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This is going to hurt Obama in the long run.
The left can poo poo it all they want its going to hurt him.

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This is going to hurt Obama in the long run.

Yeah! Hitchens isn’t a conservative by any means. Obama is drawing heavy fire!
The tag line of his article:

This disappointment is only the first of many that are still to come.

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

WRIGHT ON HITCHENS: FAR “STUPIDER AND WICKEDER” THAN I, AS DEMONSTRATED BY HIS BOOK EQUATING FASCISM WITH FUNDAMENTALISM, AND HIS SLANDEROUS POLIICALLY MOTIVATED ATTACK ON ME!

seek professional help.

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Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Wait a second; Christopher Hitchens is best known for book length ad hominem attacks like “God is not Great.” He’s liberal, yes, but hardly intellectually honest.  He gets this one close to right, but to call him “intellectually honest” is more or less equivalent to suggesting that Al Franken has a professorial demeanor.

to call him “intellectually honest”

Well, let’s just say I’ve found him to be far less intellectually dishonest than most!

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

...But is it “inflammatory” to say that AIDS and drugs are wrecking the black community because the white power structure wishes it? No. Nor is it “controversial.”

And now what Proof...you have been saying his comments were “inflammatory” and getting upset every time I said his comments were stupid or silly.

Silly:

1archaic : helpless, weak
2 a: rustic, plain bobsolete : lowly in station : humble
3 a: weak in intellect : foolish b: exhibiting or indicative of a lack of common sense or sound judgment <a very silly mistake> c: trifling, frivolous
4: being stunned or dazed <scared silly> <knocked me silly>

So now that we know what Pastor Wright is....what does this say about Obama?

Nothing, except that he probably knew that he had to understand his voting base and that he couldn’t turn his back on the black community.

You wan’t him to turn his back on the black community, at least the community that his church attends.  But the real question that comes down to this. 

How many blacks feel a lot of the way Pastor Wright speaks, but hold in inside themselves because they know it is silly, and crazy?  Probably a lot. 

Now what?  How about we just take Obama at his word about what he thinks and at his word about why he said he attended the church?

Yes, no?

hannitized,

Hitchens characterized the comments as “...wicked and stupid and false...”

Furthermore, in his first paragraph he offers:

It’s been more than a month since I began warning Sen. Barack Obama that he would become answerable for his revolting choice of a family priest. But never mind that; the astonishing thing is that it’s at least 11 months since he himself has known precisely the same thing. “If Barack gets past the primary,” said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the New York Times in April of last year, “he might have to publicly distance himself from me. I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.” Pause just for a moment, if only to admire the sheer calculating self-confidence of this. Sen. Obama has long known perfectly well, in other words, that he’d one day have to put some daylight between himself and a bigmouth Farrakhan fan. But he felt he needed his South Side Chicago “base” in the meantime. So he coldly decided to double-cross that bridge when he came to it. And now we are all supposed to marvel at the silky success of the maneuver.

The problem of course is that the MSM are no longer effective gatekeepers.  Wright’s infamies have penetrated far deeper into the public consciousness than the MSM can, at this late date, compensate for.

Hitchens also notes in his second paragraph an issue which we have heard discussed sotto voiced amongst klatches of Bay Area hoi poloi: “He just threw his grandmother under the bus!”

You often hear it said, of some political or other opportunist, that he would sell his own grandmother if it would suit his interests. But you seldom, if ever, see this notorious transaction actually being performed, which is why I am slightly surprised that Obama got away with it so easily. (Yet why do I say I am surprised? He still gets away with absolutely everything.)

Neither of which is going un-noticed nor un-commented upon.

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Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

And now what Proof...you have been saying his comments were “inflammatory” and getting upset every time I said his comments were stupid or silly.

Work on your comprehension skills, Spamatized! He was saying that they were not merely inflammatory, or merely controversial.

Whereas, you are not merely silly, you are also mind-numbingly stupid. Understand the difference?

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Well, let’s just say I’ve found him to be far less intellectually dishonest than most!

Talk about damning him with faint praise, Proof.  :^)

And Hannitized, please.  I’ve been in a number of black churches--including one in Compton for every Saturday morning in the summers of 1994 and 1995--and have yet to hear the kind of nonsense that Rev. Wright espouses.  Obama could certainly have chosen another church in the black community had he wanted to, just as you or I can choose from any number of churches.

He chose the racist church for two decades, and voters should remember this.

What does this say about Obama?

Well, for starters, it says that a man who wants to be President of the United States attended, for 20 years, the church of stupid and “silly” [lack of wisdom, common sense] Rev. Wright and never once saw fit to challenge his minister’s rants until it became a public embarrassment.

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

The times, they are a-changin’...
Bob Dylan

Talk about damning him with faint praise,

How about: He comes across as a pillar of rectitude compared to some who show up here!

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.