http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HcPcg4JaeU
That sign behind Obama ,,” Change, I see, the “we can believe in “ is out of focus
Have they removed Olberman’s nose from Obama’s ass yet? This is what the MSM gets for pandering for this tin pot Messiah. Did anyone ask the Dalai Bama if he were insulted by Jeremiah (aptly named, I’d say) Wright’s demonizing of white devils? Doesn’t that lunatic realize that O’s mom was white? And God forbid that we bomb Japan. Where was Jeremiah educated, Harvard Law? Isn’t the moron aware that the Japanese murdered millions in Manchuria. You can bet your bottom dollar that that neither he nor O have ever heard of the Rape of Nanking. Of course liberals eat this dung up. Anything that insults the USA is grand. But we mustn’t ever say anything about the hundred million people plus that Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro and his flunky Che murdered. Sorry, but I think Obama is a cipher. He’s a pampered creation that has never known privation. And he has millions of guilty white liberal supplicants to kiss his ass.
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It will be hard to make him a traitor or anything even close to it. He might sympathize and not confront some black rhetoric, but he seems honest and normal in all respects. His values are easily articulated and include a statement that should resonate with Evangelicals.
That statement is he credited in some way Reverend Wright with leading him to Christ. This, in my estimation, is the true test of a pastor--does he lead you to Christ or does he lead you to himself or something else.
Most assuredly, Reverend Wright has bizarre beliefs which are not congruent with reality. He has views that are antithetical to American values and attributes; however, it will be impossible to similarly paint Senator Obama as holding the same views.
This is a one week story. The big danger is the conservatives will overplay the nutty card. I truly hope and pray Senator McCain does not allow this.
A person's external identity is determined by: (1)What he looks like; (2)How others view him; (3)And, what he does for a living. There is also self judgment; however, this is harder to describe and is usually overwhelmed by the other three.
The problem for blacks is they get up in the morning and see a black face in the mirror. You see yourself as black with black social and economic accouterments. This is not easy to overcome and being an individual is fraught with difficulty because in this time and in the past being black would not be a chosen by most.
Some make it to become individuals. It takes intelligence, courage and determination above and beyond what most white people (including me)have to have to determine individuality.
Add to this the tendency of those less successful to harbor grievances (ressentiment) about past and present, real and imagined mistreatment and you have a difficult existential challenge.
Working class people usually resent those more successful. They do not express their ressentiment because it does not seem wise under most circumstances. Instead, they search for wrongdoing or mistakes in others and convert ressentiment to resentment with aggressive action of one kind or another. Usually, this will take the form of alleged or trivial injustice or error that is then unloaded on much to the consternation of outside observers.
Justice began as a form of revenge (Good King Dracon) and still has that quality for the everyday mind. What Reverend Wright seems to offer, but Senator Obama does not, is a reason to actualize this resentment and belittle and punish white America. Not smart. Not valid. But human nature is imperfect even in pastors.
I may be spelling ressentiment wrong. It is a pure feeling state that occurs automatically in those who see themselves as social and political inferiors. It is a French term and my ability to spell French words was never good and is now nonexistent. Existentialists are prone to use it and especially Nietzsche who was an existentialist before there was such a word.
Obama doesn’t get it. AC just played that video of the pastor ranting and Obama’s response? “Well, I don’t think it’s right to refer to Hillary that way.”
Um, Barack, this isn’t about Hillary. It’s about you and your 20-year connection to this racist, mentally ill pastor.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Lessee now
When it was about Romney, it was all about his “religion” if a FReeper was not going to vote for him...
What happened to those rules for Obama ???
“Obama goes to a racist church”
so what ??? so does Romney...
seems there are two sets of rules at play here...
Can you say “hypocrites”, children ???????
I was accused of “going over to the dark side” because I was not going to vote for Romney...
Where are y’all at now ?????????
Things go Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Somebody is going to find a tape of one of the Wright radical sermons with BHO in the pews. Bet on it. It would be a bonus if BHO appears to be agreeing with Wright’s crap.
But there is a tape showing BHO in the pews during a Wright diatribe.
Barack “Millhouse” Obama is toast. He was an obvious, lying, deer-in-the-headlights, loser under interogation by Major Garrett on FOX. That fool minister Wright was totally over the top. What a shame that Black Americans will have to bear the shame of this lightweight partisan...successful in Chicago ward politics, but not ready for the “show”. The real killer is Wright’s theatrical, “..G— D-— America!”
Sure, Olbermann is the hero of the leftwing idiots that support Obama.
We knew all this crap about Obama here months ago.
Many of us hammered away at it in spite of being called bigoted and racist by the usual suspects here on FR.
Well know.
You moderates here insisting we kid glove poor Malcolm O and his dear frustrated wife and simply talk about high minded issues.
Why don’t ya’ll just kiss my pink butt? (not you mom)
How this Chavez wannabe can be in the running for POTUS is damned scary and he deserves to be crushed. We have tolerated this crap from certain quarters for too damn long.
I’m loving this.
Leni
I must say it warms the heart to watch how the independent thinking Free Republic members fall so easily for this “scandal” concocted by the Hitlery’s campaign, and react just the very way that Mr Carvile had planned it! Sheep!
CNN is rerunning Anderson Cooper’s interview with Obama.
Obama is saying he never heard those sermons/words in church.
[Did Obama sleep during the sermons for 20 years?]
Obama is dancing all around. Even Cooper in finding Obama’s responses evasive and questionable.
Obama does have a smirk on his face. [That isn’t going to go over well either.] Obama actually defends the minister.
Obama is trying to spin this, but he giving rambling and stammering non-sensical responses.
Keith is just as bad as Wright. CNN thought that McCain should apologize. Oh, Obama made nice but as Tony Blankley said, it strains immagination that Barak never ,never, knew that the sermons contained inflammatory anti-American, anti-white , Liberation theology that dissed any other Christian interpretations of Matthew! In 20 plus year, Obama just never knew that those sermons sounded like some left wing university prof who also hates the USA. He needs more
‘splaining.
Anderson Cooper is raising the question to his panel as to whether Obama is truthful in saying he never heard the kinds of remarks on the Wright tapes.
[Obama can’t say he sat in the pews for 20 years and never heard these.]
Tony Perkins isn’t buying Obama’s explanation.
David Gergin sort of excused Obama.
Roland Martin says Obama recognizes the severity, and thus he (Obama) is making all the news networks, trying to head it off. Martin is sort of excusing Obama, too.