Posted on 04/29/2008 8:49:30 AM PDT by NCDragon
WASHINGTON -- Because John McCain and other legislators worry they are easily corrupted, there are legal limits to the monetary contributions that anyone can make to political candidates. There are, however, no limits to the rhetorical contributions that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright can make to McCain's campaign.
Because Wright is a gift determined to keep on giving, this question arises: Can people opposed to Barack Obama's candidacy justly make use of Wright's invariably interesting interventions in the campaign? The answer is: Certainly, because Wright's paranoias tell us something -- exactly what remains to be explored -- about his 20-year parishioner.
In Monday's speech at the National Press Club, Wright repeated -- decorously, by his standards, but clearly -- his accusation, made the Sunday after 9/11, that America got what it deserved. His Monday answer to a question about that accusation was: "Whatsoever you sow, that you also shall reap" and "you cannot do terrorism on other people and expect them never to come back on you."
As evidence that "our government is capable of doing anything," he strongly hinted that he has intellectually respectable corroboration -- he mentioned several publications -- for his original charge that the U.S. government is guilty of "inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color." But on Monday he insisted that he is not anti-American: It is, he said, Americans' government, not the American public, that is a genocidal perpetrator of terrorism. So, he now denies that America has a representative government -- that it represents the public. He believes that elections constantly and mysteriously -- and against the public's will -- produce a genocidal, terroristic government.
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Good points. I truly believe that Wright and Obama believe the same BS. I also believe that Wright feels Obama owes him for his political career, and; that Rev. Wrong feels that Obama did not do enough to defend him.
Time to free the black slaves of the Democrat Party.
And golf.
And himself.
And golf.
And himself.
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I buy Playboy to read the articles.
Already done. Wright mentioned in his speech to the NAACP that he has a book coming out in the fall.
The amazing thing is that during the entire Wright controversy, McCain has been dropping in the Rasmussen head-to-head poll while Obama has been rising.
Tempest. Meet Teapot.
“If Hillary does wrest the nomination from B. Hussein Obama, Blacks will stay home in November, (with plenty of urging by other odious “reverends” like Shakedown Jackson and Fat Albert Sharpton to do so.)”
What makes you think they will blame Hellary for Obama’s defeat? If Repubs are pounding the Rev story 24h a day the RATs and the media will claim Repub racism did it. Hellary is already started doing it. Best to let them destroy themselves without our help. You need to take off the rose colored glasses and realize that things don’t always go the way you think they will.
It will be interesting to see how much of the ultra radical vote Obama losses now he was denounced Farrakhan and Wright.
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