Clinton aide: Obama pushing Wright photo "pathetic"

[papau]

Clinton aide: Obama pushing Wright photo "pathetic"

Responding to the Times's report that Obama campaign had "provided" them a photo of Bill Clinton and Jeremiah Wright (which had surfaced a bit earlier here and elsewhere) , Clinton spokesman Jay Carson emails:

"The Obama campaign put this photo out? How pathetic," he said. "Less than 48 hours after calling for a high-minded conversation on race, the Obama campaign is peddling photos of an occasion when President Clinton shook hands with Rev. Wright. To be clear, President Clinton took tens of thousands of photos during his 8 years as president."



Trinity Church is a major Chicago institution making Wright a prominent pastor who was invited to a White House gathering for religious leaders on September 11, 1998.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Could you make that a little LARGER, please?

[rocktivity]

37. dupe, sorry n/t

..

[billbuckhead]

2. I thought Reverend Wright didn't like the Clinton's

What a BS artist that flashy dressing preacherman.

[marmar]

3. Wright or the Clintons?

Or all of the above?

[JVS]

11. Maybe he felt used after Bill's "Prayer breakfast for the sake of everyone forgetting my blowjobs"

[Divernan]

59. Did Hillary's conservative, all-female prayer cell attend?

Probably not.

[VolcanoJen]

4. Just another Photo Op

Are the Clintons gambling that none of us remember the Prayer Breakfast? That none of us watched the news that day? That Wright wasn't rather carefully chosen by the Clintons themselves to hear Bill's penance?

And, could you make that photo bigger? Please?

[stillcool]

22. I think the poster is...

I love it! The Prayer Breakfast and Bill's mea culpa. They can take excerpts from that and play them 24/7 on all the networks. Then Hillary can talk about 'good judgment'.

[Arkansas Granny]

53. I don't know who decides the guest list at these functions, but there were about

100 preachers and church leaders there at that breakfast.

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This is the speech delivered by President Bill Clinton at the annual White House prayer breakfast on Friday, September 11, 1998, to an audience of more than 100 ministers, priests and other religious leaders assembled in the East Room. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was also in attendance.

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/clinton-sin.htm

[Carolina]

57. while that is true

the bottome line is Wright was one of the 100 who was INVITED so he can't be all that bad!

[stop the bleeding]

5. Kitchen

sink
:beer:

[Stephanie]

6. Obama campaign response >

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Clinton_aide_Obama_pushing_Wright_photo_pathetic.html

Obama spokesman Bill Burton responds:

After their top surrogates pushed this story line and Senator Clinton's campaign outlined this as a central strategy in her plan to overturn the will of Democratic voters, I can see why they wouldn't want a photo out there that shows the kind of hypocrisy we've all come to expect from their campaign.

[GarbagemanLB]

9. I love it! GObama!

[Coexist]

13. ouch! quick and lethal

his campaign is amazing.

[Rageneau]

46. Yeah, amazingly nasty, mean-spirited, deceptive and snarky.

This response was devoid of class, information, explanation, illumination or anything else other than spit-nasty GOP-style politics.

First, the Obama campaign pitifully floats a pic so innocuous they should have been ashamed of their own audacity. Nearly every half-assed famous person in America got their pic taken with Big Dog in the 90s. Even Richard Mellon Sciafe!

Then, when called on their juvenile, naa-naa-naa tactics, their response is equally insulting: they call Hillary a hypocrite (without explaining why) and falsely accuse her campaign of wanting to overthrow the will of the people. IOW, they refuse to answer a legitimate question and instead lash out with illegitimate, nasty-tempered, nastily phrased charges.

Yeah, that's amazing all right.

Amazing, because I've never before seen such sleazy behavior from a Democrat's campaign.

[thewiseguy]

15. I love you Obama!!!!!!

Hahaha what a good response.

I am glad that the Obama campaign released this photo to the press.

