Barry O Round-Up; Spiritual Advisor is Such an Ambiguous Term and Taxes!

By jen

“If I say he apologized and regrets his remarks then by DAMN he did.”

“Had the reverend not retired and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying there at the church,” Obama said.

Didn’t this bitch just retire? Are all these comments of his in the last five minutes? For fuck’s sake, asshole. You were in his church for 20 years. Try again, that one just isn’t working for you. Try involving global warming or something.

Don Surber: Barack Rodham Obama might have quit his church if Rev. Wright had stayed on. Once again, on the tough issues, Obama votes, “Present.”

Ed Morrissey on Hot Air:

AP has already noted Obama’s statement that he would have left Trinity United had Wright’s repeated rhetoric not escaped his notice, but Geraghty caught Obama minimizing Wright in a way that contradicts Obama’s own statements earlier in the campaign and in his book, Dreams from My Father (emphasis mine):

“I talked to [Wright] after this episode. I think he’s saddened by what’s happened. I feel badly that he has been characterized in just this one way. But he was my pastor. I think people overstate this idea of mentor or spiritual adviser. He was my pastor.”

People tend to overstate the idea of mentor or spiritual adviser? I wonder why? Could it be because Obama himself emphasized it at the beginning of his campaign?

How about some taxation goodness?  God knows I am not paying nearly enough in taxes…

Ed Morrissey again at Hot Air does all the heavy lifting and stuff I am too lazy to do…. go read him. 

 The Los Angeles Times notes the love affair between Barack Obama and taxes continues unabated. In an interview with CNBC in New York last night, Obama promised to eliminate the Bush tax cuts and hike taxes on those making as little as $75,000 per year.

Obama wants it both ways. He wants the Left to believe that he will start pulling more money out of the economy for a big slate of government programs, while he wants the middle class to believe that all of these programs won’t cost them anything — and meanwhile, his options remain “open”. It sounds more like “I’m making this up as I go along.”