Billionaire may trot out Jeremiah Wright to convince voters who 'aren't ready to hate' Obama yet (Daily Kos)
Joe Ricketts A slick, colorful, professionally bound, 54-page proposal for a $10 million attack on President Obama for his association with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright is being considered by Chicago billionaire Joe Ricketts, according to Jeff Zeleney and Jim Rutenberg of _The New York Times._ The funding would be funneled through the Super PAC Ending Spending Action Fund. The proposal, which apparently is one of several being looked at, is titled “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good.” The strategists who put it together say it is designed to “do exactly what John McCain would not let us do.” > Lamenting that voters “still aren’t ready to hate this president,” the document concludes that the campaign should “explain how forces out of Obama’s control, that shaped the man, have made him completely the wrong choice as president in these days and times.” Those forces, the _Times_ says, center on the Rev. Wright, who was previously Obama's spiritual advisor and pastor of the Chicago church he attended. Accusations that Obama was in thrall to Wright's black liberation theology led to the famous and widely acclaimed speech on race that the ...
Elder Oaks at Finance Committee Hearing on Charitable Deductions
