I think Rachel has bent over BACKWARDS to ba AGNOSTIC in the Obama/Clinton fight, as has Thom Hartmann. While others like Randi Rhoades and the Young Turks have gone into full Obama Root Mode, which is unfortunate.

And Rachel appears frequently on Keith Olbermann's show, when Keith is clearly ProBama, (albeit a convert from the Clinton camp as he stated on last night's show). You seem to be buying into a Republican BULLSH*T point that having an opinion or political POSITION = BIAS, the Republican MEME that made FOX NEWS famous.

re: The Wright "Problem."

I think you're falling for a CLASSIC ROVIAN Attack Strategy: Take an opponent's STRENGTH and morph it into a WEAKNESS.

Obama's whole campaign has been centered around building TOLERANCE and CONSENSUS. "We are not as divided as our politics suggest." "There is no Red America or Blue America." "We are ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE."

STOP listening to the damn pundits and listen to what Obama is actually SAYING. Read his positions at www.barackobama.com and see where his REAL feelings are. You can accept or reject THAT, not the INSINUATIONS that the Right-Wing will always throw against him.

The Right-Wing's attack point comes from Obama being TOO TOLERANT. If he is tolerant of someone like Rev. Wright, then maybe (the insinuation goes) then he supports INTOLERANCE, which is where Rev. Wright stands on many issues. So Tolerating Intolerance = INTOLERANCE. Way to go, Karl Rove! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
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Obama's association with Rev. Wright DOES expose a fault in Obama, but not the one you're thinking. It's not that everything he's ever said and done as a legislator is a LIE and he's a STEALTH "Manchurian Candidate" (as Ann Coulter called him) who SECRETLY believes in what Rev. Wright says. He got caught with his pants down PANDERING to the Looney Religious Left.

Rev. Wright's church has over 20,000 members on the South Side of Chicago. That's a hell of a lot of people that were Obama's CONSTITUENCY in his State Senate district. His constituency there LOVE Rev. Wright and all the fiery rhetoric, despite the High Percentage BULLSH*T factor. They LOVE him down there. Joining Wright's church was a POLITICAL DECISION. To fit in with his constituency.

So Obama panders to religious leaders. Is that any worse than John McCain pandering to even worse looneys on the Religious Right, like Hagee or Paisley? There's an incredible DOUBLE STANDARD where Right-Wing religious Looneys can say whatever the hell they want and it's OK because they're "Men of God." But when someone from the Looney Religious Left says ANYTHING, they're Anti-American, dangerous Radicals.

Because, according to the Conservative DOGMA, Republicans are the Party of GOD and the Democrats are the Party of Atheist, America-Hating Baby Killers.

Who is John McCain's pastor? Oh, yeah, that's right. He doesn't HAVE ONE. That's because he's been following the lead of RONALD REAGAN, expousing his Christian beliefs while NEVER actually GOING to Church. That's really convenient, isn't it? John McCain is a Catholic. Wait, no, Episcopal. Wait, no, Baptist! Wait, no, just a generic, Good, whateve-the-heck Christian he decides to be TODAY.

If you care about your president being a good Christian (which you SHOULDN'T) at least Obama WENT to church for 20 years, while John McCain and so many other Republicans get to sit on their asses every Sunday Morning so they don't have to COMMIT themselves to whatever positions their Church or Pastor might expouse!
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No matter WHAT you might think about Obama, I can't believe, as a Democrat, you would consider voting for John McCain or sitting on your hands and ALLOWING him to win.

I sucked down two votes for BILL, even though I would have wanted a more Progressive candidate. Because that was the REALITY of the times.

I wasn't like so many Liberal/Progressives who went into the 2000 election saying "Gush/Bore, what's the difference? And voting for NADIR. Because allowing the Republicans complete control of the Government would push us into the ABYSS. And that's EXACTLY where Dubya took us to, the Abyss. Do you really want us to stay the Course of Dubya radical Military Interventionism and hacking away at our Government, so that we no longer have the ability to GOVERN OURSELVES???

Do you really want John McCain to appoint two more SUPREME COURT JUSTICES that will cannonize two more people that will KILL Roe V Wade and turn Dubya's crapping on the Constitution that is the "Supreme Executive" into the Law of the Land for an entire GENERATION???