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Not 'my pastor'

Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:36 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Clinton decided to weigh in on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, telling the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

She continued later, "You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (who was fired from his radio and television shows after making racially insensitive remarks), saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that. I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving."

On her sniper gaffe, "I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke." 

On earmarks: "I am proud of my earmarks. Part of the reason that I won New York by 67 percent are my earmarks."

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Hillary Clinton just spoke about Rev Wright to get the spotlight off of her and her lies about Bosnia.

GO OBAMA!!!
Naked, Blond ambition...with dark roots.
<a href="http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=gywad">Liar Liar Pants on Fire!!</a>

It turns out that Clinton didn't "MISSPEAK"

She was READING her speech when she said:

"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base"

<a href="http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=gywad">Look at the speech on her website and you'll see that that LIE was in her prepared remarks!!!</a>


How can you say you "MISSPOKE" if you are READING the lines?

If Hillary is MISS POKE, does that make Bill MR POKE?
Clinton has active surrogates on her payroll, who are not only members of Trinity United Church of Christ, but also call Reverend Wright their pastor. One of the surrogates, who campaigns frequently for Clinton, is Rev. Marcia Dyson. Rev. Marcia Dyson and her husband, and Obama supporter, Rev. Dr. Michael Dyson are frequently on MSNBC and CNN promoting their candidates. In addition, Clinton's  campaign manager, Congress Woman Shiela Jackson Lee, attends and is a member of a church where Black Liberation Theology is preached every Sunday for each of the 3 services on Sunday--Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston Texas. In addtion, Rev Wright has preached at Wheeler Ave. Baptist Church for the past 20 years.  Clinton is a hypocrit and needs to clean her own house before she criticizes someone else's.
John Doe;

We understand that You are racist but and you hang up your sheet for a moment.

Hillary has forgotten that she chose her husband.  She stuck by him when he was unfaithful to her.  Some would argue that she should have left him.  But sticking by him was her CHOICE.  Not because she had to, but because she wanted to.  How is sticking by a whoremonger different from not throwing your pastor under the bus.  Hillary should have never mentioned this relationship.
On her sniper gaffe, "I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke."  I only hope she doesn't lie to foreign dignitaries and governments if she is the President of the United States.  If we don't trust her, why should they?  

Do you have a Pastor?If you did you need to talk with him about all of your sins.The lies are sins,and to stand in front of camara and do it with a straight face.and act like you are not.You must have a heart of stone.I know you don't care about anyone but your self.The Clinton team"me,myself and I"
Can you post the full context her comments came from?  When did she say she won by 67%?  MSNBC's own website indicates she won with just 57%.  

The win-at-all-costs liar gets uglier by the minute.

Obama '08
This issue of Obama sitting in that church for 20 years listening to this anti-American venom without saying a word about it will spell his sure defeat to the Republicants in November.  He cannot win a general election.  This will make the swift-boat ads look like a preschool picnic.  They will DESTROY this man.  He should withdraw NOW, before he destroys the Democratic Party right along with himself.
Will someone from Pennsylvania please enlighten me on the thinking of your Democrat electorate?

I don't get it.  Why and how is Hillary so ahead in th polls there? Why do you love her so much when she clearly has no problem demolishing the Democratic party in order to secure the nomination? Why do you forgive her lies about "Experience," on which her campaign is based?

Why don't you see that Obama supports Wright's congregation -- not Wright's rhetoric -- because he has spent years supporting that poor African American community?  Why don't you applaud his honesty about cultural divides and race?

What makes those Democrats in Pennsylvania Democrats? I really, honestly want to understand. Thank you.
I agree you do pick your pastor, but you also pick your husband. It doesn't take courage to stay with a man that cheats on you time and time again. It takes a driving need for power and decision that he will help get you there. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and your house Hilary is fragile crystal that McCain and his clan will shatter in the election. So I guess we should thank you now for your backstabbing and dirty politics that will get this country 4 more years of the same, because you just lost the democratic vote even if you do buy the nomination.
Consistent as ever.
PORK the rest of the country-the heck with the rest of
  the United States because porking for NY gets ME the
  senate election. It's only about ME!
 
  Notice she didn't say that it brought a lot of aid and benefits to her CONSTITUENTS and the State of NY.
Nooo-it got ME something which is all that matters to the Clintons. Transparency for sure!

