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DEL.ICIO.USThe toxic Jeremiah Wright
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
No question Jeremiah Wright is toxic. His view of America, as expressed in the National Press Club speech, is so vile that Barack Obama finally did something he could no longer avoid. He threw him under the bus, just as he’d done to his white grandmother last month in Philadelphia.
Said Obama Tuesday of Wright’s Monday morning press club speech:
“When he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS; when he suggests that Minister [Louis] Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest voices of the 20th and 21st century; when he equates the United States’ wartime efforts with terrorism, then there are no excuses. They offend me, they rightly offend all Americans, and they should be denounced. And that’s what I’m doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.”
Obama’s sweeping denunciation of the crackpot uncle he’d protected in Philadelphia came after Wright hinted that Obama agreed with his bizarre and jaundiced views of America, but couldn’t acknowledge it right now. “If Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected,” said Wright Monday. “Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls.” Obama is, thus,in Wright’s mind, just another hack politician playing games. Toxic — especially to Obama’s candidacy.
One poll Tuesday shows Hillary is within 5 points of Obama in North Carolina, 44-49, and solidly in command in Indiana, both with primaries next Tuesday. If Obama manages to blow it in North Carolina, the pressure shifts to him to hang it up. Can’t win the big states and now momentum’s shifting to Hillary.
The real mystery is not why Obama finally felt compelled to act, but Wright himself. The guy must have an ego the size of California to continue a string of public appearances —- especially one before the press club — where he surely must know that he harms Obama’s chances of being elected President.
And even when Wright believes he’s sanitizing his message for a national audience, or at least presenting it in a way that gives context to the oft-rerun clips from previous sermons, the result is the press club speech that Obama denounced.
“What we saw yesterday out of Reverend Wright was a resurfacing and, I believe, an exploitation of those old divisions,” he said referring to “divisive politics of the past.” Continuing: ” Whatever his intentions, that was the result. It is antithetical to our campaign, it is antithetical to what I am about, it is not what I think America stands for, and I want to be very clear that moving forward Reverend Wright does not speak for me, he does not speak for our campaign. I cannot prevent him from continuing to make these outrageous remarks, but what I do want him to be very clear about, as well as all of you and the American people, is that when I say I find these comments appalling, I mean it. It contradicts everything that I’m about and who I am. And anybody who has worked with me, who knows my life, who has read my books, who has seen what this campaign’s about, I think will understand that it is completely opposed to what I stand for and where I want to take this country.”
Is the Wright saga behind him? No. The question won’t go away. If the sanitized version prompted this outrage from Obama now, why did he sit in Wright’s congregation for 20 years?
And Wright. What could possibly lead him to do his dead-level best to destroy Obama’s candidacy. It’s either ego or the man really does so hate America that he’d work to prevent it from getting what he should see as the more enlightened leadership in the White House that could “change” the practices and policies he hates. Toxic.
Comments
By Just Nasty and Mean
April 30, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
What Obama will try to do—now—will be for pure, unadulterated political expediency: Obama will attempt to draw distance between himself and Wright.
However, what Obama cannot extricate himself from, what he cannot compromise, the anchor he drags and cannot shake—is a clear explanation of why he sat in Wright’s church, exposing his wife and children to bizarre ranting and blatant racial hate speech—for 20 YEARS!!!
We have seen snippets of it come out (“…I have never been proud to be an American”, “America is mean”, “~~middle America is bitter”, hanging around with unrepentant terrorists-Bill Ayers…..it is all there…..
There is only one explanation. Obama believes this tripe himself but is too politically motivated to speak it aloud for all to hear.
There are so many dark shadows around Obama we cannot risk handing our country over to him.
By TBird
April 30, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
WOW!!! What else can you say about Rev Wright. He is either being paid by Hillary or he is the most narsasistic person in the world!
I’m ready for Wright’s counter. Get ready because you know it’s comin’!
By Taxpayer
April 30, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this
Incessant, aren’t we Jim? How much coverage have you done on the Iraq war or Bush’s efforts to re-write our rights in the name of security? Well, if you can’t think of anything good to say about the Republican candidate, then attack the competition. Isn’t that the jest of it, Jim. About like the justification for killing others — shoot them because they’ll to shoot me eventually. You’ve beat the crap out of the competition. How about doing the counter-point thing and tell us all the great things about McCain. You know, the Republican candidate that even you would not include in your rankings of potential candidates during the primaries. I just can’t wait. Toxic is as toxic does. Pick the lesser of the evils — just as soon as you re-define that person. Good show, Jim.
