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"In his much praised speech on race today, Barack Obama sold out his grandmother by essentially accusing her of racism...”

Because talking about someone’s strengths and faults is equivalent to selling them out? Oh, come on. You’re really stretching here. Sure, it’s an election year, but calm down. You don’t need to demonize your candidate’s opponents in order to support him.

Charles is right on. You’re showing your ax needing some grinding too transparently here.

Pathetic attempt to equate the hate speech of a community leader speaking publicly and the failures of an elderly woman expressing her private thoughts to loved ones.  He is a bastard, period.

Barack Obama pimped out his still living grandmother for political gain.

This is an all time low in American politics.

Pig. Pig. Pig. Pig.

Dave and Bronislawa,
The problem is that you both bear such enormous enmity toward Rev. Wright for ever saying anything except “God bless America, white people are always so nice to blacks, U.S. foreign policy can have only beneficial effects, etc.” that for Obama to compare anyone to Wright is, for you, to compare that person to the devil. Obama doesn’t feel that way about Wright; he sees Wright as wrong in his views and the way he expresses them—particularly, as wrong for believing that racism is endemic and permanent in America and its government—but he doesn’t see him as evil. Therefore to Obama, there is nothing wrong in analogizing his white grandmother’s racist thoughts to Wright’s. Now, you can criticize Obama, as so many have today, for not being as utterly horrified by Wright’s statements as you are. But criticizing him as “pimping out” his grandmother for political gain is simply wrong. Don’t mistake your own hatred toward Wright for Obama’s feelings about him.

I must confess, I simply did not see his reference to his grandmother as throwing her under anything.

My thoughts here.