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Editor says, what if Hillary Clinton, ruthlessly deciding that she wants the White House at any price, leaks video footage of the notorious Jeremiah Wrights "God Damn America" sermon showing Barack and Michelle Obama cheering enthusiastically? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 2008, Hillary Clinton's fading campaign for the White House received an unexpectedly suspicious burst of energy on this day when a close inspection of video footage revealed the presence of Barack and Michele Obama, both cheering enthusistically during the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's infamous "God Damn America " sermon in which he apportioned blame on the U.S. for 9/11.
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In it to win itCandidate Obama had previously dismissed voters concerns by telling a Jewish Group that "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial. [Rev. Wright] is like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with".
That position was now untenable with the fiery Reverend's sermons being broadcast back to back on the national media. "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said in a 2003 sermon. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme".
"God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme"In addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001 that the United States had brought on al Qaeda's attacks because of its own terrorism. "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," Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.
After Clinton's inauguration, Obama was able to gradually rebuild his battered reputation through his appointment as Secretary of State. Because during four years of patient negotiation with Israelis and Palestinians, he succeeded in finding a two-state resolution in the Middle East amongst a troubled group of people that might perhaps have a degree of sympathy for the Reverend's opinions.
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~ It would be called a racist hoax.
~ And it might have ben a hoax, like the photo circulated on the Internet during the 2004 election purporting to show Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry sharing the podium with controversial activist Jane Fonda at a 1970s anti-Vietnam War rally.
In that case, the owner of the original photo of Kerry stepped forward and demostrated that his picture had been Photoshopped to insert Fonda.
Frankly, I have a hard time picturing the cool-mannered Barack Obama "cheering enthusiastically" at anything, and an even harder time imagining that someone as politically ambitious as he was would risk being caught vigorously applauding comments as incendiary as those of Jeremiah Wright.
And lastly, I suspect that even if this had occurred, the Democratic Party establishment would have done backflips to smooth it over--not because they loved Obama but because they wanted someone, anyone, other than Hillary Clinton to get the nomination. I know then-Sen. Clinton was widely portrayed as the establishment candidate, but the establishment's lack of enthusiasm (not to mention support) for her was evident from the moment she declared her candidacy. To take just one example: when Florida and Michigan moved their primaries up against the wishes of the national party and Clinton won both, the DNC ruled that their delegates wouldn't be seated at the convention. Does anyone believe they'd have done so if it had been Obama who'd won? Or even Edwards?
~ Does sound a mite hard to swallow...
~ Hillary might get the nomination, but she'd have a very hard time being elected---blacks would never, never forgive her for torpedoing "their" candidate. And being elected, with all the negatives she had, would have been an uphill struggle---even a lot of Democrats did NOT want the Clintons and their endless dramas back in the W.H.
~ Assuming Hillary got a surge in the polls, and the leak wasnt revealed, would Obama have been offered, or accepted the VP spot? Would that gain more support from the party for a Clinton-Obama ticket?
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