By jbmlaw
April 30, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. I saw a brilliant argument on this blog @ 1:43 Monday afternoon: “Obama distanced himself from “some” of the bullfrog’s statements but, as always, without specificity. It is squarely within Obama’s hands to stop the bleeding. If I was his consultant I would urge him to hold a low key press conference, repeat each inflammatory line and say something like “no rational democrat believes that, and I don’t believe that.” … The worst thing that can happen to Obama is that which is ongoing, the bullfrog conducting interviews with Bill Moyers defending the views….Those interviews will only separate Obama from the normal people, reminding them on a daily basis what the lunatic said, and that Obama calls him “uncle” and trusted advisor. The second best solution for Obama is to have the CIA capture the bullfrog, and hide him at GTMO until after the election.”
The only remaining issue for Obama will be the explanation: why, in a time of war, America should elect a man who watched a “trusted advisor” for 20 years and never perceived the latter was a lunatic? How can Obama prove his ability to connect the dots?
By sharon
April 30, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this
I can’t believe we are still bringing this man up! The speeches in question were made over four years ago, the man is retired and he has every right to come out clear his name and accept awards. This is pure politics. People can’t find any smoking guns in Obama’s closet so they use a man he loves against him. The bottom line is, people who are bothered by Reverend Wright’s comments and using them against Obama were never planning to vote for Obama anyway.
By ron
April 30, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this
Good morning,Barak Obama is 20 years too late with his denouncing of the Rev. Wright.Way,way too late.Obama is probably not as radical as Wright,but I hesitate to think just what thoughts are in his mind regarding the U.S.I’ve said before that I don’t trust him and this denunciation,coming as it has,doesn’t give me any warm and fuzzy feelings about him now.He needs to be sent packing.He has been exposed.
By Marie
April 30, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this
It is strange how history often repeats itself and trust me we will now witness the MalcolmXing of Barack Obama by Rev. Wright.
Howard Dean said one of the remaining Democratic candidates need to pull out of this campaign by June; well Barack you need to start writing that withdrawal speech because your “betrayal” of Rev. Wright will not go without retribution.
As a long-time member of the “black” church I know that there are members of every church who are fanatic, supporters of their pastor. And the speech by Barack on yesterday will be seen as a betrayal of Rev. Wright by some members of the church. And today Rev. Wright is quoted as calling it just that in the NY Times.
Now you will hear from members of that church who will say Barack Obama and/or his wife were indeed there when some of these bombastic sermons were delivered; something Barack has denied and continues to deny.
Even more interesting and what no one in the media has pointed out is this. Did Barack Obama ever at anytime during his campaign for the senate of IL or the US; deliver his own political speeches in that church? If so, what did he say and were those speeches recorded? I find it hard to believe (since many black churches allow politicians to campaign within their church) that Rev. Wright did not extend this privilege to Barack Obama. And I dare say that the Barack Obama who speaks to a diverse national audience about unity, hope and change will probably deliver a different message to an “at-home” crowd that he feels more comfortable around.
As a black conservative I do not agree with Barack Obama on many substantive issues and would never vote for him under any circumstances. However, I would hate to see this man brought down by a jealous, petty man who has his butt on his shoulder because he sees Barack enjoying the popularity that he craves for himself. And I fear that is exactly what we are about to witness. Hold on folks this about to get REAL UGLY!!!!
By Redneck Convert
April 30, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this
Well, its been a real bad day already. This a.m. I filled up the beer truck. It come to $780 and when I give the bill to the warehouse boss he about had a stroke. Said I couldn’t haul enough beer to make up for that kind of cost and something had to be done. Anyway, he kind of hinted I better be looking for another job because the co. couldn’t make no profit with that kind of cost.
I’m real upset. When I voted Republican I thought Republicans would get rewarded and the libruls would get punished. Now with food costs and everything else going up I’m about to get layed off. What kind of country is this anyway? I vote for Fambly Values and now my fambly is about to starve. That ain’t a value.
I saw where My President blamed Congress for the mess. Congress won’t let us drill for oil up there in Alaska—something about the mooses and all that junk. And they won’t go for nucleer plants and drilling everywhere else. Well, something got to be done. We need a nucleer power plant right here in Atlanta. If Those People raise too much of a stink about putting it in their area I’m sure some Patriot like Sister Dusty wouldn’t mind having it in her town. Same for drilling for oil. I know people like jbmlaw are Patriotic and wouldn’t mind having a oil well next door.
