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Week of March 16, 2008 - March 22, 2008

Jeremiah Wright: extended mix


If anyone else is as hungry as I had been to see some of the contexts from which the MSM's Jeremiah Wright clips had been lifted, here and here are a couple of much longer excerpts from the sermons in which "America's chickens" and "God damn America" occur.  In the second case especially the soundbite version gets it wrong (and Bill Clinton is labeled an "intelligent friend" of civil rights).

Remember when the Clinton campaign swore they weren't gonna try to flip Obama's pledged delegates? Well, guess what?


Newsweek is reporting that the Clinton campaign is, indeed, going there.

The relevant passage:
After the 1980 battle between Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy, her chief strategist Harold Ickes noted, the party changed a rule that required pledged delegates to stick with their candidates no matter what. The current rule, adopted in 1982, states that pledged delegates "shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them." A "good conscience" reason for a delegate to switch, Ickes told NEWSWEEK, would be if one candidate—such as, say, Clinton—was deemed more "electable." If delegates believe she has a better chance in November than Obama, Ickes said, "you bet" that would be a reason to change their vote. (He added, however, that the campaign is "focused" on winning over uncommitted superdelegates "at this point.")
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