Reverend Wright plans an October surprise

David Williamson

The chickens are coming home to roost...

a j scott

Hope Obama will stuff the stupid obnoxious Wright, assuming the former has really seen the light.

Verity

The wheels are coming off so fast that pretty soon Obama himself is going to be under the bus.

We know he is being coached in expression and gestures by George Clooney, for God's sake. How desperate is that? And he's going to have the biggest Hollywood contingent ever supporting him. Flyover country just loves all those rich Hollywood lefties. Uh-huh.

(I'm sorry, I don't have a link for the following. My friend sent it to me inline.)

May 5, 2008 issue of Newsweek "These questions need to be answered, have waited for over 90 days and still no reply. So you want to make a change, to what?"

My friend sent me the whole thing online, without a link. But I'm going to send it to Pete and see if he will allow it to go up.

Hysteria

looks like the bus wasn't quite big enough.......

Benjamin

It takes one serious kind of a moron to call "October surprise" something that is announced ... in August.

Verity

Hysteria - They're jacking it up right now.

Bob

You right-wingers are desperate for something, aren't you? By the time this book comes out, folks will realize that Rev. Wright is no more of an issue. He'll be seen for the egomaniac that he is. Meanwhile, Obama's message will continue to resonate, and the Obama Express will keep chuggin' right on down the track!

Ginger Tippins

seems like a lot of the Obama supporters have breathed in the stupid dust spread by the insane media. An Obama presidency will introduce communism to these idiots and they won't like it much -- neither will I.

Joe Johnson

I'm soooo glad Obama is the democratic candidate. It's almost as if the democrats WANT McCain to win... why else nominate the most liberal jackass marxist in the history of the country? He can't keep avoiding his positions, he does have a record of his opinions and positions, and as soon as Americans start to care about the election (ie Sept-Nov) the facts will sink his ship.

Jeffrey Bennett

It must be wrong to be so white - er - I mean Wright. The guns of august will lead to the hunt for red October... but then McPain is no better. Choice? What choice!

L Diller

Seen the light A J your the one that hasn't seen the light, this buffon went to this church for 20 years...duh

Doc savage

Message to BOB:

As a "right winger" I was desperate for something. And then low and behold, I got this book! My only fear is that he'll be seen for the egomaniac that he is. Meanwhile, Obama's message will continue to resonate, and the Obama Express will keep chuggin' right on down the track!
JEEZ…You left wing loons are S-T-U-P-I-D!

Matt G

"Meanwhile, Obama's message will continue to resonate, and the Obama Express will keep chuggin' right on down the track!"-Bob
You mean Osama Insane Express will CRASH and Burn, I hope Hillbilly Back stabs him in Denver!!

Verity

Bob - thanks for volunteering to be a moron! You are a true community citizen!

Bob says: "By the time this book comes out, folks will realize that Rev. Wright is no more of an issue."

"No more of an issue" than what, dear?

"and the Obama Express will keep chuggin' right on down the track!" ... to under the bus! Those boys are jackin' up that bus to accommodate all the bodies! They're callin' in reserves to jack up that bus!

Verity

"Wright’s performance at the National Press Club back in April showed that Wright revels in the national spotlight and doesn’t care if his performances hurt Obama."

Why would he care? Does Obama care if he trashes Rev Wright?

Clearly very not.

Benson

"It takes one serious kind of a moron to call "October surprise" something that is announced ... in August."

There's a moron here, but it's not James Forsyth. The upset isn't in the announcement of the book. It's the fact he'll be releasing the book and promoting it in October. That's when it'll get attention.

charles

Ouch. This is bad news for Obama. The thing that struck me about Wright in April is that he was relishing his ability to hurt Obama after Obama dissed him.