[Catherina]

24. "the kind of hypocrisy we've all come to expect from their campaign"

:patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot:

[JVS]

26. The fact that the clinton camp is so upset reveals their attitude toward this

If they were not so busy trying to convince people Wright=devil, they wouldn't be bothered by this innocent event

[slinkerwink]

40. great response!

[joshcryer]

45. I think Bill Burton should be reminded that Obama got over the top with Rep. and Ind.

[Kira]

52. He is his spiritual advisor

that is totally different than meeting with him and many other religious leaders. (Which he felt he didn't have any other choice in doing) Give me a break. It is pathetic that they are circulating this photo.

[Carolina]

60. not simply a photo-op

Wright was ONE of only 100 others INVITED. So a) he can't be all bad and b) the Clintons are hypocrites to try to use Wright as key to why Obama shouldn't be the nominee.

Yes, Billary is PATHETIC!

[rodeodance]

7. Pure hypocracy by BO

[KittyWampus]

10. your girl was the one pushing the smear and character assasination of a good man. OWN IT

you have pushed that GOP filth for a week now.

[papau]

17. Hillary pushed nothing about Wright - and the news folks have noted that fact

[thewiseguy]

19. Yes Hillary never pushed the Wright issue to superdelegates!

That story was obviously a big fat lie.

[slinkerwink]

31. oh, yes, she did.

She's making the argument that anyone that belongs to a black church is unelectable for higher office.

[billbuckhead]

30. Nobody's allowed to call Hillary's opponent somebody's "boy"

More double standards about bigotry from the Hillary haters.

[Stephanie]

56. Hillary HERSELF boasted, "I'm your girl!"

That's a direct quote. Or haven't you been following the news?

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[billbuckhead]

12. Just another pathetic social climber trying to shake hands with the president

Just another pathetic social climber trying to shake hands with the president in public, but a bigot when on his turf.

[JVS]

14. Just a member of a group of ministers that Bill begged Jesse Jackson to bring so that he could...

do his whole repentance act. Wright was part of a group that was doing Bill a favor.

[EFerrari]

You know it. Mega church, mega opportunity. n/t

[tekisui]

48. And he's Black, too!

[pocoloco]

20. LOL

Tell me who invited who again.

[Carolina]

61. Wrong!

Wright was ONE of only 100 others INVITED not "Just another pathetic social climber."

So a) he can't be all bad and b) the Clintons are hypocrites to try to use Wright as key to why Obama shouldn't be the nominee.

[Europeanblogger]

16. Nobody cared about the picture of Rezko and Hillary

And nobody will care about this picture either:

[papau]

23. I agree - over a million photo-op photos are out there - all mean nothing. You can't

go to dinner in a DC beltway home and not see photos of the president of the day with the host hanging on the wall.

If the home owner is in the same party the photo might be signed

[VolcanoJen]

28. Did Bill send Rezko a thank-you note for attending his random photo-op?

Produce that thank-you note, and then you'll be able to claim that Wright's appearance at Bill's "Lewinsky Penance Breakfast" was just a random, "everybody gets their picture with the President" photo-op.

[workinclasszero]

18. OMG!!! Look at the Hillbots cryin foul!!!

You f'in HYPOCRITES!!! baHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!!!!!:rofl::rofl:

Take everything you have smeared Obama with over this guy and apply it to yourself Hillary!!:popcorn:

[Europeanblogger]

25. He didn't baptize Clnton's children, or marry him to Hillary

One picture vs. marriage, church attendance, spiritual leader, audacity of hope, calling him his uncle, baptism, etc.

Humongous difference.

[billbuckhead]

32. The Clintons didn't go to this dysfunctional church for over a decade

[JVS]

36. Are you saying that Bill Clinton would invite bad clergy to a prayer breakfast on the...

occasion of his mea culpa about the Lewinski affair? Why would he invite bad people?