Anyhow, this towelhead Obama deserves what he gets from his preacher. He wants us to believe he went to church for 20 years and heard the guy preach and never heard none of these lies till now. I guess he thinks us voters just fell off of the turnip truck. It won’t do him no good to trash the preacher now. We all know Obama went to a Muslim school and bows to Mecca five times every day and wants us to surrender to Iran and won’t say the pledge and won’t put his hand over his heart when they play the National Anthem. So its no suprize his preacher hates white people and America.
Its OK for a white preacher to kind of get upset and preach not obeying the law and blaming the guvmint for so many problems. But when one of Those People does it we got real problems. People better realize Those People are about to take over in this country and vote for the Republican McCain, even if he is a librul. Leastwise he’s our librul.
Have a good day everybody and keep your eye out if you spot a job I might be able to get. This is all real disgusting.
By v. A. Rogers
April 30, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
Rev. Wright did us a great favor. Now we can know what Obama is really “hoping” for. Perhaps he will also get Obama to define the “Change” in America he wants.
By Believer
April 30, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this
You just gotta believe that Clinton, Obama, and McCain are three people that are simply unworthy of the Office of President of the USA. What other conclusion, based on the evidence, could a rational person reach. So, the only logical thing to do is not vote for them. Why settle for the lesser of the evils. Vote for Ron Paul or Bob Barr.
By naiima8
April 30, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
I started to read this…but your opening paragraph is so ridiculus.
Obama did not throw his grandmother under the bus. He spoke the truth about there being differing levels of racism in many people. If you even refuse to acknowledge this truth you should probably stay off this topic.
I wish journalism were really about presenting facts rather than the ignorant and biased views of the ill prepared reporter.
By naiima8
April 30, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
I started to read this…but your opening paragraph is so ridiculus.
Obama did not throw his grandmother under the bus. He spoke the truth about there being differing levels of racism in many people. If you even refuse to acknowledge this truth you should probably stay off this topic.
I wish journalism were really about presenting facts rather than the ignorant and biased views of the ill prepared reporter.
By Jan Obermier
April 30, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
Wright is toxic, no doubt.
What about the torture camps setup in Guantanamo Bay and off the coast of North Carolina? Are they toxic ? You bet !
By John
April 30, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me” - Barack Obama on Pastor Wright, during his so called “glorious” speech What? Are you kidding me? Wright is not saying anything different now than he has been for the 20 years Barack as idolized him!!!
Barack is a liar and a flip-flopper. Barack is finished. STOP wasting time on this guy!! GET HIM OUT!!!
Universal Healthcare and taking care of the working class, that’s what Hillary is about!! Go Hillary!!
By Mekso
April 30, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
This article is very silly and simply written.
And if you have time to waste on this media distraction then we all serve a broken economy and $4 a gallon gas.
John Wooten you are truly a part of the problem. Where was all this wisdom pre Iraq invasion?
By who cares
April 30, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
The only CHANGES OBAMA would make are: 1. White people will pay reparations 2. White people willbe slaves for 100 yrs 3. White people will give up their posessions to black 4. Obama would make us an Islamic country 5. Any White person that disagreed with him would have to move 6. The Black value system of No blacks in jail under the oppressed law would be enforced.
By md
April 30, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
Jim, It seems to me that Senator Obama can’t possibly do enough to satisfy some folks. At least those who are looking for some ridiculus justification for not supporting him. Truth be told, no presidential candidate has ever been expected to have anticipated some 20 years back what simply joining a church with a particular pastor would end up costing them. It’s not just Senator Clinton who’s throwing everything including the kitchen sink and Barack Obama, it’s the press too. Your contempt is thinly vailed at best. WE know you (and SMALL TOWN AMERICA) don’t want him as the next president of the United States and WE know why… Somethings never change.
By Jeff
April 30, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
I’m with believer. I’ve said it over and over again: I will NOT vote for ANY Democan or Republicrat with the sole exception of Ron Paul.
It is time for the rise of a genuine SECOND party. Not a third party, because then there would have to be two distinct parties already, and the Democans and Republicrats are really one and the same now. (Current Republicrats are simply old-school Southern Democrats. I cite both Zell Miller and Sonny Perdue as prime examples.)
