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  • TPMtv: Wall to Wall Ugly

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 17 2008 11:59 AM | PERMALINK

    Wall to Wall Ugly

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: If you were spared watching it in real time, relive the awfulness of last night's ABC debate in today's episode of TPMtv.

  • TPMtv: '08 Roundup: Episode #18

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 03 2008 02:42 PM | PERMALINK

    '08 Roundup: Episode #18

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In today's episode we examine the contending theories for how racialized voting may be affecting the Democratic primary race.

  • TPMtv: The Argument

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 02 2008 04:27 PM | PERMALINK

    The Argument

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In today's episode we look at news that the Clinton camp is discussing Jeremiah Wright in conversations with super delegates and how the press and spinners on both sides are reacting.

  • He's baaack...Rev. Wright, that is..

    POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 27 2008 03:38 PM | PERMALINK

     

     

    MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell is reporting more inflammatory comments from Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Mitchell dug through a bunch of church bulletins, and found some disturbing rhetoric...see below for details.

    NBC's Andrea Mitchell reported on TODAY, "And now -- even more controversy involving Reverend Wright. An Internet search reveals church bulletins over the past year with controversial 'pastor pages' from Wright. Some reprint anti-Israel writings from a range of people -- from...

  • Clinton breaks the silence on Obama's pastor problem

    POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 25 2008 03:59 PM | PERMALINK

     

     

    Perhaps in an attempt to diffuse the media attention off of her Bosnia trip, Sen. Hillary Clinton began speaking out about Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's controversial pastor of 20 years. In an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Clinton said, "[Wright] would not have been my pastor. You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

    She continued, "You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (who was fired from his radio and television shows after making...

  • Obama, Wright and the Jewish Experience with Hate

    POSTED BY CHRIS BROUSSARD, MARCH 25 2008 11:29 AM | PERMALINK

    Lionel Chetwynd has published an open letter to Obama over at Pajamas Media in response to Obama's challenge to "contextualize" Jeremiah Wright's remarks. In it, he discusses grappling with his own hatred of Germans. He describes the Jewish relatives - only twelve remaining of a family of three-hundred - "The others – their loved ones, their sons, their daughters, their hopes and dreams – were gone, their lives consumed by zyklon-b gas, their mortal remains wisps of smoke from a Büchenwald chimney." He...

  • How Clinton can still win

    POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 24 2008 02:48 PM | PERMALINK

    Ever since Iowa, it seems like the media has been calling for Sen. Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race. She’s bounced back several times—even after a winless streak in February, only to carry Texas, Rhode Island and Ohio the following month.

    Now that the Jeremiah Wright story seems to be fading, the media is back to counting Clinton out. Clinton’s political death is always a good back-up story for the talking heads to dissect ad nauseam.

    But in all seriousness, with the apparent Florida and...

  • Geraldine & John, Sitting in a Tree

    POSTED BY CHRIS BROUSSARD, MARCH 21 2008 03:43 AM | PERMALINK

    Geraldine Ferraro is talking to the Daily Breeze again

    this week, objecting to Obama's equivocation between her and Jeremiah Wright. "To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable. ... He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred."

    Here's what Obama said:

    "On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's...

  • TPMv: '08 Roundup: Episode #17

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MARCH 20 2008 02:15 PM | PERMALINK

    '08 Roundup: Episode #17

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: So where do we stand in the presidential race? Have Wright and the CinC questions hurt Obama? It's just a snapshot. But as of today the answer looks like a pretty clear yes. In today's campaign 2008 roundup we survey the numbers.

  • I Have a Speech

    POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, MARCH 17 2008 04:44 PM | PERMALINK

    Ben Smith is reporting that Obama plans to deliver 'a major race speech' tomorrow:

    Barack Obama will give a major speech on "the larger issue of race in this campaign," he told reporters in Monaca, PA just now.

    He was pressed there, as he has been at recent appearances, on statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

    "I am going to be talking about not just Reverend Wright, but the larger issue of race in this campaign," he said.

    He added that he would "talk about how some of these issues are...

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