Loyalty has its  limits. Jeremiah Wright knows exactly what he is doing. He is trying to sabotage Senator Obama’s campaign by being a bumbling buffoon on camera. He is a very intelligent man. More intelligent than most. He however suffers a disease that afflict many in the cloth. It is not about him or Obama but about the country.

Obama will overcome his campaign of destruction but it will give those who for cultural and historical reasons or hesitant to vote outside their current comfort zone the OK to vote not for the candidate they think they should vote for but against said candidate. It is that damage that Obama must repair. He needs to start this by making a new speech in which he praises all the good this man has done in the community and immediately state that because of his confrontational tone and continued escalation of issues that are of no use to the national discourse on healing that he is taking at large, he must sever his relationship with him completely. He need to make sure this is about the man and not the church however.

It is quite possible that Rev Wright will strike back but it will be seen as what it is. A very intelligent man seeking revenge for being disassociated.

I have defended a lot of what Reverend Wright has said because most of it is quite true. Unfortunately when the messenger fails to engage those he is trying to enlighten or affect he is a failure. Reverend Wright seem more interested in showing how intelligent he is as opposed to what we as a country need to do to really become one, to really make a change in all of us. What a shame.

For those who may think that Hillary is more vetted than Obama and as such is a better candidate to handle the Right Wing of the Republican smear machine, this article is a wake up call. Oppositional research on someone with that much baggage can be daunting. 

Hendrik Hertzberg: Online Only: The New Yorker

Quote:

“I TRY to keep a low profile. Maybe you see me in the hallway but don’t know my name. Say hi to me in the coffee room but don’t really know me. I break my silence now because of this election mess”

This is insightful and funny Op-Ed. Read it in the right context. It is so funny, so true, and so sad.

Visible Man – Readers’ Comments – The New York Times

  It is never necessary to go negative as Clinton does. Senator Obama should not tarnish his new political modal. All Senator Obama needs to do is to counter all her inconsistent arguments for why she is more electable  with short, sound bitable, correct, and verifiable responses. It must also include information that forces the media to do further research on the sound bytes.

Clinton Sound bite	Obama Response Sound bite
Senator Obama should win Indiana since the state borders his state of Illinois.	Senator Clinton lost her two neighboring states Vermont and Connecticut.
Obama cannot win the white working class vote.	Obama has won more white votes than Clinton period.
There is too much we do not know about Obama so we cannot take a chance.	There is too much we already know about Clinton that Republicans will likely use on her to make her unelectable.
Ayers and Wright will alienate white and/or Jewish voters from Obama.	White & Jewish voters are intelligent and we have the resources to counteract any Swiftboating.
I will be ready from day one.	Saying one is ready are “just words” that must be examined in the context of the Iraq war and the management of one’s campaign.

Obama Camp May Turn To Negative Clinton History – Politics on The Huffington Post

Quote: During the past week, Sen. Hillary Clinton has presented herself as a working class populist, the politician in touch with small town sentiments, compared to the elitism of her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama. But a telling anecdote from her husband’s administration shows Hillary Clinton’s attitudes about the “lunch-bucket Democrats” are not exactly pristine. In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach. “Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”

Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: “Screw ‘Em” – Politics on The Huffington Post

This is a good analysis of the botched up job that ABC performed on the debate.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who has cast herself in the past few days as a champion of gun owners, had a very different message when she spoke eight years ago to the Newspaper Association of America.

‘Annie Oakley’ changes her tune – Mike Allen – Politico.com

Excellent story about Senator Barack Obama’s mother. This woman was special. It is evident that her unorthodox lifestyle was instrumental in Obama’s life and deeds.

The Story of Barack Obama’s Mother – TIME

Interesting article.

Clinton leadership a study in missteps – Jim VandeHei and David Paul Kuhn – Politico.com

Two dots make a line. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. If one constantly find themselves among people expounding subliminal messages to insight prejudice thoughts, then said person is at best disingenuous and would do anything to win or at worst is racist. If you sleep with dirty dogs, you are likely to rise with fleas.