History Forum / General / British History / March 2008

Drip, Drip, Drip...

Barak Hussein Obama has by no means survived the Pastor Disaster, in fact
the chickens are just coming home to roost.

The New Pastor at the Obama Church is preaching along the same lines as
Jeremiah Wright -- but Obama has locked his feet in concrete* and stayed in
the Church.

Stay Tuned...

We'll See How This Turns Out.

* With Removable Locks?

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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Clinton: Wright 'would not have been my pastor'

By Mike Wereschagin and David M. Brown
Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left
her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack
Obama's former pastor made.

"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your
family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

Obama's lead in national polls has slipped since clips of the retired Rev.
Jeremiah Wright began being played on national news programs. The uproar
prompted Obama to give a wide-ranging speech on race in America a week ago.
The Clinton campaign has refrained from getting involved in the controversy,
but Clinton herself, responding to a question, denounced what she said was
"hate speech."

"You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (who was fired from his radio and
television shows after making racially insensitive remarks), saying that
hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that," Clinton
said. "I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have
to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving."
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Clinton's 90-minute interview covered topics from pledged delegates to Iraq.
Among her statements this morning:

On saying last week that she landed under sniper fire during a trip to
Bosnia in 1996, when she was first lady:

"I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke."

• On superdelegates:

"The governor from Tennessee (Phil Bredesen) suggested that there be a
convention of superdelegates, and I think that it is an intriguing idea. I
have not considered it long enough to have an opinion on it."

On the possibility of Gov. Ed Rendell becoming her running mate:

"It's premature to say that I would have Gov. Rendell, but I have a lot of
regard for the governor."

• On Social Security:

"We need to have a bipartisan commission much like President Reagan and Tip
O'Neill had in the '80s where they worked together, and we have lived off of
those efforts. But we need to do something now. One of the caveats that I
would have is that people that are presently on Social Security or about to
go on Social Security not be affected."

• On so-called earmarks, which are congressional appropriations to specific
institutions:

"I am proud of my earmarks," she said sarcastically. "Part of the reason
that I won New York by 67 percent are my earmarks."

Staff writer Salena Zito contributed to this report.