Day: May 9, 2008

God, Pastors And Candidates

To begin with I will not go to the Rev wright stuff, that has been playing ad naseum by the media and surely everyone has formed an opinion on him and his comments.  Moving on!

Farrakhan has endorsed Obama, it was not a sought after endorsement and Obama has distanced himself from the leader of the Nation of Islam, but it was a story for awhile and help fuel the “Obama–The Muslim” email.  A thinking person would not see the connection between his name and a religion, but then thinking was the key word.  It is a FALSE claim!

Let us speak of Rev. Hagee, this is a pastor who has belittled the Catholic Church, even to calling it derogatory names.  And it is an endorsement that McCain actively sought to help solidify his support among social conservatives.  But yet not much of a story within the mainstream media.

And now this from a Rev. Paisley another sought after endorsement by McCain.  This quote is from the Washington Times:”In March 2008–two weeks after McCain appeared with Parsley at a Cincinnati campaign rally, hailing him as “one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide”–Mother Jones reported that Parsley had urged Christians to wage a “war” to eradicate Islam in his 2005 book,” Corn adds. “McCain’s campaign refused to respond to questions about Parsley, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee declined to denounce Parsley’s anti-Islam remarks or renounce his endorsement. At a time when Barack Obama was mired in a searing controversy involving Reverend Jeremiah Wright, McCain escaped any trouble for his political alliance with Parsley, who leads the World Harvest Church, a supersized Pentecostal institution in Columbus, Ohio. Parsley, whose sermons are broadcast around the world, has been credited with helping George W. Bush win Ohio in 2004 by registering social conservatives and encouraging them to vote. McCain certainly would like to see Parsley do the same for him–which could explain his reluctance to do any harm to his relationship with this anti-Islam extremist.”

Now someone please take the time to explain this to me?  Why the disconnect in the reporting?  Is it accidental?  Or is there a plan in the media?

Will Women Support Obama?

This is a great question.  In the past primary contests these voters have broken for Hillary, at least older white women, who are very loyal Democratic voters in the past.  But will they vote for Obama?  Is the question that some of us are asking.  Some pundits are saying that if Clinton is not the nominee then this bloc of voters will not vote for Obama or they will just not vote.

IMO, they will support the Democratic nominee, but to solidify that support the DNC needs to begin NOW to start the process of securing their support.  The best way to do that is to use McCain’s most recent speech on judges against him.  He basically said that if he was president he would appoint judges that were opposed to Roe v Wade.

The DNC, if they pause slightly, will lose probably about 50% of the women vote.  I realize that they are trying to straighten out the crap flying around the Party, but they need to find the time to concentrate of women and their issues, if they want their votes.  And if they want the presidency, they need to remove head from butt and begin the process now!

Clintons And The Race Card

First, good ol’ Bubba place his foot in his mouth in South Carolina saying that Obama won because like Jesse Jackson, he is black. Ok, that is a paraphrase but the thought was there. Then the campaign had to explain what he meant. There have been other Clinton surrogates that have made comments that could be seen as the playing of the race card.

Now that Hillary is all but eliminated, mathematically any way, the campaign is using just about anything, they are grabbing at straws even heard that they said that they would use the vote in Puerto Rice as an indicator. Thinking about that….they cannot vote in the general election .

Anyway, I digress, it seems the candidate herself is trying to sway the super delegates by using the race card. Here is the part of her interview that sounds a bit racial, at least to me:

This is from the USA Today–

” ‘I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,’ she said in an interview with USA Today. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article ‘that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states (those voting in Tuesday’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries) who had not completed college were supporting me.’ “

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.

You decide–was she or wasn’t she?