 Hillary, go home-wherever that is.
Of course she is trying to resurrect that news story.  She is desparate to change the subject from her LIES ABOUT HER FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE to Reverand Wrights comments. It is unpatriotic of her to create stories around significant events regarding the history of the United States.  Specifically, Ireland and Bosnia.
Hilary, YOU ARE A LIAR and I am sorry I voted for your husband in the '90s and if you are the Democratic 'cheat'--- opps I mispoke ---'choice', I will not vote for you even if Obama lifts your hand in victory.  You misspoke and misspeak all the time and interject hate in in a very vicious way. Rev. Wright was indeed invited by your husband to the White house and he stood whith him at his lowest hour and now you turn on Rev. Wright for votes.  You are a typical politician and loathesome.  You will unite the right against you if you STEAL the nomination.  Pennsylvania is a very racist state and loves liars also if they vote for you by such a wide margin. Go home and let the true victors - McCain and Obama - continue the race. Show some class for once in your life.  
My God - are all these posting done by Obama-camp? Or is MSNBC on Obama site? I am a democrat and I know of at least five other democrats that will not vote for Obama because of his pastor association. Do you people trust Obama judgment or sincerity. Can you trust he is a patriot? I hope he does not win the nomination - he has zero chances in November.  
Today's excuse - "Sleep Deprived". Clinton will be sleep deprived for the 3am call as well.

Wonder what tomorrow's excuse will be?  Any guess folks?
What's this new spin on the Bosnia sniper-fire lie that she's telling to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review? "I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke."

During which retelling was she sleep deprived? Does she not recall that she told this more than once? She seemed pretty alert and positive about it in the clips I've seen.

Does sleep deprivation cause Hillary to invent dodging bullets and running for safety with her teenage daughter? Maybe she shouldn't be up at 3am answering any phone calls if lack of sleep causes hallucinations and delusions of danger.
Lisa, New Britian CT I can't agree with you more. It takes a politician to "misspeak" here and there but it takes a president to make a speech as Obama did on race. It seems like CT has our stuff in order, sadly other places in the U.S. like Ohio and Rhode Island can't see Hillary for what she is.
This is ignorant. How can you say he listened to hate for 20 years when the lynching by the media only has 3 sermons taken out of context in an eight (8) years span. Did you attened church every Sunday for one (1) year let alone twenty. How about the FACt that he didn't even preach every sermon.
Clinton and her campaign have lied sooo much and the media NEVER calls her on it. North Ireland that's a lie. SChip another lie she only has paid surrogates to back her lies up not facts. The stories have all been proven to be lies. NAFTA more lies. We need to not be blind and wake up. She has no morals or character.Period and anyone who thinks otherwise prove it. I can show time and time again where she has made "misstatement" flip-floped etc.
I am tired of people saying that Obama sat there and listen to "hate speal" for 20 years. I am sure that speeches like the one played over and over agian were not given every Sunday. I can say that I am sure because I have been to the church. In addition this typicaly white person thing. Before he said, that he said his grandmother was not racist. Do you get that not racist. People wake up, stop being spoon fed inforamtion from the "news" and make a intelligent decision.
Democrat, you are a typical ignorant Obamanut. Clinton did won by <b>67%</b> in 2006.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/NY/S/01/index.html
Democrat, you are a typical ignorant Obamanut. Clinton did WIN by <b>67%</b> in 2006.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/NY/S/01/index.html
DO YOU WANT, REV. WRIGHT IN THE WHITE HOUSE AS OBAMA'S SPRITITUAL ADVISOR? I DO NOT. DO YOU WANT HIM TO OFFICIATE HIS SWEARING IN?   IF OBAMAS NOMINATED , WE WILL HAVE TO PUT UP WITH MANY OF HIS QUESTIONALBE ASSOCIATES, SOME WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT YET.

