Posted on 03/19/2008 6:55:07 AM PDT by gridlock
Barack Obama has run a campaign based on a simple premise: that words of unity and hope matter to America. Now he has been forced by his charismatic, angry pastor to argue that words of hatred and division don't really matter as much as we thought.
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The problem with Obama's argument is that Wright is not a symbol of the strengths and weaknesses of African Americans. He is a political extremist, holding views that are shocking to many Americans who wonder how any presidential candidate could be so closely associated with an adviser who refers to the "U.S. of KKK-A" and urges God to "damn" our country.
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Take an issue that Obama did not specifically confront yesterday. In a 2003 sermon, Wright claimed, "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color."
This accusation does not make Wright, as Obama would have it, an "occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy." It makes Wright a dangerous man. He has casually accused America of one of the most monstrous crimes in history, perpetrated by a conspiracy of medical Mengeles. If Wright believes what he said, he should urge the overthrow of the U.S. government, which he views as guilty of unspeakable evil. If I believed Wright were correct, I would join him in that cause.
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I dunno, Michael. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Bump
We’re known by the company we keep. There is no excusing that “pastor.” Makes you wonder which side of his mouth Obama is speaking out of. Or maybe it’s his forked tongue.
I think Obama is not only a man who hates, but one who hopes to hide that fact until he has the power to put his hatred into action against those he hates. In other words, he shouldn’t even be a senator, let alone a serious candidate for the Presidency.
Yet, completely devoid of facts or substance.
Exactly!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
There are 300,000,000 people in this country. 299,995,000 do not have long mentoring relationships to racist Pastors. How about we make one of them President!
Michelle is not as good at hiding it, is she?
Whoa! They absotively loved it on CNN. It was a “great speech”, and all that....
This is an excellent article on the subject that everyone should read:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjZkMmI1ODIwZTgxMWQzZDg3YTM4ODk0ZTEzMjhhOWQ=
Afrocentrism is the key word here. Obama is hinged to the past belief that more money and more govt will help the black person in this country. The more unifying and more effective thought for blacks and other minorities would be to take the philosophy of Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Shelby Foote etc. that the black race has been hampered by racial quotas, minimum wages, busing, welfare, etc etc.
Obama has no new advice or leadership in this area. He could be a Messiah to his people, instead he is charlatan...who has used his church to get where he’s at...and has learned nothing about the failures of govt programs...
He’s a throw back to the Louis Armstrongs...Jessie Jacksons etc. The black man is where he is because of the white man philosophy...
That may have been true 50 to 100 years ago... but not today..
This man is dangerous....
BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT....HE WILL BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE....
Yeah. And, we can have the Chief Justice step to the side and let Revrum Wrong swear him in.
The amazing thing is that nobody thought it through. It was just a good lie that nobody really believes. But it makes for great grievance theater, so it is promoted.
Bingo! The same could be said for Hillary, and for differing reasons, John "F'in" sKerry, and Algore.
Man, have the Dims thrown up some real ringers in recent elections.....and not so recent elections, too......
Wow. The Washington Post publishes this during the work week? The split in the Democrat party is widening and there are actual Washington Post writers writing the truth!
This is pretty big.
I’d go as far as to say his support for Wright shows Obama harbors a deep-rooted hatred for America.
Which would kind of put his opposition to the Iraq war in a different light.
McCain's connection to John Hagee takes that weapon off the table in the general election, and Hillary's reputation greatly weakens it in the primaries (it just sounds like more of the same-old-same-old Clinton Slime Machine output).
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