[billbuckhead]

47. Bill didn't know them for 20 years

[workinclasszero]

35. He was in the Oval office meeting with the president of the united states!

Shaking hands and makin small talk with Bill!:rofl:

Its readily apparent that Hillary approved of the good Reverend Wright then. After all she was co-president and claims the 8 years of Bill's term as part of her bogus 35 years of experience.:shrug:

The massive hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton once again rears its ugly head!

[RamboLiberal]

38. And were you attending the church????????

How the hell do you know what kind of man Reverend Wright is???????? I just watched nearly 7 minutes of the "God Damn America" sermon and that snippet showed the way this sermon is portrayed is way out of context to what Rev Wright was actually saying.

Amazing how no church members have popped up to damn their preacher. Only the F'in media and the Clinton supporters who will smear a good man by 30 seconds or less of snippets taken from hundreds of hours of sermons!

[leftynyc]

50. I don't condemn him for the

out of context quotes shown in a loop for the last week. I condemn him for his church choosing to honor a cretin like Farrakhan. Feast your eyes on this lovely man's words.

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/farrakhan_own_words2/on_jews.asp

I don't hold it against Sen Obama as I don't think he has a bigoted bone in his body but his spiritual advisor embraces a hate monger.

[ampad]

39. LOL

Really? Humongous difference? Hillary got y'all working overtime tonight. I bet the good Rev never had to pray for Obama's soul after he lied under oath and committed adultery. Some of you seem to forget that this picture is just another gateway to bring up Lewinsky. Or maybe you do know that. :rofl:

[Catherina]

21. Right. "With tears in his eyes, President Clinton told a roomful of clerics"

JANUARY 27, 1998



"I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"




SEPTEMBER 11, 1998

The Starr Report is released to the public

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pr/media/1998/98news23.pdf



SEPTEMBER 12, 1998

With tears in his eyes, President Clinton told a roomful of clerics this morning that he had sinned, speaking just hours before the world was presented a painstaking account by prosecutors of when, where and how.

Addressing an annual prayer breakfast at the White House, Mr. Clinton drew on the New Testament, the Yom Kippur liturgy and Ernest Hemingway as he made his most abject confession yet of personal failure, while declaring that he would defend and redeem his Presidency.

‘’I don’t think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned,'’ he admitted softly, saying that after resisting expressions of contrition he had reached ‘’the rock-bottom truth of where I am.'’

For the first time, Mr. Clinton also asked for forgiveness from Monica S. Lewinsky, on the day that the details of their intimate relationship — details that he had denied and struggled to suppress — poured out through the Internet, whose wonders as a tool of communication he has so often extolled.


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4D61731F931A2575AC0A96E958260&scp=2&sq=clinton+prayer+breakfast&st=nyt


OCTOBER 28, 1998

[ampad]

34. Oh shit!

This is too funny. The Repigs can kill two birds with one stone with this. They can use the so called racist Rev Wright and the Lewinsky scandal rolled into one, one, one 527! :rofl:

[RBInMaine]

27. And Team-Hillary using Wright flap to try and sway superdelegates makes a billygoat puke.

[EFerrari]

29. Beth: Clinton aide is a punk.

lol

[Seabiscuit]

33. How does a picture equate to sitting in church for 20 years listening to Wright's rantings?

Give me a break Obama ... move along and get over it. The picture is a silly picture to begin with anyway because you can see a line of people waiting to shake hands and take their pictures with the President. Obama campaign must be desperate.

[redstate_democrat]

42. No Obama's campaign isn't desperate.

The fact is, the Clinton campaign TRIED to exploit a complicated issue by relying on the bigotry and idiocy of people and got burned. If Wright is this so-called radical, black separatist, why in THE hell was he invited to the WH? FACT: Wright is a highly respected pastor who has done wonderful things in the Chicago community and around the WORLD. The Clintons RELY on black churches and preachers, but it was SO EASY for them to throw one under the bus in their pursuit for the nomination. This should be KNOWN to all. This is making its way around to all those black congregants sitting in "radical" churches across the country. Goes to show you how much the Clintons care about black churches...only when they need something.

HYPOCRISY is thy name.

