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Well I had determined that I was going to quit my Obama bashing and hope that the media would do a better job now that Obama's true colors had started to emerge.

I should have known better; This morning on the Chris Mathews show, Mathews tried to spin the "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country" statement by using the corrected speech that Obama campaign put out to try to correct the record on what she had been saying on the stump.

The first time I heard this spin - this lie - was by Bill Schneider of CNN: When an outraged Lou Dobbs interviewed him regarding her statements, Bill Schneider kept correcting Dobbs that she said "really" proud meaning that she was always proud but now she was really proud.

She had given the original version of the speech several times before it came to her campaign's attention that people were feeling outraged by the statement and it might hurt the campaign when it was re-played as it was then sure to be. They then made the calculated decision to put out a new version of the speech rather than dropping the statement altogether, adding the word "really" to distort what she had orignally stated.

They had to do that since to just stop making the speech would not solve their problem since the statement was already out there on video. So they did the next best thing; Put out a video with the modified speech and hope it would be copied as much as the former and thereby mitigate the damage done. So they started making the modified speech to spin that argument.

And now Chris Mathews who is an Obama cheerleader like everyone else over at MSNBC, actually corrected his guest this morning who referred to that now infamous statement, saying that "she said 'really proud' " .

So I looked for a clip of the original speech and found this video which I was glad someone made, which shows how she changed the speech that day. After her modification, she stopped giving the speech altogether.

We know what she meant just like we know now, what her Pastor Wright meant. Neither, love this country or respect it.

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Obama's Cabinet if elected will look like this Rev.Wright, Rev.Meeks, Rezco,The New Black Panther Party and Roland Martin ...Washington Post = Obama Advertising Agency...Gotta love Bill Clinton ..he can say in a few words and moments what it takes NObama 3 DAYS to put in a pointless racist speech.."don't tell me words don't matter".."i was NOT in church" .."i WAS in church" .."my church is not controversial"

Nice work Raeka, not a bad showing. I have to say I'd never seen that 1st video before- only the one where shes in the purple top. You go too far though with the usual conclusions you draw however.

First, you haven't shown that her earlier speeches used that exact language- to me it'd be easy to lose a word here and there- indeed we can see from other parst of that speech that its not verbatim each time.

Secondly, you can't just narrate what the dem strategists were thinking- as far as I'm aware no controversy broke until after she'd given that 2nd speech- and her detractors drew enough problems from the words "really proud" to show it wasn't the best 'spin'.

Third, in an actual direct clarification which you can see here:


so if 'spin' has occured than it lies not between the two speeches, but in this interview. For this interview itself I'd say it make sense- context is right, and word usage; consider if she had been talking about a sports team, she wouldn't use the words 'American swim team' for example, she'd say 'America'- knowing full-well the context was clear.

There is definately fire in this situation where we all see smoke. Do we really want these people in the White House? We can't even be 100% sure they even like the USA. Between Michelles comments and Obamas links to that Pastor there is more to this than meets the eye.

Obviously, you don't: you want to insert your agenda into the comments.

You do it all the time: "Obama backers think.."

It's just one big fallacy after the next.

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Obama's Cabinet if elected will look like this Rev.Wright, Rev.Meeks, Rezco,The New Black Panther Party and Roland Martin ...Washington Post = Obama Advertising Agency...Gotta love Bill Clinton ..he can say in a few words and moments what it takes NObama 3 DAYS to put in a pointless racist speech.."don't tell me words don't matter".."i was NOT in church" .."i WAS in church" .."my church is not controversial"

I'm gonna:

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Obama's Cabinet if elected will look like this Rev.Wright, Rev.Meeks, Rezco,The New Black Panther Party and Roland Martin ...Washington Post = Obama Advertising Agency...Gotta love Bill Clinton ..he can say in a few words and moments what it takes NObama 3 DAYS to put in a pointless racist speech.."don't tell me words don't matter".."i was NOT in church" .."i WAS in church" .."my church is not controversial"