Even Huckabee "got it"
Right-wing blogs just exploded.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....229/479797

HUCKABEE: [Obama] made the point, and I think it’s a valid one, that you can’t hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do. You just can’t. Whether it’s me, whether it’s Obama…anybody else. But he did distance himself from the very vitriolic statements.

Must say, I see their point…Obama needed to publicly recognise Wright's "hateful theology" (majorly embarassing for him!), but the way he did so (i.e. the grandmother) was inappropriate. Also a little like being hit over the head with a blunt object.

a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world That is not exploiting, and it's not "pretty low", it was a tender example of how, even our loved ones, even ourselves have to come to grips with the certainty of bigotry. The editor was clearing digging for anything that could remotely give a small minority of people, a reason to hate the speech. This must be one of 5 articles criticizing the speech. On nearly every other news outlet last night, the consensus was this was an epic speech.

Besides, and I hate to put it in these terms, but it's definitely not the first time a political candidate has used a relative as a marketing tool. Virtually every candidate since the dawn of time has styled and presented their relatives to the media for judgment. I don't even think that's what Obama was doing here. I think it was just the most honest way to answer a difficult question, as well as a kind of savvy way of addressing the issue without alienating voters. Well played, Obama.

Okay, Wall Street Journal, you're right — his poor poor grandmother has been exploited … but it was still a great speech.

It's not the dollar signs that make them blind. Their monocles just need new prescriptions.

Eff Obama. Viva la Hilary.

He didn't exploit his grandmother. He gave us an example of race issues from his own life.

Well it's not like he even wrote the fucking speech. Elect the speechwriter!

I was about to write something about the paper but then my friend Matt just said it perfectly to me:

"I SO loathe the WSJ editorial page. They want to eat the poor."

is that a joke, Stoney?

Barack Obama did write the speech.

cdd: It looks like the dude in that photo is considering eating the poor.

Stoney: That's just stupid. You don't know how it works. When you're a speechwriter for a gifted and intelligent orator, you help do research and yes, may write a line or two here or there. But someone like Obama writes his own shit! Quit being jealous.

SnackySmores: Totally! Like he's thinking 'White meat or dark meat today? So much to choose from with this recession I helped cause and all!'

Interesting since every time a political figure tries to keep his personal business private the truth still comes out. Spitzer, anyone? Not even remotely the same situation but that was a private matter.

He didn't want it out there but now it is and it's all over the news and every blog and entertainment show. The new Governor admitted to affairs even before he took office. Had he not then it would have come out later.

My long winded point is that he used the situation with his grandmother as an example he thought people could relate to. We all have someone in our family or a friend who has some predjudice.

My crazy grandmother carries a whistle because she thinks all men want to rape women. She grew up in a convent and that's what they were taught to believe. See, I used my grandmother.

If you're going to run for office people are going to look into your private life. They want to know who is sitting in the big chair. Not just the public person but the private person as well. He needs to get over that.

i think just about everyone in America, has at least one family member that's a little racist. i know i do. that doesn't make me a racist by association. the same applies to Obama.

Teflon candidate( (sounded like Nixon to me)

good lord, cdd. Now I'm going to have nightmares about scary old stock brokers trying to kill me…

i agree that perhaps mentioning his grandmother being racist was a little unnecessary, but i understand why he did it. just like juju said, "he used the situation with his grandmother as an example he thought people could relate to. We all have someone in our family or a friend who has some predjudice."
that being said…
am i the only one who has never heard of "black theology"?

what sounded like Nixon, chelsea? his voice or his words. and if you mean the latter, can and will you cite the Nixon speech to which you're referring?

or maybe you're talking out your ass. that could be it.

I thought he was trying to relate how he still loves his grandma even though she was a tad bit racist and he still likes his pastor even though he is a tad bit crazy. Just because someone says stupid shit doesn't mean you have to cut them out of your life - if that was the case I would be utterly alone.

FAKE . also he talks down to people. if it was anyone else he be done, overwith,. REMENBER I don't have a interest in this . I'm a outsider looking in,no emotions, no self interest, no pass guilt'I sure I see it from a diferent prespective than someone in the U.S..

I see no real choice for you guys Hillary Obama McCain

chelsea, how the hell would you know? you don't even live in the United States.