If you vote for either a Democan or Republicrat, you are voting for extreme left or halfway between extreme left and center. The only choice on the right now is the Libertarian Party.
Libertarian ‘08!
By asian doctor
April 30, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
IT IS OVER FOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
DECEPTION AND LIES CAN ONLY FO FAR.
TRUTH IS HUSSEIN OBAMA HAS NO JUDGEMENT AND USED THESE BLACK PREACHERS TO GET ELECTED IN ILLINOIS SENATE AND US SENATE BUT HE CANT DO IT IN A NATIONAL ELECTION BECAUSE THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS NOT NAIVE LIKE HIS OWN TRIBE.
By Kneejerk
April 30, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this
You’re free to say “You bet”, just so long as you’re aware of your unwitting role in validating the paternalistic cycle that celebrates the machismo of gambling and of all games of chance. How else to explain the gamble in Iraq? Hmmmn?
By Mekso
April 30, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this
This article is very silly and simply written.
And if you have time to waste on this Wright media distraction then I guess you are happy with a broken economy and $4 a gallon gas.
John Wooten your myopia is truly a part of the problem. Where was all this wisdom pre Iraq invasion?
By Peg
April 30, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this
For much of this campaign, Senator Obama has said that “judgment” was a legitimate issue and questioned Senator Clinton’s judgment in voting for the Iraq resolution. So now we have Senator Obama and his judgment — which has been very bad.
By Dette
April 30, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wright is stopping US from having OUR First Black President. Who is Paying him.???!!!! He is awfully Yellow…..
By TW
April 30, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
But Jim’s talking about Rev Wright’s words.
There was a time when the media was our best ‘check and balance.’ Now it’s just capitalism’s w h o r e…
By CJ
April 30, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
Obama could ‘no more disown Rev. Wright than his own white grandmother’. I guess Granny is sitting out in the cold right now!!!
Obama is crap. Hillary has class and doesn’t associated with racist heathens, unlike Obama who is a fair weather friend to them!
By RCH
April 30, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
Sharon
These extremist from his past are the “smoking gun.” Remember, birds of a feather flock together.
By the way,Rev. Wright doesn’t want you to know that he will be living in a brand new 10,000 sq. foot home in a gated golf community. It is 98% white. For someone who hates whites to a great extent he sure likes living next to them!
By GW
April 30, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
My true believers,
Let me just say that it is a good thing that we don’t have any candidates that attend a Catholic church — or at least not for no 20 years. Otherwise, we would have to denounce that person for associating with those preachers and their choir boys. After all, they had to know and believe themselves, didn’t they.
By Aquagirl
April 30, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
The Obama apologists are up early today. Since Redneck is up too, he must have stopped last night before finishing the whole case of Milwaukee’s Best. It’s a great day on the blog.
I think Rev. Wright is justified in his own mind. It’s the only explanation I can offer for his continuing nutcase behavior. Obama has wrecked his candidacy by refusing to distance himself earlier. Theirs is a society where it’s perfectly normal to accept the government invented AIDS to kill black people, and the US is a terrorist nation. Obama and the good Reverend are puzzled as to why this is such a big deal to those of us outside their bubble. They really can’t get why such casually held racist/ anti-American sentiment is viewed as unacceptable.
By morris
April 30, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this
what polls are you reading that says clinton is within 5 pts in NC and solidly ahead in Indiana.You guys want to go against Hillary so bad,because thats the only way to energize your base.Becuse you know John Mccain is not the guy.
By Glenn
April 30, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
Excuse me, Jim? Did you say that Rev. Wright “must have an ego the size of California”?
Heck, it’s gotta be something on the order of Texas to hold that dude. In fact, his ego’s so Alaskan in scale that he can’t even look to points North, nor East nor South nor West, without all he sees is Wrightland, and his boy Barack, his spiritual son, looking to be the new upstart caretaker of the Land of Wright…
By KV
April 30, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
You know what’s most disturbing about this entire debacle? The fact that white Americans absolutely refuse to have legitimate conversations about race, but would rather use sound bites and the opinions of one to satisfy the everyone else’s opinions. Another disturbing thing…the fact that black Americans are so blind. There are two things a white male (who by the way, dominates most things in American society) does not want to owe submission: a woman (whatever color she is) and a black man. Accordingly, white males(who also happen to dominate mainstream media) are doing everything in their power to destroy BOTH democratic candidates in an effort to get McCain elected. I don’t care who you are…if you don’t have enough intelligence to know that another 4 Republican years is insanity, then you don’t deserve to vote.
