Can't nominate that guy, RW will smear him. Can't nominate this one because the RW will smear her.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

So whom can we nominate? Newt?

We need to fight back against RW smears, not acquiesce to them by using the same criteria as the RW to
judge our own candidates.

On Edit: This is not a response to the posts against Wright. This is a response to the posts that argue we can't vote for Obama because the RW will try and smear him with Wright.

[pampango]

1. You will cower in fear of what the RW smear machine will do.

That seems to be the new motto for Democrats.

I agree we need to nominate the person whom we believe best represents what we believe in, then battle the RW smear machine, the racists, the misogynists, and the religious bigots to win the election rather than let fear of what these forces dictate whom we nominate.

[C_U_L8R]

2. I can't wait for the RW smear machine. Bring it on!

I can't wait for those slugs to creep out with all their slime.
We squash them... together! I said, together.

[JCMach1]

3. Legitimately smeared in this case... I wouldn't vote for any candidate

who got his spiritual advice for 20 YEARS from this idiot!

20 years...

[high density]

4. You and about twenty other DUers are the only ones that care about this bogus shit

Glad to hear you're a one issue voter on ... the pastor of the candidate? :crazy:

[scheming daemons]

5. Please..... Going to a church != espousing all their viewpoints....

[JCMach1]

6. Obama called him a crazy old uncle

You don't hang out with the crazy old racist uncle for 20 years every Sunday without something happening to your psyche.

His church gave Farakhan a lifetime achievement award...

This is extremely bad. In fact, just leave Hillary out of it. There is no way he can get elected now.

and seriously, I am not going to say much else about this simply to stir the pot in GDP... I don't do that...

This is a huge issue for the General Election if he is our nominee... :(

[Benhurst]

7. Dedicating a book to a man, hardly indicates a repudiation of his views.

[earthlover]

9. check out Hillary's 15 year membership in The Fellowship, a secretive group that has

many hyper conservative members, including a former head of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html

People in glass cathedrals shouldn't throw stones

[Benhurst]

10. How in the hell did we end up with two candidates who are followers

of such fucked-up religious leaders?

The Democratic party used to be the party of Jefferson and The Enlightenment. The way things are going, we should ask Governor Huckabee to join us. It looks like he'd fit right in with our "leaders."

[Mooney]

8. I agree with you 1000%.

Watching my fellow Democrats cower in fear of how the Republicans will turn swing voters against us is making me nauseous in its simpering cowardice. We do this every fucking election. This is why we lose.

It's not because of individual issues. It's because we don't take the fight to the Republicans and we come off like gigantic cowards who are willing to be defined by them. This shit simply needs to stop. It will bring us a President McCain more than anything else will.