Politics has rules for a reason.

1)  Never threaten to withhold support after you lose

Obama wanted to change those rules.

He is a big boy he can live with the results...Currently it looks like it will cost him the nomination.

I read an article, too- How People who Listen to Soundbytes and Ignore all Context Decide Who Will be President.

You should read it sometime.

Have you ever been to a Black church?

Ask yourself why Black people were not the least bit "shocked" by what Rev. Wright said.

You know why?  We have been hearing (and saying) these exact same words for decades (if not centuries).

There are many, many more Rev Wrights out there in America's Black churches.  He is not atypical.

So, yes, an attack on Rev Wright is an attack on the Black Church.

I think another read of this might be in order, posted yesterday elsewhere on the site:

Andrew Sullivan just posted the full Wright 9/11 sermon.  I'm going to place it below so you can see those quotes in context.  You may not like the sermon as a whole or you might.  But I think it's worth reading - and passing along for others to read -- it in full.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/th e_daily_dish/2008/03/the-wright-post.htm l

"Every public service of worship I have heard about so far in the wake of the American tragedy has had in its prayers and in its preachments, sympathy and compassion for those who were killed and for their families, and God's guidance upon the selected Presidents and upon our war machine, as they do what they do and what they gotta do -- paybacks.

  There's a move in Psalm 137 from thoughts of paying tithes to thoughts of paying back, A move, if you will from worship to war, a move in other words from the worship of th God of creation to war against those whom God Created.  And I want you to notice very carefully this next move.  One of the reasons this Psalm is rarely read, in its entirety, because it is a move that spotlights the insanity of the cycle of violence and the cycle of hatred.

  Look at the verse; Look at the verse; Look at verse nine:  [rising voice] "Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rocks."[lower voice]  The people of faith are the rivers of Babylon.  How shall we sing the Lord's song?  If I forget the order ... The people of faith,  have moved from the hatred of armed enemies [rising voice]--these soldiers who captured the king; those soldiers who slaughtered his son, that put his eyes out; those soldiers who sacked the city, burned, burned the towns, the burned the temple,  burned the towers, they have moved from the hatred of [loudest voice] armed enemies to the hatred of unarmed innocents -- [low voice] the babies, the babies.

  Blessed are they who dash your baby's brains against a rock.  And that,  my beloved,  is a dangerous place to be, yet that is where the people of faith are in the 551BC, and that is where far too many people of faith are in 2001 AD.  We have moved from the hatred of armed enemies to the hatred of unarmed innocents.  We want revenge, we want paybacks, and we don't care who gets hurt in the process.

  Now I asked the Lord, what should our response be in light of such an unthinkable act, but before I share with you what the Lord shared with me I want to give you one of my little faith footnotes.

  Visitors, I often give little faith footnotes, so that our members don't lose sight of the big picture, let me give you a faith footnote. Turn to your neighbor and say, "Faith footnote."  [Voices: "Faith footnote"]

  [Begin faith footnote]

  I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday.  Did anybody else see him or hear him, he was on Fox News. This is a white man, and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end.   He pointed out, (Did you see him, John?) --a white man-- he pointed out-- an ambassador-- that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Mohammad was in fact true, America's chickens are coming home to roost.

  We took this country, by terror, away from the Sioux, the Apache, the Arrowak (phonetic) the Comanche, the Arapajo, the Navajo.  Terrorism--we took Africans from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear.  Terrorism.  We bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians -- babies, non-military personnel.  We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with Stealth Bombers and killed unarmed teenagers, and toddlers, pregnant mothers  and hard working father.  [fullest voice]  We bombed Khadafi, his home and killed his child.  Blessed be they who bash your children's head agains the rocks.

  [fullest voice]  We bombed Iraq, we killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living.  We bombed the plant in Sudan to payback for the attack on our embassy -- killed hundreds of hard working people --mothers and fathers, who left home to go that day, not knowing they'd never get back home.  [Even fuller voice] We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.  Kids playing in the playground, mothers picking up children after school -- civilians not soldiers.  People just trying to make it day by day.  We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and South Africa and now we are indignant?  Because the stuff we have done overseas is brought back into our own front yard.

  America's chickens are coming home, to roost.  Violence begets violence.  Hatred begets hatred, and terrorism begets terrorism.

  [lower voice] A White ambassador said that, y'all, not a black militant.  Not a Reverend who preaches about racism, an ambassador whose eyes are wide open, and whose trying to get us to wake up, and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised.  The ambassador said that the people we have wounded don't have the military capability we have, but they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them, and we need to come to grips with that.

