The Wright Card

Yesterday Hillary told reporters that Rev. Wright "would not have been [her] pastor." Also, Niall O'Dowd, a Clinton finance committee member, has compared Wright to David Duke in an interview with a foreign radio show. The Wright card seems to be on the table.

Here's what O'Dowd said: "I think the issue that the Clinton campaign has seized on is that Barack Obama, you know, never once raised his voice to his pastor and said, `I think your language is quite extreme here, and I think you language is probably wrong.' Because let's turn this around. If this was David Duke and he was preaching on behalf of, and Hillary Clinton was in the pew, there would be outrage about this. And there can't be this double standard. Barack Obama has used race where it suited him, but when it doesn't suit him he backs away from it."

The Duke comparison is generating outrage from the usual suspects, who seem to have forgetten that it was Obama who compared Wright to Geraldine Ferraro and his "typical white person" grandmother.



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