I don't understand anything from that pragraph. Why would he be done with? Look at all the shady people Bush had been involved with. He won one at least one election fairly. If not for those people he'd probably never have been president.

Anybody who was on his side is not going to turn against him because of this and he probably picked up some more suppoters.

Same as you WORLD TV, FOX NEWS, CBS ABC NBC CNN BBC
plus others

Well, mae. You don't live in Chelsea's cuntry where everyone is equal and there is nothing but freedom and fairness everywhere you turn. No repression and all the politicians on an even keel with the people of the land.

juju i did say that. It does not matter to me who is elected .This is just how I see it.I know a lie when I hear it he's lying IM SORRY I have an opinion

did =didn't

it doesn't matter to you but you care enough to tell us your opinion is they all suck? Thanks for sharing.

sorry obama girl

I wonder if CUNTry was on purpose.

As someone in a liberal, white, female seminarian and a strong supporter of Obama, I feel like I have to interject about black theology. You cannot take bits and pieces of it and expect to understand the entire black experience. Most white people don't even realize that the theology espoused in their churches reflects a view of white males formed over a long period of time. All theology is formed in a specific time and place and reflects the experiencs of those writing it. The black experience in America is hard. Blacks have been discriminated against, enslaved, brutalized and still victims of racism. Black theology speaks to this experience because theology of white churches does not, just like feminist theology speaks to women's experience. There is a reason I can only be ordained in a few denominations. Also, the candidates should NOT be judged on religion. We are supposed to have separation of church and state!

Just one question the u.s. is on it's way up or on it's way down in your opinion?
1 world influence
2 economical
cuntry? I didn't attack your COUNTRY.
that shows me alot

I wonder if Obama really even gives a big hooha about church. I know he says he does but I think all politicians have to say that these days (for whatever reason). What if he's like the majority of people I know and just go to church to do something family-like with their kids on a Sunday morning and to meet and greet with their community. I'm "catholic" and I don't agree with 75% of what the pope says.

Thank you, manbearpig. I hate throwing out a joke only to have someone think I don't know how to spell, "country".

one last thing all over the world the politicians
are the same. they do what ever ,they need to do or say to get elected,and it's never for the good of the people

Not only do all of us have relatives who are, in some manner, a bit racist, we ourselves are too. Just saying you aren't racist because you have friends or a spouse who is a different race, or because you NEVER utter racist comments, does not mean you are completely free of bias/racism in your life. Obama was addressing the human aspect of racism, not the legal ramifications of expressing one's racism for the purpose of causing harm to another person. We can't Botox and fake-tan ourselves into achieving world peace, you know. Somebody's got to represent reality, and the rest of us have to be able to recognize it.

Aw, Jujee. I think I'm in love with you.

I think I need a break from all the harshness today. Later hags.

Hail Rumple.

My prediction is McCAIN will be your next president. We will see in the fall how perceptive that prediction is, coming from a outsider and all

i hate to agree w/chelsea, but i, too, think mccain will be the next president.
such a sad cuntry we live in.

I feel the curse today.

i will kill myself in the face if mccain is the next president. true story!

I dont think it will be McCain, this cuntry is tired of ignorant self-serving Republicans.

Oh and I feel the need to make cuntry fried steak for dinner.

If McCain wins, I really want to move to Europe. Who's with me?

How does he have time to write speeches in between smoking crack and sucking dick?!

i've read–and written–some stupid shit before, but, wow.

you win, stoney. and by win, i mean lose.

I think people are confusing racism with prejudice - we're all a little prejudiced, but few of us are racists.

Agreed, Tangerine. Unfortunately, though, most people are too stupid to know the difference.

Also, Stoney, I really hope that you aren't registered to vote, because you are a real piece of work.

Stoney does this cuntry proud. And by proud I mean deeply ashamed.

he's still upset Sug took the Haiku this week

Two faced and really rather sad how he can't admit ..okay. I am wrong.

*snicker* @ mae

Get a GD sense of humor. This is a GOSSIP BLOG. It was a joke, retards.

that speech was horrible. funny how you'll believe any BS he says just because he orates it nicely. Doesn't matter how you say it, fluff is fluff. If that was a white man he would be forced to resign. He didn't address the issue at all just ran circles around it. No way anyone can be a part of a church 20 yrs and be good friends with the man (practically family) and not know. You know in private he agrees with the man. Racism is racism.