By Dan
April 30, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
I am honestly curious to know how many people who think that Wright’s self-absorbed egomania is somehow representative of the way Barack Obama thinks have actually taken the time to read any of Barack’s books.
It’s fine to think that soundbites on FOX News give a window into a man’s mind, but Obama is one of those unique candidates where you have a vessel through which you can clearly see the man as he was before the presidential campaign started, in the form of two bestseller books.
If one takes the time to read the Audacity of Hope, which is written so well it’s easy to get through, one finds that everything Barack Obama says now, he also published in book form two years ago. Can one claim his opinions are reactively spin-doctored flim-flammery when one can find them in print before the campaign started?
Even if one’s going to condemn a man, one should take the time to properly research one’s condemnation
By JQCitizen
April 30, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this
Obama freely subscribed to 20 years of this religious lunatics ranting and only now begins to distance himself. Not demonstrable traits of a leader, more like apathy.
By KV
April 30, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
You know what’s most disturbing about this entire debacle? The fact that white Americans absolutely refuse to have legitimate conversations about race, but would rather use sound bites and the opinions of one to satisfy the everyone else’s opinions. Another disturbing thing…the fact that black Americans are so blind. There are two things a white male (who by the way, dominates most things in American society) does not want to owe submission: a woman (whatever color she is) and a black man. Accordingly, white males(who also happen to dominate mainstream media) are doing everything in their power to destroy BOTH democratic candidates in an effort to get McCain elected. I don’t care who you are…if you don’t have enough intelligence to know that another 4 Republican years is insanity, then you don’t deserve to vote.
By lee
April 30, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Come on now. I don’t agree with everything my pastor says. There are some very real differences in beliefs but I do believe in God and Christ. Now regarding “Middle America”…I am middle America…a town of 900, 7 miles outside of a larger city of 25000 in the middle income area and affected by the housing prices, gas, etc. I have pride and hope in America and I see that hope reflected in Obama.
I hope he makes it because I think he IS our real hope.
By Ray
April 30, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Marie,
The best post today. Black conservative? You are as rare as hen’s teeth. Wish there were more like you. Maybe we wouldn’t have the problems we have today.
By Let it go
April 30, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Hey people let’s be fair. There are other Pastor’s that have made left field comments recently too. How about you give fair scrunity to the out of line disrespectful comments from Crazy Pat Buchannan. What he said out of line as well…. And before it is said I know he is not running for office either BUT neither is Rev.Wright. I am sure if you dig into the past you would find some out of line comments from Rev. Graham as well especially in the 60’s. So why don’t you just let this go… And talk about why the heck I paid $55.00 for gas yesterday as the gas companies announced huge profits again. Nobody seemed bothered that W and his daddy where in bed with these companies when they ran for office. Years later we are all paying for there bed fellows. These Jedi mind tricks don’t work. Come on people, get back to what matters. Or dig up dirty on everyone so we all know who is sleeping with what enemies.
By Malacandra
April 30, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
With all this focus on Reverend Wright, you’d think it’d be fair to bring up the fact that John McCain actually sought out the support of the bigot Rev. John Hagee.
But there’s no controversy when a white, right-wing preacher says hateful unAmerican things. And there’s no reason for a Republican candidate to distance himself from such statements. It’s accepted that John McCain isn’t the same guy as John Hagee, whereas anything that Wright does is supposed to reflect on Obama.
The double-standard is astonishing.
By Ray
April 30, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this
Marie,
The best post today. Black conservative? You are as rare as hen’s teeth. Wish there were more like you. Maybe we wouldn’t have the problems we have today.
