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Obama's Autobigraphy Revisited: Dreams From a Beleaguered President
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyPsychiatric therapy is often considered a helping profession, but not right now when the press pack is off on one of its "Have Analytic Couch, Will Travel" frenzies. These days, even graying pundits are Forever Jung when it comes to offering psychological assessments of Barack Obama. Since the 2010 electoral drubbing, the president has been alternately described by armchair shrinks as confident and insecure, shrewd and guileless, resolute and timid along with -- fearless and feckless. Every press conference utterance, every account of a White House meeting, every anecdote by a presidential ...
Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Defending Obama's Christianity, Attacking Bush on Iraq
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyWhen the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. preaches, the sermon is still fiery and peppered with politics. Wright, who once served as President Barack Obama's minister at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, spoke Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the New Millennium Church, a small Baptist church that has spent the month studying faith and community. Wendell Griffen, a former state Court of Appeals judge, is its pastor. Wright used the biblical story of Elisha and the Aramean attack (2 Kings 6:8-17) as a jumping off point to discuss God, slavery and George W. Bush and what Wright called his ...
Why the 'Liberation Theology' Label Should Worry Obama
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyMuch has been made of Glenn Beck's statement on "Fox News Sunday" that he "has a big fat mouth" and that he "miscast" President Obama as a racist. This, of course, is because it makes for easy headlines like: "Beck Regrets Calling Obama a Racist." Less has been made, however, of Beck's amendment to the statement -- that President Obama was instead "a guy who understands the world through liberation theology, which is oppressor and victim." Obama's connection to such theology, which seeks to marry faith and social action, is presumably based on the years he spent years attending Rev. Jeremiah ...
Opinion: Earth to Conservatives on 'Journolist' Flap: Get Over It
By Bob Maistros - AOL News(July 26) -- So conservatives are up in arms because liberal scribes mused on the Journolist message board about scuttling the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story and otherwise providing a helping hand to candidate Barack Obama? In the journalist -- as opposed to Journolist -- community, there's a term for a story like that: "Dog bites man." Dudes, we knew before the Nixon administration that the so-called "mainstream media" leaned heavily to the port side. The famous 1981 Lichter and Rothman survey showed, for instance, that 81 percent of the so-called "media elite" pulled the lever for George ...
The Whole Truth About Shirley Sherrod's 'Sermon'
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyThe last time there was this much hot political commentary by people who hadn't actually seen the source material was probably the week that most of us first heard of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. That talk-storm had a lot in common with the media and political pratfall over Shirley Sherrod, the suddenly former midlevel Georgia USDA bureaucrat. In both cases, from out of nowhere, a heavily edited video crops up of oratory given long before. Judgment is rendered, conclusions are leapt to. And then, people started to actually search out the texts to see what was missing from the soundbites. It ...
Palin's Shocking Admission: Not Tough Enough to Be President
By David Corn - Politics DailySarah Palin can't expect anyone to take her seriously as a presidential candidate -- not after what she said this week. In recent days, the former Alaska governor and Tea Party fave has been on a tear against Journolist, a list-serv for nearly 500 journalists, policy wonks and academics, most of whom are self-identified liberals working for self-identified liberal outfits. The participants on this off-the-record e-mail chain promoted their work, debated politics and policy (occasionally quite sharply), and traded and tested ideas for articles and columns. Last month, The Daily Caller, a ...
JournoList Liberal Conspiracy Story: Scandal or Overblown?
By not in system - AOL News(July 21) -- Conservative news site The Daily Caller sparked a controversy today after uncovering private e-mails from a now-defunct listserv of liberal journalists, JournoList. The documents show journalists discouraging one another from covering the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. In one case, The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman, now of Wired.com, encouraged his peers to label conservatives racists if they make an issue out of the controversial figure. Ackerman wrote at the time: If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or ...
On Obama White House Visitor Log: Lobbyists, Movie Stars and Bailed Out CEOs
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
Obama's Wikipedia Page Lacks References to Ayers, Birth Certificate
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyFox News delivers a much more researched report of a story originally broken by by World Net Daily regarding some recent developments to Barack Obama's Wikipedia page: Critics noted over the weekend that President Obama's page on the free online encyclopedia had been edited to remove any mention of his links to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, and to allow only a brief citation of his connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - though pages for Ayers and Wright are heavily peppered with references to the president, including subsections on both pages that detail their past ...
'Barack's Name Ain't Jesus' and Other Observations By Reverend Wright
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIf you've wondered what ever became of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright--the controversial pastor who was such a fixture on American television screens before and shortly after Barack Obama walked away from Trinity United Church of Christ--wonder no more. Courtesy of FOX News, we have a Wright sighting. And, yes, we also have controversy, sort of:Speaking in a brief interview with The Associated Press before giving a speech at a civil rights landmark, Wright smiled at the mention of the name of the nation's first black president."He's like any other president," Wright said. "He's a politician and ...
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