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Posted by: pc25 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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White House hopeful Barack Obama suggests he would have left his Chicago church had his longtime pastor, whose fiery anti-American comments about U.S. foreign policy and race relations threatened Obama's campaign, not stepped down.

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pc254 months, 3 weeks ago

FTA
Mr. Wright has only (abruptly) announced his intention to retire at the end of May 2008. He has not yet retired.
But never mind such petty details.
It's fun to watch Mr. Obama's fabled judgment at work.
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  libsRfunny4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Obama had 20 years to make up his mind about his pastor. His staying that long clearly indicates he supported his pastor rather than opposed his viewpoints.
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  pc254 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  and speaking of fabled judgement......Obama's vol. 104 is the least-cited volume of the Harvard Law Review in the last 20 years
  1. Obama's volume 104 (1990-91) has been cited an average of 170 times a year. That is, it was cited 2045 times in the first 12 full years after publication (i.e., 1992 to 2003). It has been cited at the lowest rate of any volume published in the past 20 years.
  2. By comparison, for all other volumes published during the past twenty years for which at least a year's worth of data is available (vols. 101 to 103, and vols. 105 to 118), they have been cited an average of 262 times a year Ã¢;; a rate 54% higher than the citation rate for Obama's volume.
  http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/02/12/how-g...
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pc254 months, 3 weeks ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080328/ap_on_el_pr...
Democrat Barack Obama seemed to suggest in an interview aired Friday that his former pastor has acknowledged that his controversial remarks were inappropriate and hurtful, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OF THE MINISTER HAVING DONE SO.

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  pc254 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  FTA
  "Had the reverend not retired and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable staying there at the church," Obama said."
  After 20 years as a member of the Church and only after being exposed would he consider leaving......strains credibility
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    zaph224 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Obama is good at things like this, lots of IF's, "IF I had been in Congress before the war I would have voted against going into Iraq", "If Wright hadn't retired I would have left the church". It's easy to claim you WOULD have done something after there is no way anyone can hold you to it, because it's all IF this, and IF that, about things that have already happened. And I know it's easy, my ex-girlfriend might have even been better at this than Obama is.
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      pc254 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      he has no record at all.........an empty suit that the liberal media has decided to endorse
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  pc254 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  good points
  
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dandt16124 months, 3 weeks ago

Sure he would have left. Whatever.
Obama thinks this will just go away but it hasn't and it won't. Everyone of our friends that we have talked with have said it has changed how they look at him and that they won't vote for him peroid. People don't forget stuff like this.
Be careful who vote for.
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