C Ingram

Im just wondering if Rev. Wright is really going to through Obama under the bus and let loose about all his ties to the Chicago Democrat Machine. Lot of dirty little secrets coming out of the Rev will definately do alot of damage.

dan fisher

i would never vote for this far left commie loving creep and all the left wingers in hollywood this is why i don t go to the movies no more yeah obama trains rolling alright right off the tracks

dan fisher

i would never vote for this far left commie loving creep and all the left wingers in hollywood this is why i don t go to the movies no more yeah obama trains rolling alright right off the tracks

Hollowpoint

It appears that one egomaniacal blowhard is looking to steal some thunder from another.

Any reminder of Obama's radical, corrupt history and associations will sink him further than he's already gone- and no amount of scripted, empty speeches will change that.

The empty Hope and Change rhetoric is already getting old. Voters will recognize that delivering speech in 2004 plus writing two books about Obama's favorite subject (himself) does not a qualified President make.

Throw in a helping of Wright, Ayers, Rezko, and Obama's earmark payoffs for campaign contributors and he's done for.

Thanks, Reverend Wright!

Ben Franklin

Obama is done. With or without Wright putting out a book because America is starting to look through the media hype and they're seeing Obama for what he really is: an elitist, a globalist and a socialist. He scares the sh*t out of most of America. If he doesn't scare you then your liberalism truly is a mental disorder.

Richard L. Kent, Esq.

" Obama's message will continue to resonate, and the Obama Express will keep chuggin' right on down the track!"
--while the passengers thereof are all failing to take into account that the bridge is definitely OUT up ahead. Americans don't like false messiahs. We really, really don't.

Verity

Bob says: "Obama's message will continue to resonate, and the Obama Express will keep chuggin' right on down the track!"

And we all look forward to it meeting the oncoming train of reason and toxic anti-socialism. (It would be a robot train with no passengers on board. We wouldn't want any humans or animals hurt in this scenario. If some lefties were aboard through agression, that would not be our fault and we would commend their souls to the diety they don't believe in, shortly to be made into a movie: (Death, The Final Insult!)

JIm

Bob-as the polls have the race essentially dead even and even more to McCains side when considering likely votes, we right wingers are not desperate at all. Seems you fear the truth of Obama's relationship with Wright.

BERT CONVY

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Obama... anything that keeps this snob out of the White House... fine by me.

*bert

Jack Klompus

"You right wingers!" Hilarious, Bob. The Obama Express is even better. Do you go around making that stupid O symbol with your hands while you walk down the street?

Samir

This has been debunked. McLame is getting desperate if he's resorting to planting fake stories.

Quintin

Come on Wright...help Macain WIN WIN WIN!!!!!!

GS London

Come back, Hillary! Come back!

Gypsy Man

This book tour by Reverend Wright is extremely bad news for Obama. McCain should rev up the attack machine now and start talking about all those questionable characters in Obama's background. People like Rev. Wright, and Father Pfleger who make Obama look like what he is--dangerous and extreme.
I love the expression coined by www.notwrightforamerica.com that Obama is not WRIGHT for America. McCain should go with it!

Ian C

What a strange coincidence that the Oh So Reverend Wright has a book to sell in October. I don't suppose it has anything to do with being "a good moment to.." promote a book!

Just what America needed. What a patriot! Well done Rev Wright.

Jack Burton and the Pork Chop Express

Let's not damn the book by its cover. I for one am looking forward to the spiritual and political guidance that Mr Wright will impart. At this time in our nation's history, we have never needed such clear-eyed analysis of what's wrong and how to fix it.

Wright-Clinton 2012.

Pete Hoskin

The link to the Newsweek piece Verity mentions is this:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/134316

Gun Toting Bible Thumper

I have the distinct impression Wright is unhappy about being thrown under the bus and is doing whatever he can to sabotage the Obamessiah's campaign.

Guy Incognito

Is it too late to be the first to say of Obama "He couldn't see a bus without trying to throw someone under it"?

