LA Times Story: Was Wright's speech set up by a Clinton Supporter

It was Obama. That way he could come out denounce him, finally. Too little too late I'm afraid.

That's an interesting theory Shawn. I think it's fair to say nothing would be enough and timely for you and for many others. Too little, too late often means 'there is nothing he can say I already made up my mind.'

A fascinating intimation of skullduggery, and thanks for it, Alan!

I have to get past one question before I can countenance that possibility: what on Earth is going through Rev. Wright's mind today?

I think he is insane Dave. The guy made some points that I agreed with (regarding our foreign policies of causing chaos overseas). The theatrics during the Q&A and the mocking of JFK Sunday night, I can only explain with insanity. It's possible!

Quote from the link, "Using cache recovery and other techniques, a BuzzFlash reader recovered the key blog entry that Errol Louis quoted from before it was deleted."

This quote raises a couple questions

1. How did this unidentified BuzzFlash reader gain access to the computer on which it was supposedly stored.?

2., if the access was legal why was this person not identified.

3. Why did the link not provide any other evidence that the purported blog is even real or written by the person claimed to have written it, the Reverend Barbara Reynolds who is herself a black minister.

4. What is so strange much less devious about a Clinton supporter writing a blog stating what she supports and voted for Senator Clinton? Has merely expressing support for his opponent become evidence of involvement in some sort of conspiracy? If so, it suggests that voting for Obama would be voting for another four years of the kind of attacks Bush and company have been launching against their opposition for the past for seven plus years.

5. Why would a Clinton supporter give the Reverend Wright the time of day considering how deftly Obama had already handled the controversy he created? Much I suspect the Obama campaign's delight, Wright continued the self-destruction he had begun in the Moyers interview and gave Obama ample reason for what he had not previously done: Disown Wright. This is not something that was to Hillary's advantage. From a political perspective it would have been far more clever to just let Obama refusal to totally break with the man and let the ammunition hang out there and keep the controversy alive. Now the only thing the Clinton campaign can use is question why it took Obama so long to do what he should have done in the first place.

6. If you read Reynold's March blog you will find it is a defense of the Reverend Wright and praises the contributions he has made and suggests that if Rev. Reynold's did arrange Wrights appearance before the National Press Club it was because she thought he deserved an venue which would allow him to present a more positive image of himself. Unfortunately for her apparently both she and Obama erred in their judgement of this man.

In fact, combined with the March blog, the fact that the only blog deleted was a innocuous one in support of Senator Clinton suggests that Reverend Reynolds my had changed her mind about Obama and did not want leave the one in support of Senator Clinton up, not that deleting it was part of some really devious plot to provide ammunition for Senator's Clinton campaign. I also am not suggesting that Reverend Reynolds deleted it to provide ammunition of the charge alleged by this article. I will leave thoughts of such devious machinations to Bush and company and those who choose to imitate them.

You can retrieve the data yourself, Carol, using the link that was provided on the BuzzFlash webpage. I did myself. The information is held by Google, whose computers go out and scan billions of web pages, index and store information. Otherwise, you'd never get the nearly instantaneous results you do when you "Google" something.

When I entered the URL that was provided, I got the blog entry that was quoted. At the top of the page, the message from Google says:

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This is G o o g l e's cache of http://reynoldsworldnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/hope.html as retrieved on Apr 17, 2008 02:19:35 GMT.
G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.
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"How did this unidentified BuzzFlash reader gain access to the computer on which it was supposedly stored.? "

Answer - you don't need to get access to the computer on which it is stored.

Several other blogs have quoted it before it was sponged. As for motives, anyone can speculate. Your speculations of her believing Wright are legit. It is suspicious however that a Clinton supporter was sitting right next to Wright and arranged for him to be there.

Who benefits? Carol says Obama. I say Clinton benefits.

"I will leave thoughts of such devious machinations to Bush and company and those who choose to imitate them. "

That would be Clinton. Her campaign looks like it being run by Rove.

Think about it if it wasn't Rev. Wright now, it was going to be Rev. Wright or something else in the fall. It's much better to deal with this issue here and now where you can have some control over it instead of later where you may not have time to do any type of damage control.

This needed to be delt with now or better yet 3 months ago. Now is really the best time for Rev. Wright to come up, Obama will go into the convention with more states won, more popular votes, more delegates and a very good chance for the Dem nod. He doesn't need Rev. Wright taking center stage after the convention. Give Wright his 15 minutes of fame now.

Already given. He should go back to a cruise.

Carol,
I can't speculate on motives. The facts are the facts however. She is a Clinton supporter and she was sitting right next to Wright. The Obama campaign did not want Wright to speak a week before crucial primaries. If you believe if conspiracy theories of let make him speak now, find a way for Dr. Reynolds to invite him, ahd have her, the Clinton supporter there, denounce him and exploit the situation, ...that's a lot of things to put together and that would suggest that Reynolds is in it with the Obama camp. Why sponge her blog?

Alan,

She only sponged the blog that gave her reasons why she voted for Senator Clinton, and I mere suggested an alternative and much more likely reason for deleting that particular blog. If you had written an article/blog in support of Senator Clinton would you left it up where it could lead others to believe you still supported her and encourage them to vote for her? You are the one that suggested that the deleting of the blog was part of some plot that would benefit Senator Clinton. As for myself, I specifically stated that I did not think Reverend Reynolds did not delete it to give credence to your conspiracy theory. By the way did you read her March blog or do you also think that was written solely as a cover.

Reverend Wright started labelling Obama a politician who did the things a politician needed to do before appearing at the Press Club. Do you also think he is part of a Clintonian conspiracy?

All I am saying is this woman is a Clinton supporter and she got Wright a major stage. Rev Wright said previously that Obama is a politician and he is a Pastor and they speak to different audiences. On Monday, he went further, saying not only he is politician he responds to sound bites, polls, electability. That is a side issue. You are right. He has been saying similar stuff since Friday. However, here he was live, on National TV during the week day, and this platform is huge. Serious people got invited there, and they are selective. Wright, normally, would have never gotten in without some major help.

By the way she is not denying she got him there. She is however saying that she had no ill-conceived motives. You can take her words at face value or not. Everyone (interested) will make that decision. Just getting the story out there and presenting a cynical, provocative view of it.

Would the Clinton folks ever tell a lie ? check this and see what you think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq8aopATYyw&feature=related

then part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMfUajhL24I

I don't recall seeing Hillary's hand running up the back of Wright's shirt at the National Press Club.

Wright's cartoon-like behavior is still unexplained.

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Its a strong possibility, stranger things have happened.

Denver is going to be fun.

Obama's camp set it up by back channels. It just turned out worse, than they expected.