 
i m so sick of women bashing hillary for bills infidelities....how about bashing obama for child abuse for allowing his daughters to go into that church with reverand wright...........
Obama supporters blame Hillary for destroying the Democratic party, they do not realize that it is Obama who has torn this party apart. Obama is part of the dirty politics of Chicago and is using the same dirty, personal assault tactics used in Chicago. You are all so blinded by his speeches of inspiration, you cannot see the forest through the trees, of course that is what his campaign manager David Axelrod, a man of no integrity, intends to draw in voters with lies. Republicans dragged Hillary through the mud during the 1990's superbly and still to this day even Democrats believe their lies and Axelrod just built his campaign on the same perverse slander and Democrats are not willing to forgive. It sickens me to see the vile hatred for Hillary from "fellow Democrats". It is this hatred that has torn our party apart, and Obama has not done one thing to stop this slander and hatred. Why hasn't Obama shown us how to unite? I voted for him to be my US Senator, I am still waiting for "hope and change" since 2004, it hasn't happened yet. Obama has not finished his work for his Illinois constituents and has not shown his leadership to be the leader of the Democratic party by uniting us.
Hillary Clinton is a liar, flat out.  Mis-speaking involves confusing details or events...not making them up entirely.  If the media cannot find any situation where she actually did run from a plane under sniper fire, then the 'clear recollection of that trip' she spoke of is a bald-faced lie, not one she confused with something else.  It sounded good, it enhanced her image she thought, so she said it.  Another indication she's willing to say or do anything to get elected.  Her scorched earth strategy will pave the way for a McCain victory, the country be damned.  If she plans on riding to the rescue in 2012, she's more delusional than her Bosnia story.
Wow,  Hillary your politics & tactics date you as badly as did your past spin against other women who simply told the truth about then Pres. Clinton.

Most of America was more than just a little ashamed of the Clinton treatment of women. Try explaining to daughters why Hillary Clinton should advocate for any female considering your willingness to attack as past Pres. Clinton continued bad behaviors with females much his junior. And then he lied.  Sorta 'you know' like you have just lied over your Bosnia experience.  

Your being ready day 1 test per Clintons' ...who is the better lier?  The better race baiter?

You & the past Pres. should run on the same ticket.  Put the best liers together.  
John Doe;

We understand that You are racist but and you hang up your sheet for a moment.


cc, Boston (Sent Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:20 PM)

cc, how do you know a racist when you see one?

ANSWER: PICK THR WRIGHT ONE!!

For 20 yearrs Obama sat and heard the hate spewed from the Pastor Wright!
-----------------------------------
Send your racist remarks to the Wright one..OBAMA!
This is what I suspect the superdelegates are hearing from Senator Clinton to convince them to overturn the math.