By brad
April 30, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
The only reason this is an issue is because the media loves Obama and is obsessed with everything about him. As a political issue; who cares? This is so shallow and will have nothing to do with how the next president effects your day to day life. John McCain actively seeks the endorsements of crackpot religious extremists, showering them with praise (e.g. Pastor Hagee); a cranky old multi-millionaire proposing of the most ridiculous do-nothing policy plans I’ve ever heard. He understands nothing but war — and he barely even seems to understand that, really, as his confusion about the Sunni and Shia illustrates. Hillary is a callow liar who will play any dirty trick in the book to grab political power, and who has blundered a campaign in which she started 20 points ahead and had every advantage in world, showing what a lousy and inexperienced manager she is when it comes to broad operations (she’s shown in before during her husband’s administration too.) Obama is a bright, charismatic guy of good character and judgment, who’s spent most of his life trying to help regular people, who happens to have a cranky pastor. I know his enemies desperately want that to be a big deal, but grow up. You’ve never had someone who was important to your life and did good things for you who was also a bit of crank or who had some stupid views? Most of the time Wright just preached the Gospel. What can you do. I just feel bad for Obama that this guy wants to be in front of the cameras so much. I don’t think it’ll matter but if they manage to sink him with this, don’t be surprised when the dirt that surfaces on McCain and Clinton is 10x worse. It’s out there if you look for it, it’s just not making the 24 hr news cycle — yet.
By Lisa W
April 30, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
Did anyone see the LA Times article yesterday that Ms. Reynolds, a big-time Clinton supporter, arranged the press conference and was sitting next to Wright at the press conference?
The article suggests the Clinton Campaign is behind Wright’s sudden entrance into the media spotlight.
READ IT!
By brad
April 30, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
The only reason this is an issue is because the media loves Obama and is obsessed with everything about him. As a political issue; who cares? This is so shallow and will have nothing to do with how the next president effects your day to day life. John McCain actively seeks the endorsements of crackpot religious extremists, showering them with praise (e.g. Pastor Hagee); he’s a cranky old multi-millionaire proposing some of the most ridiculous do-nothing policy plans I’ve ever heard. He understands nothing but war — and he barely even seems to understand that, really, as his confusion about the Sunni and Shia illustrates. Hillary is a callow liar who will play any dirty trick in the book to grab political power, and who has blundered a campaign in which she started 20 points ahead and had every advantage in world, showing what a lousy and inexperienced manager she is when it comes to broad operations (she’s shown in before during her husband’s administration too.) Obama is a bright, charismatic guy of good character and judgment, who’s spent most of his life trying to help regular people, who happens to have a cranky pastor. I know his enemies desperately want that to be a big deal, but grow up. You’ve never had someone who was important to your life and did good things for you who was also a bit of crank or who had some stupid views? Most of the time Wright just preached the Gospel. What can you do. I just feel bad for Obama that this guy wants to be in front of the cameras so much. I don’t think it’ll matter but if they manage to sink him with this, don’t be surprised when the dirt that surfaces on McCain and Clinton is 10x worse. It’s out there if you look for it, it’s just not making the 24 hr news cycle — yet.
By Tonia
April 30, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
How is it possible to associate with a man for 20 years, call him your mentor, regularly attend his sermons, and NOT know that he has such extreme views? Answer: It’s not! This cannot have been the first time Mr. Obama has seen this side of Jeremiah Wright. However, it may be the first time Mr. Obama has seen a totally different reaction than what he usually saw while seated in the church pew.
By redneck
April 30, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
Dan, I did read excerpts from his books and all I saw was a devout socialist who thought that the only reason socialism had failed in other places was because the “right” people were not in charge!!!
By BS Aplenty
April 30, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
Dan
Interesting thoughts, however,…
Candidates’ books are generally propaganda many times vetted for adherence to the party gospel. The end result is a puff-piece of historical literature, more akin to Steele (Danielle) than to Gibbon. It might be useful to read Obama’s book but not nearly as useful as seeing him thrown in the (political) fire.
Anybody got a bucket of water?
By Bosch
April 30, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this
Jeremiah Wright needs Barack Obama to fail. He can not have Obama become President because then he will not be able play the victim.
By Dave
April 30, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
I keep wanting to have a bumper sticker that reads “OBAMA is the best you got? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?” All the Obama apologists just bering up “It’s because he’s black, isn’t it?” Now the Libs are melting down because the media is ACTUALLY showing some chinks in the armor of a Democratic candidate. That’s why they hate Fox News. Fox actually shows BOTH side of the fence instead of the others that, until recently, have bash all things Republican, found a negative spin on anything a Republican did and glorified Clinton first and now Obama. Hey Dems and Libs, doesn’t feel so hot when the worm turns, does it?
