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SENATOR CLINTON RECALLS
The news just keeps getting better for Hillary:
A Michigan man facing federal criminal charges of illegally working for Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Intelligence Service says he met with Hillary Clinton at the White House in May 1996.
In a 1997 interview with this reporter, Muthanna Hanooti said that at the meeting, Mrs. Clinton was “very receptive” to his request for an easing of the American sanctions on Iraq that were in place at the time ... Asked whether Senator Clinton recalls the meeting ...
“I remember he had snipers,” Mrs Clinton replied brightly. “Snipers everywhere!” Despite her woes, the wife of Monica Lewinsky’s former boyfriend has vowed to take it to the floor, which could provide for the first interesting Democrat convention since 1968. She’s currently chunking along at 37 per cent approval, although Barack Obama isn’t doing so well himself:
Obama’s former minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, also came under fire this week when reports surfaced that he had written an article for Trumpet Magazine, run by his daughters, in which he said that “white supremacy is clearly in charge in America.” The article also quotes him referring to Italians’ “garlic noses,” and characterizing Jesus’ crucifixion as “a public lynching, Italian-style.”
There goes the Italian lynch mob vote. Obama has lately sorta kinda distanced himself from the Reverend:
"Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church."
That’s hypothetical change you can believe in, people.
Oh, yeah, “hypothetical” is the key word with Obama. First, last, and always.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 28 at 12:04 AM • permalinkThere goes the Italian lynch mob vote
Pretty much ruined his chances among the God fearing lynch mobs in the south too I expect. Oh hang on a minute......
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 03 28 at 12:26 AM • permalinkObama Makes His Case,
And Democrats Swoon…If I was born
Poor in a slum
I bravely might
Have overcome.My racial nerves
Might still be raw
If lynch mobs lynched
At Harvard Law.I might have walked
If I had heard
My preacher say
A hateful word.My lessons might
Have been hard-won;
I’m proud of what
I might have done.Reverend Wright in 1988 - “Those white honkies are oppressing us, torturing us, still enslaving us and now are giving the black man AIDS. When will this racist, ugly nation be free of its white supremacists?”
Barack Obama in reply to Wright - “That’s a bit over the top but he’s retiring in about 20 years’ time so I’ll just let it go.”
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2008 03 28 at 02:07 AM • permalink#8, PW
John McCain seems to be the only one who’s coming out of this pre-election carnival with any cred at all. At this rate, he may be a shoo-in come November.
As for Obama’s comments re his preacher man, would they be known as “spin” in the USA, or is that term just used here in Oz?
Barack Obama is beginning to remind me more and more of Mark Latham. For that matter, so is Hillary Clinton.
wife of Monica Lewinsky’s former boyfriend would make a great addition to Hillary’s entry in Who’s Who.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 28 at 04:16 AM • permalinkRev. Jeremiah Wright ... referring to Italians’ “garlic noses,” and characterizing Jesus’ crucifixion as “a public lynching, Italian-style.”
So this “lynching” thing, see, I used to think it was a matter of trumping up a buncha bullshit charges against some person, or maybe even actually believing that person to be guilty of some bad crime, but either way, it involved bypassing the whole judicial process thang and just plain stringing him up. Now I find that the garlic-nose version of this requires the additional steps of dragging the accused back and forth between two sets of ecclesiastical and secular authorities to get a resolved set of rulings about it.
You know, this word “lynching” seems to mean something different every week. Last week “lynching” turned out to be merely a matter of exposing and verbally criticizing a hate-tripping preacher.
So the parameters of what constitutes a “lynching” are apparently very very elastic. I hardly know what to think.Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 03 28 at 05:25 AM • permalinkBarry Obama -
Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church."
Pastor Wright acknowledged that his pulpit harangues had deeply offended people and were inappropriate? If he did I haven’t heard of it.
If the good reverend wishes to apologize and repudiate what he said, let him do it to the cameras and not just to Obama, alone, when politics require him to do so.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 28 at 05:29 AM • permalinkFrank Devine on John McCain
ability to create followers.While Wrong Wright, O-man, Hillbilly show ability to create folly-ers.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 28 at 05:41 AM • permalinkI, for one, am now a Hillary supporter since discovering tht she bravely endured sniper fire, and held off
three, four, ten jihadis with only a nailfile, and grabbed the controls of the plane after the pilot was gravely wounded by antiaircraft fire over Cincinnati, and threw herself on a grenade in order to save the Constitution.You’d think more people would know about these things.
The article also quotes him referring to Italians’ “garlic noses,”...
So Cubans are “jalapeno noses” and Jews are “matzo noses”?
I just don’t know, it sounds so un-progressive to me. The O-Man is supposed to be uber-progressive, and this is his spiritual mentor?
I’m going to have to sit down for a while to think this through…
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 03 28 at 11:58 AM • permalinkI think “garlic noses” may be a corruption of “Gallic noses”, i.e. the big nosed people of Gaul. I doubt the Rev. Wright and the loonies who wrote this idiocy know this though. They probably genuinely think that “garlic noses” is a standard, if somewhat odd and rather hateful, reference to people of those regions. Or its a rather-too-clever-by-half pun. I’m gonna go with the first one on this, and say they are odd, hateful, not-overly-bright people.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 03 28 at 02:37 PM • permalink...garlic noses,....
This from the folks that have a problem with references to certain physical attibutes of theirs. Seems to me there was a brouhaha about nappy headed someone or other…
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 03 28 at 04:43 PM • permalinkIt’s a pity that Obama
Had to ditch his foster mama;
Then, to make his progress faster,
Had to shun his Mentor Pastor.He will not wear the lapel pin
That flags loyalty to the land he’s in,
Says US people won’t embrace
Until he wins the biggest race.I wonder if this man’s for real,
Or pulling wool over our eyes,
The one who claims all hurts to heal
Is careless with his family ties.
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The “change” that Obama keeps talking about is the loose coins in productive peoples pockets which will be redistributed to the lazy, indolent and feckless.