Verity

Thanks, Pete! I commend everyone except Bob to go to the link Pete kindly posted to get the questions George Will addressed to Obama in Newsweek. Even if nothing else damned Obama, this list of questions would. Especially as Will addressed them to the elitist Obama three months ago. Do read them. They're incisive and perceptive.

BTW, do drippy people really go around making an O with their hands? Please tell me this is not so!

Verity

I must say, I'm beginning to warm to Rev. Wright.

Verity

Gun Toting Bible Thumper - I think Rev Wright is doubly unhappy about being thrown under the bus because Obama threw a white woman (his mother) under the bus ahead of him.

ThunderMonkey

Rev. Wright put himself under the bus. Any person that thinks they can be in the spotlight or want the spotlight and have a camera pointed at them and believe they're going to get away scot free is delusional and egotistical.

Rev. Wright is just a spotlight whore and should be treated as such.

'Nuff said. Nothing to see here. Let's move along.

Roland S. Martin

Daughter: Rev. Wright NOT publishing book in October

http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/daughter-rev-wr.html

by Roland S. Martin
Essence.com

A New York magazine cover story last week reignited the debate over Rev. Jeremiah Wright when it stated - without attribution - that the former pastor of Sen. Barack Obama was releasing a new book.

But his daughter, Jeri, told me today that the story is absolutely false.

"The only book we're working on is the history of Trinity (United Church of Christ) and I haven't even started editing that," Wright told Essence.com.

After I reached out to her, she called her father, who is teaching and ministering in Ghana (I ran into him last month when I was in the West African nation) and said he "laughed" when she asked about the book.

"He said that he also got an email, but was unable to respond since he's in email hell," Wright said, meaning in a place in Ghana where it's difficult to send and receive email.

"I asked him if he was writing and he said, 'Nope. I'm not publishing anything. I'm not going on any book tours.'"

Rumors about a pre-election book by Wright have been surfacing for the last few months, and intensified since the New York article.

It even has caused a stir among Obama supporters, who were also chasing down the rumor to see if there was any legitimacy to it.

I even got calls from executives in the publishing world inquiring as to whether the story is true.

Jeri Wright says when her dad returns to another part of Ghana, he will issue a formal response to the New York article reiterating that what they reported is false.

Manfred Weibel

DEBUNKED!
http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/daughter-rev-wr.html

Y'all can go focus on some other trifle now.

Dade

Calm down all ye Obama-haters, don't get yourself so worked up so soon...
There's no Jeremiah Wright book coming out. At least the man himself has just said so.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Wright_not_writing_book_in_Ghana_email_hell.html?showall

Despite chatter to the contrary, October won't be Jeremiah Wright book tour month.

Roland Martin reports:

[Wright's] daughter, Jeri, told me today that the story is absolutely false.

"The only book we're working on is the history of Trinity (United Church of Christ) and I haven't even started editing that," Wright told Essence.com.

After I reached out to her, she called her father, who is teaching and ministering in Ghana (I ran into him last month when I was in the West African nation) and said he "laughed" when she asked about the book.

"He said that he also got an email, but was unable to respond since he's in email hell," Wright said, meaning in a place in Ghana where it's difficult to send and receive email.

"I asked him if he was writing and he said, 'Nope. I'm not publishing anything. I'm not going on any book tours.'"

Bill

Bob says "You right-wingers are desperate for something, aren't you? By the time this book comes out, folks will realize that Rev. Wright is no more of an issue. He'll be seen for the egomaniac that he is. Meanwhile, Obama's message will continue to resonate, and the Obama Express will keep chuggin' right on down the track""
No Bob we aren't desparate. We just have common sense which is something you ultra lefty's and your candidates have none of!

DK

poor show. This story has been completely debunked. Heilemann had no attribution and Wright has rubbished it.

Victor Komaschka

A county more suited for Wright and Obama is Communist China or Russia. They all hold the same doctrines.

turgor101@yahoo.com

Ha Ha...loser Republicraps proved wrong again.

http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/daughter-rev-wr.html

sMitty

The clear choice is to vote Third Party, either Libertarian or Constitution.

