Comments on Rev. Wright, Meet the Underside of a Bus. Maybe.
Obama will throw him under the bus. Whether Wright is a kook or not, it's looking like he's perfectly comfortable with his position as political liability. I can't imagine the two of them are on friendly terms as of late.
Hillary won't let this go. She thinks this racially divisive stuff is a weapon she is entitled to use, and she will try and try to exploit it until it blows up in her face. Again. And still she won't understand why manipulating race keeps blowing up in her face, and so she'll do it again. It's a kind of sickness, really. There should be a special name for it.
Eli, calling something a "distraction" is an accurate description of an event, not a sacrificial bus-toss.
Maybe? I'd say Probably Not.
Bus-crushing is calling Richardson "Judas" and arguing "who said Obama couldn't win" on a phone call, etc, etc. It's the Clinton way of dealing with "traitors."
Obama simply, calmly explains what's going on and tries to get us back to discussing real issues, like looming financial and food crises, health care, education, and things that affect hard-working people more than Press Club speeches do. Why would he not continue his campaign pattern? If he started acting like Hillary, he knows he'd lose because she does that better than he does; it's not his way.
Let Cooler Heads Prevail.
Where did the phrase "thrown under the bus" originate?
Bub, some people blame Cyndi Lauper:
Bus or no bus, the damage is done.
Thanks @5 I'd been wondering the same thing.
Has to be done. At some point, every candidate starts throwing supporters and/or causes under the bus, it's just a matter of who or what. Hell, Clinton just threw the enviros under the bus by coming out in support of the gas tax suspension, ostensibly to bolster her support among people who Don't Give a Shit About Energy Independence and Just Want Cheaper Gas. It's all strategy, folks!
Hillary has already thrown half of her own party under a bus.
As I told Dan Abrams of MSNBC last night, it's only a story because the press says it is. There are far scary skeletons in other peoples closets. I also said that if Reverend Wright was white and supported Hillary or McCain, the only people who would be up in arms would be liberal bloggers.
obama's got the nom. two thoughts:
since wright is willing to take potentially harm obama's campaign to further his own message, it's better that we give wright his time now, and not in the general. even so, mccain has said he does not want to focus on it. so this takes a potential obama negative off the table, while simultaneously removing a mccain positive.
clinton's latest ploy, siding with mccain on the gas tax truly reveals her plan. someone on slog said it brilliantly: so if democrats were republicans, clinton would be winning the nom. it's not a bad tactic, however, as many a swing voter could be persuaded by it. it is revealing, and perhaps too late.
How much did the McCain campaign give Hils to run those attack ads? And why did she say "I approve of this message" when she didn't even create the vids?
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