[wileedog]

43. It doesn't

It means the man was worthy of inviting to the White House and meeting the President of the United States.

How many people do you know who have had that honor? How many of them are dangerous, racist, Anti-Americans?

It validates what Obama said - there is more to the man than the video that gets played incessently 24/7 in the MSM.

[rocktivity]

41. What's "low-minded" about pointing out that Bill Clinton thought "highly" enough of Wright

to invite him to his White House--especially when Hillary is claiming that Obama's association with Wright is what makes HER more electable? She could have stopped the entire controversy cold by revealing her association with Wright and joining Obama in supporting and forgiving him. But by staying silent, only Obama got hurt--until now.

:crazy:
rocknation

[Forkboy]

44. What do you expect an aide to say?

People shouldn't even listen to them, on either side, for "facts". Their job is to spin.

[tekisui]

49. Good to see that the Clinton's are with us in solidarity.

[Life Long Dem]

51. Jeez you messed this post up.

Obama's pushing so you can push it. See how that works? That's team work "my friend" :sarcasm" No such thing.

[robbedvoter]

54. Yup. After all, "Hillary ain't never been called a Nigger"

And did Wright mimick Bill & Monica before or after this breakfast?
What's the point of this photo?
Is BO trying to say Wright is so poisonous, it compromises anyone in a room with him?
I thought it was his dear uncle, a man of many good deeds.
How is pushing this photo fit into "I can't distance myself from him" and all that love they share? I am confused.

[indimuse]

55. Obama Campaign Provides Photo of Rev. Wright Shaking Hands With Bill Clinton

How about Hillary's lead in WV????


Obama Campaign Provides Photo of Rev. Wright Shaking Hands With Bill Clinton
By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 10:31:09 PM EST
Tags: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama (all tags) Share This:
I'm not sure whatpoint the Obama campaign thought they were making by providing the New York Times with a picture of Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a room full of people at a 1998 Prayer Breakfast at the White House shaking hands with Bill Clinton.

In providing the photograph to The New York Times, the Obama campaign appeared to be trying to divert some attention to the Clintons after a week in which Mr. Obama’s relationship with Mr. Wright has left him facing one of the biggest challenges of his campaign. There is nothing in the picture or the note that addresses whether Mr. Clinton had met Mr. Wright prior to the White House meeting or whether he or Mrs. Clinton knew anything about Mr. Wright’s views.

The Clinton campaign had this response (received by e-mail, no link)

"Less than 48 hours after calling for a high-minded conversation on race, according to the New York Times the Obama campaign is peddling photos of an occasion when President Clinton shook hands with Reverend Wright. To be clear, President Clinton took tens of thousands of photos during his eight years as president."

Update: Comments now closed.



Hello, West Virginia: Hillary 55%, Obama 27%
By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:44:27 PM EST
Tags: West Va '08, Hillary Clinton (all tags) Share This:
A new Rasmussen poll out today on West Virginia, which has its primary on May 13.

Senator Hillary Clinton holds a huge lead over Senator Barack Obama in the West Virginia Presidential Primary. The first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the race shows that Clinton attracts 55% of the Likely Democratic Primary Voters while Obama is supported by 27%. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure.

Clinton is viewed favorably by 72% of West Virginia’s Primary Voters, Obama by 53%. By a 48% to 31% margin, the West Virginia voters believe Clinton will be the stronger general election candidate against John McCain.

More...http://www.talkleft.com/

[MethuenProgressive]

58. Is there a photo of the Clintons taking Chelsea to listen to Pastor God Damn America every Sunday?

Now that would be a photo the Obama Camp would love to have out there!

[beachmom]

62. It is the Clinton campaign which is pathetic for pushing the Wright story with superdelegates.

Pardon me while they get the "vapors" for something they would have done in a Hollywood minute.

[K Gardner]

63. I guess no one thought this might be an attempt to REHABILITATE the damage done

to Wright by the whorehound media and on blogs like this. Oh, course not.