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...but give Pastor Wright a free ride? From the Charleston Daily Mail...

Thursday March 20, 2008
Grandma got thrown under the bus
She is "a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe," Obama said.

Obama remained silent about the Rev. Wright's public statements until forced to say something.

And even then, he tried to rationalize Wright's anti-American, anti-white rhetoric.

That rhetoric is how Wright increased membership from 87 in 1971 to 8,500 members in 2008. Obviously, there is still a market among well-to-do Chicagoans for "black liberation theology."

It doesn't speak well of Obama that he would do this to "a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world" in public.

During the 1972 campaign, it was said that Chuck Colson would walk over his grandmother to get President Nixon re-elected.

Obama just threw his grandmother under the bus. That tells me he is not the person who will bring the races together.

Racism is a two-way street.

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What bothers me more is that he humiliated a loved one for political advantage.

Come on, Obama, blood should be thicker than...you know. Let's just hope this issue is Baracky's Waterloo.

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h/t PW's The Sanity Inspetor
Dan Collins, for help with the conceptual continuity... )

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