Tweety starts with the New York Times article on the attack on Obama
and Rev Wright
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Cubs-Owner-Wants-To-Tie-Obama-To-Wright-151870885.html
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President Obama now has one more reason to root for the White Sox.
In one of the most stupefying political efforts I’ve ever heard of, Cubs owner Joe Ricketts is said to be considering spending millions of dollars on a campaign to defeat Obama by tying him to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ.
According to The New York Times:
A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.
The plan, which is awaiting approval, calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whose race-related sermons made him a highly charged figure in the 2008 campaign.
“The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. Mr. Ricketts is increasingly putting his fortune to work in conservative politics.
The $10 million plan, one of several being studied by Mr. Ricketts, includes preparations for how to respond to the charges of race-baiting it envisions if it highlights Mr. Obama’s former ties to Mr. Wright, who espouses what is known as “black liberation theology.”
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Go Sox
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Cubs-Owner-Wants-To-Tie-Obama-To-Wright-151870885.html#ixzz1vABUlHZP
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