"It's the vast right wing conspiracy that wrote those words on my paper where I had my original speeches and the vast right wing conspiracy that made me with secret mind control say the same story over and over again.  And it's the vast right wing conspiracy that has led all these Democrats to vote for someone other than me.  And the voodoo magic of the vast right wing conspiracy that made everyone interpret all the insulting, offensive, off-handed remarks by my husband and campaign representative.  Blame the vast right wing conspiracy for all of my failures in management.  Because it's not me, it's not my fault and so you should vote for me because I'm ready on day one to shift all blame for the failures of my presidency to Congress.  Oh, wait, your a member of Congress?  Doh!!! That darn vast right wing conspiracy gets you everytime.  Hee-Hee, I'm human some of the time."
AFTER BEING CAUGHT IN A BALD FACED LIE, HRC SAYS SHE MISSPOKE AND TRIES TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT. LET US NOT FORGET IT WAS CLINTON LIES THAT LED TO AN IMPEACHMENT THAT RESULTED IN 8 DISASTROUS YEARS OF GEORGE W BUSH.
Obama fanatics - apparently you unaware of your own candidate. Website after website I read ignorance and blind faith. If any of you actually followed your candidate, or watched the debates, you would know that Obama committed the biggest "mis-speak" when he STARTED the "racial tension" in S.C. by stating MLK signed the Civil Rights Bill into law - hence, the historically factual correction "it takes a President" (Bills' statement was also of fact). Not only, did he not own up to it, or transcend by defending his opponent in explaining the "root" of her "out of context" statement -was him-; he was complacent -not a leader- while race issues hijacked the election - in his favor, of course.
I highly doubt, Hillarys "mis-statement" will have the same kind of impact.
How can any of you argue that Obama not be judged by his associates or "bone-headed" judgements when obviously you judge Hillary by hers. In fact, that  has been the Obama campaign basis of attack for months.
Let's see now, it seems he "mis-spoke" his financial support from Rezco, his income is higher than claimed, he claims stances- he failed to vote on,
he used stereotype to answer whether Bill was the first Black President- "we'll have to see him dance". He's continued to use sexism in subtle ways by being dismissive, using term "silly time" and has even demeaned his wife (a nurse) -in that, she wouldn't have judgement on such "important things" because she's just "a wife" and somehow attepting to compare Michelle to Hillarys'wife/first lady status while dismissing her long political history before that. He even appeared in an SNL Halloween skit that referred to Hillary as "a witch" multiple times (she did not demean him in her appearance on SNL)
He stands by Gen.McPeaks cries of "McCarthyism" while both have been seemingly silent in regard to patriatism issue during the Bush years, not to mention issues of constitutional law - his specialty.
He stands before you claiming not to be of the establishment - while his campaign and Senate years are staffed by Dascle and associates;Howard Dean internet geeks; supported by womanizer Kennedy; and by John Kerry of whom he spoke on behalf of in 2004 -then stating, "again and again, we've seen him make the tough choices when easier ones were available" in reference to Kerrys' vote FOR the war.
Again, and again Sen. Obama we see you NOT make the tough choices.                                 Beating Hillary up for mis-stating her foreign relations experience only causes a stalement - because Obama has no record either; or did I miss the chapter from his childhood when he negotiated truces on the playground in Kenya.
The "hard truth" about people not having health care has less to do with income, than choice and irresponsibility. If a poll were taken, many, if not most, uninsured would likely answer that they have cable tv, cell phones, don't use birth control and probably don't pay their child support. I speak from my experience among the working poor- although I 'choose' health insurance and car insurance over cable tv and 'know' that my car insurance only went down when a state mandate was instituted.I am even tainted, by having sold Rev. Wright/Trinity dvds at a desperatly needed job in order to have health insurance (although, I was unknowing of the "hate speak").
If for 20 years,he was apparently accepting and complacent of the "hate speak"; and made donations of $22,500 at Rev. Wrights church whose publication also named "hate monger" Farrakhan "Man of the Year". In 20 years he was unable to influence or change the "culture" of the Black Church
or help Michelle transcend - then, how will he "change the culture of Washington"?
If Obama were in Hillarys' shoes,trailing by a mere 100 delgates - are you really so naive to believe that he 'would' step aside?
But then again, you buy into this arguement that Rev, Wright has no more influence than that "old" uncle you were embarrased of, or that it is about differences of race and culture rather than the 'tolerance of hate' that is being questioned and should be questioned- always. We do not forgive hate crimes because of their "root" or criminals because of their upbringing or cults for inspired brainwashing - and whose common denominator are words.
We are all desperate for a President that can speak English without embarasing; but we must also LISTEN to the words, no matter how pretty they sound.
To my ears, the only thing 'I am' hearing, in this questionable message of hope, from Obama and his followers - is hypocrasy and audacity!
...and stop stealing my yard signs ! Very unpatriotic!  
If Hillary's excuse for her fictional account about her landing in Bosnia is that she was sleep deprived,
how can we believe that if she answered the White House phone at 3:00 a.m. she wouldn't "mis-speak" because the early call would be depriving her of sleep?!?
How can Hillary be so Perfect about Obamas Pastor ???  I mean I don't see how the Clintons can have any Room to Judge anyone on Moral Fiber Issues , Please give me a Break , and lets talk about why our economy is dwindling away , Please >>>>>>  heres a Topic , how they messed this up .....................


Oil for Food Scandal ;  A Clinton Administration  failure , goes to Hillary claiming the Experience , but not wanting to engage foreign nationals for more Transparency .............why ?????
The Oil-for-Food Programme  ;    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-for-Food_program          , established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986) and terminated in late 2003, was intended to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to rebuild its military.

The programme was introduced by United States President Bill Clinton's administration in 1995, as a response to arguments that ordinary Iraqi citizens were inordinately affected by the international economic sanctions aimed at the demilitarisation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, imposed in the wake of the first Gulf War. The sanctions were discontinued in 2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the humanitarian functions turned over to the Coalition Provisional Authority.

As the programme ended, there were revelations of corruption involving the funds.



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