Not at all unusual I'm accused of 'going off the deep end' when I show up a few posters' proclivities to hypocrisy. On the one hand, they claim they want their 'proof' from outside sources. You provide legitimate proof, and the reject it. That is a very common practice among posters here in Mudcat.

I said a ways back up, I don't have a problem with most of the Rev Wright's sermons--I'm pro-Palestinian, and considering how often I've been in Afrocentric churches (I'm in them as often as I'm . I personally know Ward Churchill, and agreed with much of what he wrote in the essay (he technically wasn't fired for the essay, BTW, they trumped up academic research misconduct charges against him). Bill Maher being fired was an outrage.

BUT!

This whole thing goes to the point a few of us here have been making, that Obama isn't the best candidate for the Dems, because of these sort vetting issues. Had Obama not been swept away by his own popularity and, ill advisedly I believe, chosen to run for president so quickly, he wouldn't be having these problems.

And these problems are going to be substantial ones to overcome in a general election, and could wreck his chances of ever being president, even if he were to lose the nomination this year, or if nominated for the Dems, losing in the general.

The man is just a little too ambitious, a little too arrogant, a little too duplicitous, a little too scripted, a little too stubbornly sure of his rightness.

His top aide even admitted this weekend they knew they had a problem with Rev Wright from the gitgo. When Obama was planning the launch announcement of his campaign, he had to be convinced NOT to let Wright do a prayer thing (ed comment: since when do presidential candidates do public prayers at the announcement of their candidacies?).

So wake up and smell the coffee about your candidate, is all some of us are saying. Take off the rose colored glasses, because if you don't, the Repubs will smash them off your faces.

You want to win & beat the Repubs back in the fall? Then get a grip.


Realize that this election cycle offers an historic opportunity for the Democrats to win back Congress in numbers large enough to sustain them in power for a generation. Which in the big scheme of things is far more important than just getting the White House back this election.

Work on getting rid of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, if you really want to make a difference in your nation's future. Then start thinking in terms of getting rid of corrupt presidencies by reducing the power and influence of the office itself, and making it a figurehead position, like most democracies.