By jbmlaw
April 30, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
OK, I’m under-whelmed with almost everything I know about John McCain, mostly political junk, but Karl Rove is making me rethink some. I still have serious doubts about his politics, but if half of the stuff in this article is true, McCain is truly a great man. By any measure the contrast with Obama’s shuck and jive, and with the Clintons, staggers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120951606847454685.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
By The Truth
April 30, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
If Obama wins then the race hustlers such as Jesse and Al will be out of business. The Revvvv is also in trouble because he preaches hate whitey. Also, this man talks about how rich white people control everything yet HE IS MOVING IN TO A $10 MILLION HOME. How’s that for hypocrisy?
By Truthifier
April 30, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this
Dan @ 9:24, you have hit on the salient question of this entire situation, but not in the way you think. While you make a good argument, you are not recognizing that the hypothetical scenario you describe is exactly what people fear. Do you really think that Senator Obama had given no thought to running for President when he wrote his books? Anytime a Member of Congress starts writing their autobiography and putting out books on hope, change, or patriotism, you can bet that they are gearing up for a run for higher office! I have no idea whether or not Senator Obama agrees with the views of Reverend Wright, but I do know that people leave churches every week because they find that they cannot, by their presence, condone the words they are hearing from the pulpit. Does Reverend Wright have the right to believe whatever he wants? Sure! But the public also has the right to know if the man who is asking for their vote agrees with those views, and that question, because of the long-standing personal relationship, has not yet been answered for many people. One speech denouncing Reverend Wright’s political views does not necessarily erase twenty years of mentoring and spiritual guidance.
By RCH
April 30, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
KV
white males(who also happen to dominate mainstream media) are doing everything in their power to destroy BOTH democratic candidates in an effort to get McCain elected.
I would consider the N.Y. Times mainstream media. What where they thinking when they published the piece concerning an alleged affair between John McCain and a female political lobbyist? was that supposed to get him elected? LOL
By Dan
April 30, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
It just bothers me so very much that our democracy has come to the point where these nothing issues become centerpieces of elections and legislation.
Don’t agree with Obama’s capital gains tax platform? Fine, I can understand that. Don’t like his health care reform issues? Fine, I can understand that, too. Don’t like his war stance? Understandable… but guilt by association? Political death by friendship? Is that really where we’ve come, or where we want to be?
Personally, I think very little has damaged our democratic process as thoroughly as the need to fill time on twenty-four hour news channels and all of the little stories built into obsessive national frenzies to sell commercials.
Take Terry Schiavo - Sad story, but there are a hundred just like it in hospitals and nursing homes every day, and yet Congress feels the need to get directly involved in this one case. Why? Because the media built it into a brand, and it gets their faces on TV screens where conducting the business of the nation doesn’t.
It just saddens me that this kind of manufactured innuendo piece actually stands a far greater chance of shaping the future of the nation than, say, campaign reform or foreign policy, because we’re now a nation that takes TMZ over the Wall Street Journal when it comes to journalistic style
By Dennis
April 30, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten writes, “[Jeremiah Wrigth] must have an ego the size of California to continue a string of public appearances —- especially one before the press club — where he surely must know that he harms Obama’s chances of being elected President.”
Egos? Egos?! Let’s talk about egos.
Who on FOX doesn’t have an EGO, EGO, EGO?
Chris Wallace should be taken seriously?
Then there’s William Kristol who’s lived in a bubble all of his life, along with his other misinformation buddies.
And these guys are just for warmups.
Write about a real ego. For example, what about a vice president who shrugs his shoullders and says about the deaths of four thousand American soldiers, “So what?”
“So what?!”
That was an OBSCENE, egotistical, self-centered remark, but you let that one go, Mr. Wooten!
If you’re going to be an editor and write opinions, Mr. Wooten, at least write about something or someone important.
The Jeremiah Wright issue is history, Mr. Wooten. And Barack Obama is still a shinning star.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Well, all this talk about “toxic” and the “purge”. Wonder when Obama is going to “purge” the anti-Americanism comments his wife has espoused?
Another question. When are liberals going to realize that George W. Bush is NOT running for a third term? Like Obama, is it going to take 20 years for them to find out what is going on? Just count the number of Bush references made on this blog by poor lib losers. They will throw the country “under the bus” if they could elect a Democratic president. They keep fuming over the last election and concocting conspiracies that never happened.
Just wait until McCain is elected. Baseless accusations will fall like rain. RedNeck gives a good example of the undercover “ignorant” act of lib propaganda pretenders. The beer is furnished by DNC.
