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Originally Posted by melliedee
Why? This has a huge potential to blow up in the campaign's face with spectacular speed and vehemence.
Steve's criticized Hillary for sitting on the Ferraro comment and allowing her to resign without having to fire her. He has no such criticisms for Obama for doing the same because this is his pastor? Because the relationship is different? He need only "distance" himself, or worse, claim no knowledge of it?
This is the attitude that encourages the kool aid comments from the rest of the poltical world. I feel like I'm not even typing in English here...
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I really don't know why you still think this is my view and are adding the bits about claiming no knowledge of it.
I criticized Clinton for downplaying what Ferraro said, saying "oh, you know, this happens on both sides" and giving it the "no big deal" treatment, only renouncing the views expressed, when it was Clinton herself who so famously insisted that renouncing wasn't enough when the shoe was on the other foot.
I do have criticisms for Obama on Wright: I have repeatedly said he needs to move on that issue and to do so convincingly. I wouldn't say he needs to fire Wright only because Wright is not on his finance committee or officially connected with Obama's campaign in any other way (as far as I know -- am I wrong?) and Obama is not the board of deacons or whatever of the church Wright is a past or of (as far as I know) and you don't "fire" the people you are otherwise personally involved with or connected to. In that objective respect alone, the situation is clearly different from that of Clinton and Ferraro. If you don't think it's different in the way we've been discussing, with regard to a years-long personal relationship between the two as does not seem to exist between Ferraro and Clinton (as far as I know), OK, but I am not saying Obama doesn't have to do anything about Wright. I've repeatedly said the opposite.
Should he do a 2-minute riff on freedom of speech like Roni said? I don't know. Maybe. Should he finesse things more? I don't know. Maybe. Should he do something this evening or Sunday morning on the news shows or...? I don't know. Maybe. This doesn't equal "he doesn't need to do anything" though.
Steve