[lbo-talk] Jeremiah Wright or Wrong?

[John Thornton]

Charles Brown wrote:
> Michael Smith 
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> John Thornton wrote:
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>> Truthfully, based on Clinton's past performance I doubt she would
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>> handled it as well but of course no one can know something like this
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> Here I disagree. On previous form, we can be quite confident 
> that Hillary would have handled it much, much worse. Shallow, 
> sanctimonious, preachy, platitudinous, evasive, tense, calculated 
> and contrived  - she would have been everything that Obama -- for 
> some of the time, at least -- was not, or appeared not to be.  
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> CB: Handled what ?  A woman preacher damning America for male supremacy

Yes.
If she had attended a church where a female preacher railed against 
patriarchy in the same inflammatory terms based on seeing Clinton in 
action these last 6 months I doubt she would have handled it as well.

John Thornton