Paul

The Reverend is really man touched by the devil. He's full of pride, greed, and also a hyprocrite.

SG

So why is this guy trying to knock Obama off the tracks?

Chris Gadsen

Bob: "Meanwhile, Obama's message will continue to resonate, and the Obama Express will keep chuggin' right on down the track!

No...but what exactly IS his message other than broad platitudes?

Verity

SG - Because Obama threw him under the bus.

Wilfred

Rev Wright is the whitest black guy I've ever seen.

ChiTownGuy

Rev. Wright does not want Obama to get elected. Wright is building a multi million $$$ home all bought and paid for by his "blame whitey" racist rhetoric. If Obama gets elected by the white majority, how can he promote racism. If Obama does not win the election, Wright will then be able to say...see, I told you so. America is racist.

Anti-Sheep

Everybody who is somebody will write Michael Savage on their ballot.

Waclaw Borcz

The truth needs to come out, although I don't trust the rhetoric of Rev. Wright - staunch follower of liberation theology, that Nicaraguan communists experimented with in last century during Daniel Ortega years. Mindful of Mr. Obama association with (as he described his father figure), that he “soaked in” Rev. Wrights philosophy, and theology, we have a right to learn more from this source. Therefore this book may enlighten some.

escott

Get a life. All you can do is print lies.

Verity

Escott - you have any more dated slang to fling around scornfully? "Get a life" has such a comically antique feel to it.

Aslo, Escott, could you tell us why you think putting something online is "printing"? Pringing is done with a printing press. On-line text is done on the internet. If you are going to fling dated scorn around, you should have your technologies clear in your own mind.

Speaking of "lies", I note that one of Rev Wright's adult children has denied that he is writing a book. So that's a 'yes', then.

Ryan Field

I don't care who Roland Martin spoke with and who told him there's no book. A respected man like The Rev. Wright cannot be tossed under the bus, before the entire world, without speaking out sooner or later. And, he deserves a chance to speak out, too.

Of course when he releases the book is up for grabs, but I'd think it would be in his best interest to release it in October to get more sales because Barack Obama won't win this election. People who have never voted in their lives are now registering and they will be lining up in droves to vote against him.

So if the Rev. Wright wants to redeem his excellent reputation, he'd better get it out in October.

Verity

Ryan Field - I agree that the Rev Wright cannot be tossed under the bus lightly. I also agree that being thrown under the bus probably didn't sit well with him, as he seems to be an individual with a strong sense of self worth.

I also agree that his optimum window of opportunity for making large sums from his book will be the month of October.

As you rightly say, after November Obama will sink from view as fast as John Kerry.

In fact, he should make it early October, just in case Obama doesn't even get nominated.

Swing Voter

After 20 years with the Rev. Wright it seem that Obama is either in denial the truth of the effect he had on him; or the American voter just don't care because they have moved so far Left wing that they are really Marxist Communist. Either way this will bring about some major in the policies of the U. S. Government. With one being the possible outsourcing of U. S. companies, especially if Obama beginnings to tax as he said he was planning.

ObamunistsSuk

Obama the Marxist Bigot and Anti-American will be joined on the road with his 20 year old teacher and mentor the very racist Communist Rev Wright...I can only hope that Louis FarahKKKlan, the Nation of Islam and Bill Ayers and the Communist Party USA join the book tour. Marxism is not Patriotic or American and Obama isn't even an American...WHERE's YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE OBAMA?

tinalowes666

What did the do, threaten the Rev. Wright? There must be some reason he put the book on the back burner. The Obama supporters will stoop to any lengths to win this election. They will lie, cheat, whatever. It's deplorable. I was a Hillary supporter. I'm voting for McCain. Roland Martin and Donna Brazile is what is wrong with this country. Obama is a disgrace. If someone called him a pig they'd all be going ape nuts.