotes. Hmm, Granny Dunham is still alive but Obama's campaign won't let her talk to anyone. I wonder what she thinks?

I'll spare you the rest of the speech and give you the punchline: everybody is imperfect and racist except for the Obamessiah, but we'll all be saved if we turn to him and immediately implement socialism. Oh yeah - he finished off with a John Edwards style fairy story.

Hey Barack, you wouldn't be bamboozling us would ya?

Barack Obama loves Malcolm X's line about politicians bamboozlin' the regular folks, with the implication that he doesn't do it. The only problem with that is that a lot of Barack's tall tales don't fit together:

In the Jeremiah Wright affair, Barack Obama is most certainly lying about something.

He now insists that he is “shocked, shocked” (in the style of Claude Raines in “Casablanca”) to hear that anti-Americanism had anything at all to do with Wright’s ministry.

He has also claimed to be a “devout Christian” who attends church every week and is deeply involved in the life of Wright’s congregation (where he’s been a member for twenty years).

It’s simply not possible that he could be an active member in the church without hearing something about sermons in which the pastor blamed 9/11 on America’s past sins, or called down curses repeatedly (“God D---n America!”) on his own nation.
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Hey, Barack—it’s either one or the other: either you were lying when you talked about your deep, soul-changing involvement in Trinity United Church of Christ, or else you’re lying when you say you never had any idea (until last week) about the crazy and offensive and sickening contents of the pastor’s diatribes from the pulpit.

My guess is that Obama is actually telling the truth about his deep involvement in the church, but lying (very badly) about knowing nothing about its pastor’s excesses.

Malcolm X liked hoodwink too - so does Obama.

Today's Hoot: Barack Obama's spirtual shepherd and mentor

Let's tune in as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Barack Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ and Obama's spiritual guide, pal, and mentor 'splains why Barack Obama is the one:




I liked the "Jesus was a black man and the Romans were rich white men" part myself although the bit about Barack being poor and underprivileged is quite a hoot too, in view of Obama's white middle class grandparents who sent him to the best schools, Barack's mansion with its 1000 bottle wine cellar and Michelle Obama's diamond jewelry collection. Hmm, I wonder if the Rev has spotted any flying saucers like his pal Louis Farrakahn. Anyhow, the best line award goes to Ace:

Barack Obama: "I don't think my church is particularly controversial."

Of course you don't darling. You don't think taking high tea with terrorists is controversial either.

Indeed.

However, this a just a mild version of the Rev. Wright, presumably because he was doing his big endorsement of Barack despite the tax code prohibitions on churches being involved in political campaigns. If you want to get the full flavor of the Rev. Wright check out the following prime rant including the startling disclosures that the USA created the AIDS virus and that the USA is persecuting the Palestinians on behalf of the evil Jooos. See if you don't think he needs a check up from the neck up:

Hey Hussein, explain again why you think the Rev. Wright is so swell.

Spitzer's hottie revealed!

Predictably, Eliot Spitzer's Washington DC pricey hot date has been unmasked and well, she's a goofy young woman currently named Ashley Alexandra Dupre with a big nose and the belief that she's really a singer. My advice: don't quit your day job. Or is it night job?


(Latter photo stolen from FR)

Eliot Spitzer strutting his stuff

Click to supersize the horndog.

Sing it, Eliot:

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man: no time to talk. 
 

Aw, Eliot Spitzer is just a piker

Whoremonger Eliot Spitzer can't hold a candle to Teheran's Chief of Police:

Tehran's police chief, Reza Zarei, has been arrested after he was found nude in a local brothel with six naked prostitutes, according to report on the Iranian Farda News.
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Before he was arrested, Zarei was in charge of the programme for the 'moralisation of the city'.

I'll bet Eliot is really envious.

It's nice that Eliot Spitzer has a hobby

You'd think to look at him that Eliot Spitzer wouldn't be much for hobbies. His grim faced "tribune of the people" stare (always popular among leftoid politicos) plus his continual holier-than-thou pronouncements would make you believe he spends all his spare time reading Karl Marx. Well, not to worry - Spitzer Has Used Hookers For 6 Years:

Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been soliciting high-priced hookers for at least six years and possibly for more than a decade, sources tell The Post.

The revelation yesterday that the crusading governor was in fact "Client 9" named in a federal prostitution indictment did not shock insiders in the city's sex industry.

Sources tell The Post that Spitzer had frequented high-priced hookers as far back as 2002 and possibly earlier.

Golly, maybe Eliot can get an endorsement contract when he resigns as governor!

The joke is on Eliot Spitzer

Some selections of Eliot Spitzer humor from the commenters at the NY Observer's "A Long Night for the Times Metro Desk":

His next statement should be, "Define prostitution. What is it really? And is this that?" It worked for his friend Bill Clinton.

Looks like Hillary has found her running mate!!!

Seven thousand dollars for sex. I've never spent that much for anything that didn't have four wheels and a transmission. Can you picture the Guv. having to put his pants back on, remove the ball gag and find a cash machine because he was short fifteen hundred, talk about breaking the mood.

Well, I guess that rather than calling him Eliot Ness, from now on he should be known as Eliot P Ness!

At least your Governor is straight, unlike NJ.

What do you mean a "LONG NIGHT", how long does it take to write, "IT'S GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT". If a mouse breaks wind in Borneo, old george caused it, at least according to the NYTimes!!!!!!!!!

Drunk Man's Guide made a drink in honor of Eliot Spitzer! Check it out - it's hilarious. .. Client #9 Shooter

buenos dias senor! does this mean we no geta driber liesense? quiero drive una coche. why u fuka mi chanses of getting a driber license in su state senor? me so sad now. i wanta to driba car.

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving individual. I liked the way he dragged his kids to today's press conference and gave 'em a big kiss afterwards. Pondscum.

Golly, the press finally noticed that Emperor Barack was buck naked

Ask Tough Questions? Yes, They Can!

It took many months and the mockery of "Saturday Night Live" to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.

The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democratic presidential nomination for him, a smiling Obama strode out to a news conference at a veterans facility here. But the grin was quickly replaced by the surprised look of a man bitten by his own dog.

Reporters from the Associated Press and Reuters went after him for his false denial that a campaign aide had held a secret meeting with Canadian officials over Obama's trade policy. A trio of Chicago reporters pummeled him with questions about the corruption trial this week of a friend and supporter. The New York Post piled on with a question about him losing the Jewish vote.

Obama responded with the classic phrases of a politician in trouble. "That was the information that I had at the time. . . . Those charges are completely unrelated to me. . . . I have said that that was a mistake. . . . The fact pattern remains unchanged."

When those failed, Obama tried another approach. "We're running late," the candidate said, and then he disappeared behind a curtain.

In related news, Barack informs us in a paid campaign commercial that he believes in the leftoid canard that Arab-Americans were "rounded up" after 9/11:

"If there is an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney, it threatens my civil liberties."

Good thing the mysterious "rounder-uppers" didn't touch Syrian-American moneyman Tony Rezko or Obama wouldn't have been able to buy his mansion!

Obama has a special plan for Cuba

Barack Obama, AKA Kumbaya Boy, says he wants to fulfill the wet dreams of generations of American leftists by holding precondition-free talks with the thugs in Cuba. Actually, knowing his extreme leftoid predilections, I'm sure he plans to overachieve.