By dannygirl
April 30, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Does it matter that Barack Obama finally dounces his irreverent racist Pastor? The issue is Barack Obama’s Character. Barack Obama’s Muslim, Marxist/Socialist friends and back ground. His mother was secular humanist (atheist). Both his father and step fathers were Muslims. Obama attended a prominent Muslim Madrassa in Indonesia Not his color. Let’s not forget . His Affiliation with Rezko that the “Timesonline” and “DailyTelegraph” were the first to expose this. Then his is double talk with Canada. Lets not his songs to Mexico. Trying to give illegal aliens the Dream Act in California.
What is this? I whine my way into the White House? We are to be “sorry” for Obama. Obama is grown man. A “sorry” vote? Or, if you do not want to vote for Barack Obama, then you are a racist.? I’m a black woman. I don’t want vote for Barack Hussein Obama because of stand on abortion, homosexuality, illegal immigration, and his communist views.
In his much praised, but mediocre speech, he made excuses and blamed America for Rev Wright racist views. He said “white men were angry with illegal immigrants because they feared immigrants (illegal aliens) were here to take their jobs and looked different from them.” Exactly what color is illegal alien anyway? He did it again when he said Midwesterners were bitter and cling on to God and guns, and were against trade. Yet he has consistently made fun for of Bush and Clinton for NAFTA. The same retoriche used, all the while he was making deals with the priminister (Harper) of Canada.
So this “denouncing” Barack Obama is doing is Political. Now he will do this to save his very faulty campaign. I don’t want to vote for him. Because of his character. so we are supposed to be stupid now? And just vote for Obama now that he finally (SO WHAT!!!) denounces his racist pastor of 23 years.
I hope people will see this next move. It’s phony. We are supposed to feel “sorry” for Barack Hussien Obama. Awwwww. Now, Obama is not at fault at all? Yes he is. It’s a farce. Don’t let Obama off the hook. No we do not all know each other. We do not all support evil together……………
By Sheesh
April 30, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
Well, God forbid we had a candidate who understood Islam as more than “those people with bombs and things”.
Just think of the consequences of a president who thought of Muslims as real people!
Oh, the horror
By Aquagirl
April 30, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
Dan @ 9:24, if you think we must exhaustively research a candidate’s books, I hope you enjoyed “It Takes A Village,” and Hillary Clinton’s other books.
By GaLiberal
April 30, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Moron Jim said: No question Jeremiah Wright is toxic. His view of America, as expressed in the National Press Club speech, is so vile that Barack Obama finally did something he could no longer avoid. He threw him under the bus, just as he’d done to his white grandmother last month in Philadelphia.
What Moron Jim didn’t tell you is that his right-wing racist Rethuglicon bootlickers have endlessly played 10-15 second sound bites from sermons over several years. This presented a very skewed view as these sound bites lacked the overall context. Of course, it does the Rethuglicons no good to be fair about this situation; it would give them nothing to rile over. I could engage in the same cherry picking and make George Bush (quite easily) or Dick Cheney (even easier) sound like a lapel pin wearing Nazi. Then the Rethuglicon bootlickers would howl about how that’s unfair. But no such outrage in this case. Just another way for the Rethuglicon faithful to justify their own racism.
Wright clearly fell off the deep end, but only because he was pushed hard from behind. He believed he was being attacked and misrepresented (which he was) and lashed out at his attackers. Of course it was irrational, but that’s not what mattered. It just provided an open door for racist people to justify their racism.
As to Obama throwing his mother under the bus, that again is just more proof that Moron Jim and the Rethuglicons don’t get it when it comes to race. I’ve had discussions with people of color (actually black is the absence of color while white is the presence of all colors) and there is a huge perception problem on both parts. Moron Jim and the Rethuglicons are just taking advantage of that problem. It’s called divide and conquer.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And the political assassination of Wright is living proof.
By Truthifier
April 30, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this
Remember back when a senior advisor to the Obama campaign went to the Canadian consulate in Chicago and told them that the Senator’s public statements on NAFTA were more about political posturing than policy? Now, Jeremiah Wright says that the Senator’s statements about his relationship with his pastor and his views is just political posturing. Only Mr. Obama knows how he really feels about these issues, but there does seem to be pattern developing of Mr. Obama being accused of just saying what he has to say to win.
By The Truth
April 30, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
Dan, We’re not a democracy we’re a republic. Please get your facts straight.
Dennis, Why does ONE news channel bother you so much? Egos? Here’s a list of egos for you.
Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Larry King, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Andy Rooney, