You knew this was coming, didn't you?

1. Transparent attempt to deflect attention from her misstatements.

2. Natural question is why did she and Bill invite this guy to the White House then?

3. The "Family"?

As a Carter confidant wryly observed, "the Clintons are right there when they need you."

DAVID BROOKS

For three more months, Clinton is likely to hurt Obama even more against McCain, without hurting him against herself. And all this is happening so she can preserve that 5 percent chance.
When you step back and think about it, she is amazing. She possesses the audacity of hopelessness.
Why does she go on like this...Clinton’s long rear-guard action is the logical extension of her relentlessly political life.
For nearly 20 years, she has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to be delighted to see someone she doesn’t know, the hundreds of thousands times she has recited empty clichés and exhortatory banalities, the millions of photos she has posed for in which she is supposed to appear empathetic or tough, the billions of politically opportune half-truths that have bounced around her head.
No wonder the Clinton campaign feels impersonal. It’s like a machine for the production of politics. It plows ahead from event to event following its own iron logic. The only question is whether Clinton herself can step outside the apparatus long enough to turn it off and withdraw voluntarily or whether she will force the rest of her party to intervene and jam the gears.
If she does the former, she would surprise everybody with a display of self-sacrifice. Her campaign would cruise along at a lower register until North Carolina, then use that as an occasion to withdraw. If she does not, she would soldier on doggedly, taking down as many allies as necessary.

Parasites

The Tribune-Review, of course, is Richard Mellon-Scaife's money-losing, rabidly right-wing Pittsburgh corollary to the Washington Times.

"Obama, however, has spoken out against Wright, denouncing his more controversial views in multiple interviews and in his big speech on race relations, though he has not disavowed the church."
Obama spoke out after listening to this American hater for 20 years only after the American public got wind of it. He said nothing and did nothing for 20 years. Enough said.

Good way to stay classy, Hillary.

One of the key problems in American life is that people abandon communities and groups too easily, and only try to associate with like-minded people so as to avoid engaging diverse views. It is very sad to see HRC endorsing such fragmentation, by suggesting that persons should simply abandon a faith community or association whenever disagreements arise, and suggesting that churches are to be chosen, and unchosen, like breakfast cereals. Obama has done it just right. He expresses disagreement with some of the statements of the pastor, and condemns things that should be condemned, but does not facilely abandon his church.n A faith community is not just a personality cult for the minister or priest or rabbi. Everyone who belongs to a church or synogogue hears things he or she disagrees with, sometimes very strongly, that is no reason to leave the community/congregation itself.
The Clintons, on the other hand, are always quick to dump even close friends if they see any political advantage in doing so: we can also remember that from the 1990s.

does Hillary even go to church? does she even know the name of her pastor?

Pennsylvania, where she needs a big win on April 22nd to keep her electoral hopes alive.

A big win in PA doesn't keep her electoral hopes alive. Whether she wins or loses in PA, her only hope is for some sort of major meltdown to happen to Obama, so that the super-delegates have a sound reason to overrule the pledged delegates and give the nomination to Hillary.

They had hoped that Wright would be that blow to Obama's campaign, and Hillary is still trying to fan the flames -- and in the process finding herself out-classed by McCain, who said he knew Obama and knew that Obama didn't share those views.

In any other scenario Obama gets to the convention with more pledge delegates, with a far stronger fundraising record, etc., etc. And the super-delegates aren't going to overrule the pledged delegates in that situation. They aren't stupid, and they know that doing so without a compelling reason would rip the party apart.

Just reminds me she had the opportunity to look magnanimous during this whole situation (like McCain) and she's just continued to blow it. Pretty pathetic. But I've learned not to expect anything less from her.

Coming from the wife of the man who cheated on her repeatedly and lied about it to the country, I think she has a hard time talking about choice.

as a woman, I come closer and closer to calling her many horrid and sexist names every day. I am looking at the spines of both her and her husband's book on my shelf, and contemplating tossing them. Seriously. I used to love the Clintons, now they make me sick.

But she got solace from known anti semite, Billy Graham.

This is lower than low even for her. She should have come out in defense of Sen Obama and tried to intervene when the media were doing their hit job.

Not only did she not do that, but she and her carvilles et al probably pushed it even more, if not actually helped to start it.

Shame on you Hillary Clinton!!

So, do you Denounce and Reject your husband for inviting Pastor Wright to the Whitehouse?

"Barack Obama doesn't hate America...

...as far as I know."

She is nothing but masterful at burning bridges. Thanks for the party unity, as always, Hilldog!!

Drop out all ready! It's over!

I really, really can't believe she went there.

So she is taking the Pat Buchanan line that the caricature of Wright as practicing hate speech is true. Talk about gasoline on the fire of intra-party divisions. I think she has done massive damage to herself within the party.

The correct answer was: I think Barack was right to condemn the more extreme words of Pastor Wright. But we all know those snippets run on TV are a caricature of Pastor Wright and of his church. And we know Senator Obama does not believe those things himself. We need to stop all this guilt by association and the politics of personal destruction that have characterized right wing tactics for too long. we need to get back to a campaign about who has the best plan for America and who is most qualified to be president."

That what someone who ants to lead the democratic party should be saying.

I went to a church that started talking about race, but it went the other way, blasting black people every now and again and so I took my kids out of that church and moved to another church. That church went the opposite way, so I left that church and after the third church was preaching hate regarding gays and others that don't conform, I gave up. Haven't been to church in years and I managed to raise three loving caring racially diverse human beings. Go figure, I simply quoted from the bible. No HATE in the bible. Although I wish Hillary would have stayed away from this altogether, I don't find what she said upsetting as she would have done exactly as I did..got up and left.

Maybe Hillary should try running for Pope.

for those who don't know, Hillary's advisor during the Lewinsky time was billy graham. Billy Graham had been Nixon spiritual advisor...He got caught by using anti-semitism remarks. These remarks were recorded...Of course, up to date, the medias have not mentioned it...

Further more, she is now saying that plegged delegates, have the rights to change support, and i am pretty sure that she is know trying to steal the elections, and she will do whatever it takes to do so...Please refer to the link below

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/25/clinton-pledged-delegates-can-switch-sides/

I am so surprised that the democratic does not end this...
It really is time otherwise, it will get really ugly!!

"For Obama to explain that such sermons are common in black churches in America is shocking. It would not be condoned in white churches. I believe Mr. Obama should have rejected that church and not exposed himself or his family to it."

Hey OttoF, you should take 20 minutes out of your day and actually read/listen to BO's speech about the issue and maybe, just maybe, you'll be enlightened about the history of the black church in America.

Or...you can just keep your head in the sand, feign your outrage and shock that some blacks in this country aren't exactly fans of how they are/were treated.

Who is she to comment on someone's choice of their pastor. She could label what Wright said however she pleases, but for her to judge Obama's choice of a church?

Obama camp needs to hit Hillary hard on this.

Paint her as controlling, judgemental, small-minded. Someone who would intrude on your lives.

At the least, Obama camp needs to say: It is up to the voter to decide on my patriotism. But it is none of Hillary's business to criticize choice of my church. Ask how Hillary would feel if Obama had commented on her choice to stick with an husband with no family value and respect for the presidency and dignity of the office?

You also choose your husband.

Monica....

Blue Dress....

DNA Stains....

Pattern of Deception....

Repeated infidelity....

Impeachment over perjury....

Ummmmmm who is talking about personal choices as a reflection of moral character?

The emperor has no clothes....

The emperor has no clothes....

Fzor god's sake how long are the party elders going to let this farce continue.

Hillary Clinton is a moron.

"Bitch Isn't The New Black, It's Just The Same Old Bitch."

Wow, you guys are ridiculous!

Hillary doesn't just go to a "Prayer Breakfast". She has been going to weekly Prayer Cell meetings for decades. First, in the group of politician's wives and now in the Inner Circle of politicians themselves.

Hillary's self-described "spiritual mentor" Doug Coe advocates what amounts to Fascism and Theocracy.

Just because the facts sound alarming when written plainly, doesn't make them any more excusable for someone running as a Democrat.

wow, what a group we have here. i hope you aren't this bitter outside of your cyber-lives.

There trying to change the subject from Bosnia-gate. Hopefully MSM does not take the bait.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Are we holding Roman Catholics in America responsible for the actions of the pedophile priests? You can believe in your church and disagree with its leadership.

The obnoxiousness of her remarks is inversely proportional to her chance of winning the nomination.

Comparing Rev Wright to Don Imus?

Really?

Hmm, maybe Gen Peak was right: This does sound like McCarthyism.

"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of a black church?"

I've a feeling we'll have a nominee even before the PA primary.

Assumption: Delegates want democratic party to still remain as one party and four weeks is too long to wait.

The Bosnian War heroine officially ended the 2008 race and began her 2012 campaign for President.

Good Luck Madame....

I really don't give a beep about what she thinks of anyone's church or pastor anymore. the Constitution of America says something about that.

oh, btw, TAX RETURNS, PLEASE.

Wow! I know most of the folks posting here don't think much of Hillary Clinton, but this one really shocked me. I am really surprised that she went here. The whole CIC threshhold was bad enough, but this?? This wasn't from Wolfson or Ickes; this came from her own mouth. Wow! I try to keep an open mind. I try to take what surrogates say with ample grains of salt. But this is really, really low from my perspective. To continue in this vein, to continue with the right-wing talking points; to credit Obama with giving the speech he did and then twist the knife in this manner. Wow! That's just about all I can say.

No wonder Rush is supporting her.

Besides which, we have no way of knowing what Obama may have said to his family, other church members, or Wright himself over the last 20 years. There's no evidence that he waited until now to reject Wright's more inflammatory statements; he says he has never agreed with them. We're only aware of the denouncement now because he's in a position to make us aware of it (not that it's any of our business). Does anyone really doubt that Obama is a true patriot? Who would go through this wrenching primary process if they weren't? Even Hillary must love our country to put herself through it, although she's destroying her party in the process.

Another Pittsburgher for Obama

hillary haters..... lets please get back to the real issues.

I don't think Hillary noticed, but the Wright crap is over, Obama has consistently denounced him, he gave his big speech on racial understanding, and now she is playing the part of Bill O'Reilly (I can't even say McCain, because McCain defended Obama, as did Hucakbee). But yes, she is trying desperately to take him down, and she stayed out of it for the most part when Fox was doing the dirty work for her, mostly because she has her own sketchy church issues, but now that that didn't take hold and Obama's numbers are still strong, she is trying to revive it. Pretty pathetic.

If you want to read my original thoughts on Hillary's uncharacteristic relative silence you can check it out here:

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/03/hillarys-own-church-problem-plot.html

Damn.... I understand politically the need to create a diversion from "SinbadGate" story of yesterday but Hils, come on.... There's plenty of wood in the forest to divert the stream...Do you need to keep blowing up our buildings for that purpose?

Laszlo: Hillary "will not be my president"

"... and if I (Hillary) did make the mistake of choosing such a church/pastor, rest assured that I would throw it/him/her under the bus as soon as the association began to hurt me politically."

This really tells me something about Hillary. Her readiness to repudiate moral authority for such paltry reasons sheds much needed light on her proclivity to lie through her teeth.

Obama has consistently been in the right regarding matters of ethics and morality, and I have little doubt that Wright played a role in building his character.

So go ahead, Hill, reject your moral leaders for some transitory political expediency. It only illuminates your moral failings.

Give Hilary a break...maybe she misspoke again. Even if Wright were her pastor, she would just lie about it like she has done with everything else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0pNjhZEqdQ

Four more weeks of this garbage. At one per day, that's twenty-one more atrocities from this harpy, at least. Are you paying attention PA?

i have so had it with all these people talking about how she stayed with bill. one thing is certain no on can say what they would do in their marriage if the spouse was caught in infidelity. like the old saying goes..never say never. i love hearing a woman who have said with certainty they would divorce their husband if they caught him cheating. earth to women....most men cheat in marriage ...end of story and most women eventually find out and stay with their husbands only to eat their words.

please stop with this over critical BS about her marriage and what it means. women stay for many reasons. if the women here have never dealt with infidelity then keep your untested opinions to yourself and worry about your own marriage and relationship. that's really a full time job within itself if you ask me. let hilliary deal with her husband in her own way. last i looked he was her husband not yours.

Should that story be accurate,,,,,,, Senator Clinton has just pitched out the AA vote. It demonstrates that she has utterly no idea, or cares, what Church is about in any context, white or black, Protestant or Catholic,,,,,, and one would think people will pick up on that. Denegrating the AA church is an old passive racist slur, as in, 'Be a credit to your race and quit hanging out with niggers.'

Whatever is the Clinton campaign thinking? This sort of thing helps neither political disourse nor does it do much for the health of the body politic. The Republic is not well served by this kind of stuff.

Time for Nancy Pelosi and the other adults in the Party to call a halt to this tawdry soap opera which Senator Clinton's campaign has become.

listen to you guys. nothing but personal attacks against Hillary for the past 3 days and now you start crying again. pathetic!

Hillary: Wright "Would Not Have Been My Pastor"

Probably not, but maybe if you asked him real nice...

I find it hard to get all riled up about this statement.

I doubt many Americans or, more specifically, Pennsylvanians are smacking their foreheads saying, "Yes! This is the feeling I could never voice about this whole thing!"

Instead, I think in light of Terror on the Tarmac, which has been played up on the news, people will see this for what it is: a political shot at an opponent and an effort to change the subject.

Vile harpy BE GONE

I'm sort of offended that Hillary continues her well publicized (and often utilized) relationship to Rev. Billy Graham. She should have repudiated (renounced?) him immediately upon becoming aware of his anti-Semitic comments to his other buddy, Richard M. Nixon, as revealed on the White House tapes. Does Hillary believe, along with Rev. Graham, that "the Jews run the world" to the world's detriment? Before she starts attributing every one of Wright's theories to Obama, perhaps she should explain where her opinions diverge from Graham's and whether or not she discussed them with him during his very many visits to the White House during Clinton I.

OK AL GORE WHERE ARE YOU??????????
Time to come out and thrown Clinton under the bus once and for all. She needs to go after this.........What an abomination this monster is..AND...I won't renounce and denounce my comment...she is a MONSTER

Given time, a microphone, and a deficit in the polls, the Clintons tend to self-destruct. As her defeat nears, she will say dumber and dumber things. This is our best chance of winning Pennsylvania -- the Clintons overplaying their hand on perceived racial wedges.

Honestly, I now understand why people like Kerry, Kennedy and others did not endorse Senator Clinton. she is very selfish. she would say (misspoke)anything to be elected. she polarises everybody.

The Leaders of the Democratic party should sit her down and tell to get lost

Dear Hillary,

STFU and STFD. It's over.

And I'm _so_ over you.

tpmfreak59

When did Nancy Pelosi become the adult in the Party? Did I miss something? I do believe Sen Obama saying the same thing about one Don Imus, but hey where we be without the "Obama rules". Any and all things said by a Clinton show evilness.

I have to confess that I might have jumped the gun on Reverend Wright. After seeing the clips shown on TV I had serious doubts about his character. I still supported Obama since he denounced the remarks, but always thought it was a net negative.

I have recently watched a longer
clip of the speech and no longer think it is so bad. I can still see how people would be offended, but for myself, I don't think it is a big deal.

I suggest everyone watch the longer clip. If you still think it is reprehensible that is ok, but at least you have the clip in it's rightful context.

Oh, and let us know when you and Bill - ever - opposed the invasion of Iraq. And, Kyl-Lieberman? That also is a call for more diplomacy, I suppose?

wow...talk about desperation. it's funny in a pathological sort of way...what won't she do? meanwhile a rather prescient letter about the impending mortgage crisis dated one year ago from obama to bernacke shows his seriousness. combine that with his positions on iraq and afghanistan and you see a level of judgment that clinton plainly lacks.

Obama just got another 100 from me.

"You don't choose family" ???"

But you chose Bill, serial harasser, adulterer, and possibly even rapist.

In a way, I am some what glad that Hillary is now revealing her true nature. Up until now, despite the fact that I am an Obama backer, I never understood why Hillary was despised by so many.

Recent revelations, including her willingness to lie over and over about her trip to Bosnia, and Northern Ireland, and about about how much she actually pushed for the passage of NAFTA, and then lied to us all about her role, have shown the real Hillary behind the mask.

Now we have her coming out and openly engaging in Willie Horton type race baiting. That is the last straw.

This is the Hillary that others have spoken off. She will not accept good advise and will not see when she is actually doing more harm than good. This is the same Hillary that tried to have it all her way in 1993 on Health Care, and would not moderate her position. She has now run out of kitchen sink items to throw, so she has reached right into the toilet bowl for stuff to toss.

She is destroying her future before our very eyes. She has lost this nomination but she is too bullheaded to weight her future options. She is acting just like Bush had done about Iraq. Reality will not deter them.

She could have looked to live to run again. She lacks the foresight to do that. She is destroying all her future presidential prospects. On the other hand, it is better that we see what a fanatic she is now, instead of ending up with another version of George W. Bush.

How is it that John McCain and Mike Huckabee have more class than Hillary Clinton? They both have spoken out in support for Obama, and what has Clinton said? Nothing, until now.

I'm stunned. It seems like no matter what, when you think it can't get any worse, it does.

I hate you with every fiber of my being Hillary Clinton. I do. What you are doing to this race and to Senator Obama - the first legitimate African-American candidate - is horrendous. You will go down in history as being a bitter, selfish, cold Democrat.

As for the leadership of the DNC - WAKE UP. Gore, Edwards, Pelosi, Dean - you are all implicit in this if you do not stand up and say something, do something so this may end. I can't take it anymore. I seriously can't.

I am not into arguing with others who post comments in these forums. I would just like to add to my above post that this issue is definitely not going to go away. The Republicans will use it if Obama wins the nomination. They will use "swift boat" groups to keep the issue alive. There will be sound bites of Jeremiah Wright saying "God damn America", and spewing racist remarks toward whites. The memory of Obama's speech will be obliterated by those reminders of his pastor's views - the pastor and church to which Obama chose to closely associate himself. Obama will be on the defensive. White America will become increasingly aware that this style of fiery racist rhetoric is far more common in African American churches than they knew, and this will have a very divisive effect.

Speaking of fiery racist preaching, Fox News has dug up video of Illinois State Senator and Baptist preacher Rev. James Meeks, the pastor of South Side Baptist Church in Chicago. He is also an Illinois Superdelegate to the Democratic Convention and a supporter of Barack Obama. It's the same kind of racist preaching that Jeremiah Wright practiced. The video can be found on YouTube. This issue is not going to go away.

Other stories will eventually share the spotlight. In one of his autobiographical books Obama describes a friend in Hawaii when they were in high school. Obama describes him as someone who was always looking over his shoulder and seeing racial slights everywhere. Obama changed his friend's name in the book, but reporters eventually identified him and interviewed him. Interestingly he said that Obama had actually switched the personalities in his book. He said that it was Obama who was always seeing racial slights everywhere, and he gave an example. The friend's father was the school's basketball coach, and has never forgotten when Obama came to him and demanded an explanation for being left out. Obama insisted that the coach had left him out because he was black. The coach had to tell Obama that the reason was because Obama had missed two shots in a row.

It is stories like these, and other things that Obama has written that will be raised. Also the writings of his wife when she was in college will be examined and found to contain controversial attitudes and beliefs about race. Obama has been seen as the candidate who can bridge America's racial divide, but he is far more vulnerable in that area than most of us know. And it will be an issue in the fall. His association with Jeremiah Wright will not be forgotten.

Obama is the one who wanted to talk about race.

If Hillary Clinton's sleep deprivation causes her to hallucinate about sniper fire... heaven only knows what would happen if she were in the White House at 3am and the phone rang.

I don't think she can handle the pressure of being POTUS.

She can't even handle being tired on the campaign trail.

And this isn't the first time she's used "too tire".

Didn't she claim being too tired for not getting her tax returns released?