Obama explains — click to embiggen

If a president’s honesty, judgment and deeply held beliefs about race aren’t important, I don’t know what is. I’m getting a little sick of leftwingnuts telling me that the Wright affair doesn’t matter, its trivia, the media is pushing this and the right is exploiting it, the stupid, racist right etc. etc.

That’s bunk.

There is no more important issue that cuts right to the heart of the guy’s soul: does he believe what he and his wife have been nodding, agreeing and cheering with in front of their impressionable young daughters all these years?
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Punditz are still writing off Hillary, learning nothing from their past premature obits, only to have her rise like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction for one more flailing stab at her tormenters, no matter how many bullets, knives, polls and super-delegates are thrown at her.

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God tagging Palin so she can jump in the ring against Obama/Biden in the tag-team no-holds-barred cage/death match 2008
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What she should have said to Obama Sweetie:
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Since Mormonism teaches blacks are “accursed of God”, perhaps that makes them fair game for bashing their religion, since they are so beneath whites? This would make Romney supporters consistent, at least.

All during Romney’s rise, we here at docweaselblog were voices in the wilderness, pointing out the racism, hypocrisy, hate-teaching, sexist beliefs and practices and intolerance of other religions endemic in the Mormon cult.

Again and again, McCain hating rightbloggers, who had no other credible alternative because they also detested Huckabee (and his evangelicalism) embraced Romney and again and again decreed that “religion is out of bounds”. You can’t attack a candidate on his religion, you can’t even discuss it.
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Dems prepare for the 2008 in customary fashion

An long, costly, bloody, badly run, unpopular war (which war wouldn’t be, after the first 4 qualifiers) 8 years of Republican rule in the White House, after which the out party usually has the upper hand (unless you’re running against Dukakis, which they may be this year) an extremely unpopular president, latest poll numbers at 28%, dropping below the basement 30% of hard-core Republican stalwarts (although I don’t see it as justified, and I believe most people like him personally) and an economy that is perceived as, even if its not actually, going South.
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I hate cigarettes and applaud efforts to keep them out of my face and encouraging smokers to quit, but there is a line where government starts to impinge in individual rights, de facto outlawing, or making overly expensive, a habit millions enjoy and which is not illegal.

If you are a true libertarian, you should feel uncomfortable with onerous smoking regulations and taxes, even if you don’t smoke yourself. Next time it could be your ox getting gored and all that:
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Time for Another Obama Speech

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Obama explains to San Francisco liberals why racist, gun-humping Jesus jumpers in fly-over country are too stupid to vote their own interest

UPDATE: According to Jennifer Rubin, the press, for several reasons, isn’t letting Obama off the hook. My guess is that they just love to build up and tear down. Beatify you this week, crucify you next week, resurrect you the following week etc. I think Obama is going to be so hurt this time – “his cross was rather bloody, he could hardly roll his stone.”
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.., 33% Hillary, 0% McCain supporters found

The comments are the hilarious part of this piece by ABC news hack Martha Raddatz: Surprising Political Endorsements By U.S. Troops in which she searches throughout Iraq and finds 2 Obama backers, 1 Hillary supporter, and one guy who says he likes the Republicans because they have been paying his paycheck, and that’s likely to continue, being the warmongers they are, so he wouldn’t be against them continuing.
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