What evidence do you have to back up that conclusion?

“Obama’s interactions were front page news because up until that time, Obama enjoyed a relationship with the national press that bordered on romantic.”

And you think McCain hasn’t? Have you been paying attention to reality?

“As for what’s more incendiary, that’s a subjective viewpoint.”

Hagee blamed Katrina on the gays. Wright quote an expert who said 911 was blowback. No rational person can think the latter is as incendiary as the former.

You’re right. That is funny. Remind me: who is the Vice President?

Well, maybe respect is not the right word.

‘A Godless theology of hate that no one dared try to stop for a thousand years produced a harvest of hate.’

All Muslims are programmed to kill and we can thus never negotiate with any of them. From an NPR interview Hagee gave to Terry Gross in 2006:

JH: All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/28/hagee/

Hardly seems subjective to me. I left out the part about starting a war with Iran to hasten the End Times.

And I am telling you that will change. Obama’s interactions were front page news because up until that time, Obama enjoyed a relationship with the national press that bordered on romantic. In addition, Obama has known Wright for nearly 30 years whereas Hagee and McCain don’t go back in time. As for what’s more incendiary, that’s a subjective viewpoint.

In a related note, I was watching WGN Chicago news and I realized that Rev. Wright is a mainstream person in Chicago life. There was an obituary of a beloved Chicago judge and as an aside of no particular gravity, they mentioned that Rev. Wright was officiating,without linking him to Obama. Rev. Wright has been a part of the Chicago Christian community for years and is by no means a fringe character (unlike Hagee). If speeches like the one excerted on Hannity were in character, he certainly wouldn’t be so mainstream.

Now, what does any of that say about Barack Obama? Well. NOTHING.

But again, I am amused at the left being so flabbergasted that Obama’s opponents are attempting to link him to Wright. It’s like they’re pretending that something like this has never happened before.

Dkelsmith, the same can be said about John Hagee. Once again we have a big time double standard especially on the part of our host. Oliver has posted no less than FIVE entries about John Hagee and John McCain. Yet he resorts to the typical cop-out and cries “RACISM!!” when an ad that links Obama and Wright is aired.

Like I said before, you lie down with dogs, you’re going to get fleas.

And McCain is a fool for saying he doesn’t want to run that kind of campaign. Why? The Democrats are going to do the same thing. All anybody has to do is read the Democrats.org website to gain insight as to how they are going to go after McCain. It won’t be pretty and whoever the Democratic nominee is, won’t condemn such ads.

Oh, and of course we all need to denounce and reject Thomas Jefferson: “Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever…”

And yet. And yet. We never see a clip of Wright where he’s talking about the audacity of hope. 3000 hours of sermons by some estimates, and all we ever see is the same 30 seconds.

And what’s so wrong with the quote Obama used for a title? Is everything Wright ever said to be viewed thru that one 30 second clip? Why not exactly the other way around? Why not view everything thru the lens of his Audacity of Hope sermon? I mean, if “god damn America” can dirty everything he says, the exact same logic, but in the other direction, means “Audacity of Hope” gets to clean everything he has ever said.

Unless, of course, one small quote can’t be used to represent everything a person has ever said….

You missed Foley? As my grandpa would say, “Well, THERE’s yer problem. You got them thar selective eyes, boy!” You seem to just not notice any major news story that doesn’t match the facts you want.

Anyway, I missed where you drew some line and started qualifying your assholes. “Those guilty of this, we denounce, those guilty of that, we don’t.”

Bill Clinton keeps putting himself in the public eye, front and center of things — where he compulsively needs to be. He’s often more prominent than his wife on the campaign trail; OF COURSE we’re going to talk about his returning to the White House, even as First Husband.

J.

I am not sure about your supposition about McCain though, Oliver. I don’t think he thought it was too soon, he recognized that this ad was idiocy and wanted to distance himself from it. I respect McCain for many reasons.

J.