  Let me stop my faith footnote right there, and ask you to think about that over the next few weeks if God grants us that many days.  Turn back to your neighbor, and say, "Footnote is over."  [Voices:  "Footnote is over."]

  [End Faith Footnote]

  [Gentle voice]  Now, now.  C'mon back to my question to the Lord, "What should our response be right now. In light of such an unthinkable act.  I asked the Lord that question Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

  I was stuck in Newark, New Jersey.  No flights were leaving La Guardia, JFK, or Newark Airport.  On the day tht the FAA opened up the airports to bring into the destinations of cities those flights that had been diverted because of the hijacking, a scare in New York close all three regional airports and I couldn't even get her for Mr. Radford's father's funeral.  And I asked God, "What should our response be?

  I saw pictures of the incredible.  People jumping from the 110th floor; people jumping from the roof because the stair wells and elevators above the 89th floor were gone-- no more.  Black people, jumping to a certain death; people holding hands jumping; people on fire jumping.  [plaintiff high voice]  And I asked the Lord, "What should our response be?" I read what the people of faith felt in 551BC.  But this is a different time, this is a different enemy, a different world,  a different terror.   This is a different reality.  What should our response be, and the Lord showed me three things.  Let me share them with you quickly and I'm gonna leave you alone to think about the faith footnote.

  Number one:  The Lord showed me that this is a time for self-examination. [cheers] As I sat 900 miles away from my family and my community of faith, two months after my own father's death, God showed me that this  was a time for me to examine my relationship with God.  MY own relationship with God-- personal relationship with God.

  I submit to you that it is the same for you. Folk flocked to the church in New Jersey last week, you know that foxhole-religion syndrome kicked in, that emergency chord religion, you know that little red box you pull in emergency?  It showed up in full force.  Folk who aint thought about coming to church in years, were in church last week.  I heard that mid-week prayer services all over this country which are poorly attended fifty-one week a year were jam packed all over the nation the week of the hijacking the 52nd week.  [inaudible]

  But the Lord said, this aint the time for you to be examining other folks relationship this is a time of self examination.  But the Lord said, "How is "our" relationship doing Jeremiah?  How often do you talked to me personally, how often do you let me talk to you privately?  How much time do you spend trying to get right with me, or do you spend all your time trying to get other folk right?

  This is a time for me to examine my own relationship with God.   Is it real or is it fake?  Is it forever or is it for show?  Is is something that you do for the sake of the public or is it something that you do  for the sake of eternity?  [voice rising]  This is a time for me to examine my own, and a time for you to examine your own relationship with God -- self examination.

Apologies to the original poster, I hope you don't mind that I placed this here.

He is not ready.  Honestly it may not be obvious to all but the split convention we are facing is mostly his fault.

Had he been very clear that he would support Hillary 100% if he lost and that Bill and Hillary are not racist this would never have gotten this far.

Fortunately his career will be over after 2008

UNLESS...

He either wins the primary and the general election or loses the primary and accepts the VP offer from Hillary provided she still offers it.

His breaking the rule on support the other guy when you lose and his supporters attacks on Clinton will doom his future outside Ill.

Well, it appears that someone will have to blink. I do not think it Obama's time. It may hurt many blacks in that regard, but it's the truth. Never have I seen anyone run for the presidency even before DAY ONE of stepping in the Senate. If Blacks want Barack Obama as president, they need to support him being vp. If not, McCain will be president, but I believe that Hillary has some divine purpose in this race. When Hillary speaks, she goes into minute detail laying out what her plans out and expects to be held accountable. With Obama's speeches, he will never leave any thing out there for which he can be held accountable for (when, where, how, and what) and I can not give Obama the presidency with mere promises of ideas--while forsaking solutions. I believe can be President, but not at this pivotal in history. It's not going to help blacks and Americans as a whole, if Obama is President as proves to be as ineffectual as Bush. No, he will not have Hillary's thought plan, strategies, or solution to "AGREE WITH" either. He'll be on his own--there will be no calls to Sen. Clinton at nigt for help. My response to Obama: Hey, buddy, you'll be president. Now, what are you doing do about all this problems, because smiling and grinning is not going to cut it.

That's the word.  We rather lose with Barack than win with the Clintons.

You must understand that psyche of Black Americans.  We grow up suspicious of every White person no matter how "liberal" they say that they are.

We all know that sooner or later, we don't match up to "them" in their eyes.

Yep anybody as long as they are men. Well kiss the vote of women goodbye. I also think white working class men leave the party.  And by the way Hispanics are not that fond of Richardson so look for McCain to pick up a significant portion of the latino vote. Sum it up , McCain takes the oath in January. Sorry we have screwed the pooch and it will be a miracle if the Democrats can save this in November.