THE BIG WHITE HOUSE
ON THE BIG HILL
IN THE BIG WHITE QUEENS CHAIR.

AND THE HELL WITH US.

SUSANM

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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn’t have done more damage to Barack Obama’s campaign if he had tried. And you have to

wonder if that’s just what one friend of Wright wanted.

Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat

next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds.

A former editorial board member at USA Today, she runs something called Reynolds News Services and teaches ministry at

the Howard University School of Divinity. (She is an ordained minister).

It also turns out that Reynolds - introduced Monday as a member of the National Press Club “who organized” the event - is

an enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter.

On a blog linked to her Web site- http://www.reynoldsnews.com- Reynolds said in a February post: “My vote for Hillary in the

Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you” to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton’s

presidency.

The same post criticized Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” theme: “Hope by definition is not based on facts,” wrote Reynolds. It

is an emotional expectation. Things hoped for may or may not come. But help based on experience trumps hope every time.”

In another blog entry, Reynolds gives an ever-sharper critique of Obama: “It is a sad testimony that to protect his

credentials as a unifier above the fray, the senator is fueling the media characterization that Rev. Dr. Wright is some

retiring old uncle in the church basement.”

I don’t know if Reynolds’ eagerness to help Wright stage a disastrous news conference with the national media was a way

of trying to help Clinton - my queries to Reynolds by phone and e-mail weren’t returned yesterday - but it’s safe to say

she didn’t see any conflict between promoting Wright and supporting Clinton.

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the actual news conference was. Wright, steeped in an honorable, fiery tradition of

Bible-based social criticism, cheapened his arguments and his movement by mugging for the cameras, rolling his eyes,

heaping scorn on his critics and acting as if nobody in the room was learned enough to ask him a question.

Wright has, unquestionably, been caricatured and vilified unfairly. The feeding programs, prison outreach and other

social services he has built over more than 30 years are commendable, and his reading of the Judeo-Christian tradition as

an epic story of people trying to escape slavery is far more right than wrong - and not something to be caricatured or

compressed into a 10-second sound bite.

But Wright should have known - and his friend and ally Reynolds, a media professional, surely knew - that bickering with

the press can only harm Wright and, by extension, Obama.

I hope that wasn’t their goal.

Source: New York Daily News

Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 9:23 am

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SO LET THEM, IF CLINTON DOES NOT WIN, HER SUPPORTERS WILL BACK MCCAIN….

FAR BETTER MCCAIN THAN OBAMA, FAR FAR BETTER!

Thanks for the infor…It just made me so mad when I saw that question…I responded..guess I need to reseach everything before I post a response.

Thanks for your post…