Primary Loss and Furor Over Ex-Pastor Hurt Obama in Poll

Why won't Americans -- all Americans -- kneel before the annointed?

I don't think they will backroads voters are becoming more independent towards him.I could be wrong. Wright has created a major problems for super delegates from what I have been reading, voting for Senator Obama could create a backlash on their elections, probably in any State.

backroads, perhaps that is the article I read? Can you imagine him bringing down the rest of the Democrats? It could happen, it has happened before.

I just read an article on the Vine, that talks about hillary running as an Independent. That would really surprise me.

Meanwhile, during the primaries we had McCain, who once criticized the late Jerry Falwell for being lunatic fringe, paying homage to the "Moral Majority" pastor who once suggested all homosexuals be sent to concentration camps and that 9/11 was God's punishment for Hollywood. I don't see the media beating on McCain's door asking him if he still agrees with his flip-flop from disdain to support of Falwell and other religious right-wing nutcases. Next, we'll have McCain meeting with Pat Robertson and every other theocratic nutter from the extreme right, but no one from the media will raise an eyebrow because it is expected that any GOP candidate has to suck up to the Bible Belt to get elected. Hypocrisy, anyone?

Let's see, Bush during 2000 visited and praised Bob Jones University, a place that wouldn't allow mixed races to date each other. Pat Robertson, the nutcase who declared that God would attack Dover, Penn. because the people of that town wanted their kids to learn evolution in schools, supported Giuliani. Bush received mild press on his visit because the media expects right-wing politicians, even "compassionate conservative ones," to say outrageous things because they are all so uber patriotic, so it's OK. Giuliani could have refuted Robertson's support, but he didn't; neither was he asked by the media to defend it. As far as church attendance goes, Ronald Reagan, that champion of the Christian Right didn't even attend church and had his wife consult astrologers for making his trips. My point here is that the subtext in the Obama/Wright case is that white America gets shocked! shocked! to hear criticism from any black of stature. Therefore, by association, Obama gets tarnished by the reverend and questioned for his loyalties in a way none of the other candidates have been.

Kind of like Cheney's association with Haliburton or the Bush family's longstanding ties to the House of Saud.

Or, I almost forgot, McCain's longtime lobbyist friends working for him while also helping dictators around the globe. Yeah, most of them quit recently, but only when they were outed. Charlie Black remains. At least Obama's connection with the reverend didn't involve cozying up to a thug and a murderer--just a loud mouth. On another note, I saw that as soon as it was revealed that McCain's millionaire trophy wife had investments in the Sudan, they cancelled the investments. Why oh why must McCain do everything only after the media (the few who don't worship at his feet) have exposed his hypocrisy? Other candidates with similar investments dropped them BEFORE the media exposed them. What a phony chump this Keaton-Fiver was and is.