I don’t know who at the Obama camp thought it would be a good idea to let Obama’s controversial pastor/mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright go on tour, but he’s not helping his candidate any. At Wright’s appearances over the weekend, he is claiming that criticisms of his overtly racist and anti-American rhetoric are actually “an attack on the black church.”
In other words, if you object to him yelling “God damn America” from the pulpit, you’re just a racist member of the “dominant culture” who’s only out to smear black Christians everywhere!
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose post-Sept. 11 comments critical of America have raised questions about his relationship with Obama, has been on a multi-stop tour to restore his image and talk about his church. In addition to speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, he sat down for an interview with PBS’s Bill Moyers in recent days.
“This is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright. This is an attack on the black church,” said Wright, who cast his appearance as part of a two-day “symposium” on the black church.
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Playing off the crowd’s energy, Wright even suggested he would be interested in the vice presidency.
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Wright also reasserted Monday that Obama was only disavowing his former pastor’s comments for political reasons.
I’m sure Obama must be glad to know that his mentor of twenty years is running all over the country telling people that Barack actually does believe that controversial crap that Wright’s been preaching but that he’s only saying that he doesn’t so that he can trick us into electing him, a raging radical, to the White House. That’s gotta be great news for his campaign. Sure it’s the same game he played with NAFTA, but the public isn’t supposed to find out about these things! (Don’t you just love his “new brand of politics?” We’ve never seen such overt double talk from politicians before!)
Wright has also announced that he will play an extremely influential role in an Obama administration (whether Barack likes it or not), and he continues to claim that his comments have been taken out of context. But, like any liberal trying to play this smoke and mirrors game, refuses to explain the “proper” context that would make his comments acceptable.
I’m anxious to know; in what context is “God damn America” acceptable?
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hmmmm… seems like your grasping at straws here… and deleting comments, considering this one wont be up here too long I better make it quick…
What kind of context would you put McCains 100 more years in Iraq would be “fine with me” ?
Or the fact that McCain’s wife is a pill poping drugy?
Or McCain getting 6 figures and private jet rides from scam artist Chuck Keating.
Or that McCain has admitted affairs with his first wife.
Or that McCain opposed Martin Luther King Jr Day
Or that McCain broke his promise to not fly corporate jets or use his wife’s families wealth for his political campaign.
Its amazing, Its not really the person that Conservatives vote for, the only thing that matters is that they have an R in front of there names…
But since you will probably delete this post, I should stop wasting my time
“Jim,” we don’t delete comments on this site unless the commentor uses excessive profanity or it’s spam. So your time is not wasted and your attack is unfair. Thanks for sharing your concerns about John McCain though.
Admittedly, some of the points you raise are the same objections that Conservatives had about McCain during the primary. We will get behind him in the general though because he better represents our values than Clinton or Obama (though far from perfectly).
Please stop back anytime… your voice is always welcome, no matter your point of view.
Why are my attacks unfair and yours justifies? Sounds like hypocrasy to me.
“Jim,” If you’re going to continue accusing me of “hypocrasy” (sic), you need to learn how to spell it correctly. Your attacks that I consider unfair are the ones you make against me “deleting comments.” I explained that that’s not how we operate and it seemed unfair for you to accuse me of that with no evidence of it happening (because it doesn’t).
Regarding your criticisms of McCain, I said I share some of your concerns! How is that “hypocrasy” (sic)?
Oh, I concede than. I suppose you are right about the comment, maybe I pressed the wrong button or it might have timed out, I’ll definitely give you the benefit of the doubt since it has only happened once.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I enjoy your posts!