Things To Watch In The 2012 Campaign

President Obama had two powerful weapons in the 2008 campaign–one was the fact that the country was war-weary and the constant attacks on George W. Bush and the Republicans were beginning to bear fruit. The other was the fact that the country knew very little about Barack Obama and the news media made sure it stayed that way. One pesky little fact that kept on coming up on conservative talk radio shows was President Obama’s 20-year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ pastored by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Big Government posted a story today about a recent speech by David Axelrod in which “Axelrod described the initial news reports in 2008 on Obama’s long-time family pastor and mentor as “ninety seconds of vitriol plucked from thirty years of sermons by some enterprising opposition researcher.””

Please follow the link above to see the video of some of the preaching of the Reverend Wright.

The article at Big Government concludes:

Clearly, Axelrod’s purpose was not to inform, but to inspire. He suggested that Obama would reiterate the “hope and change” message of his 2008 campaign in 2012, and would emphasize economic equality as well as economic growth.

Axelrod’s defense of Jeremiah Wright, however, is a sign that the Obama camp is still resisting and obscuring the degree to which Obama’s own inspirations and ideas remain outside the political mainstream.

There will be a lot of lies told on the campaign trail. We need to learn to sort the lies and the spin from the actual truth.

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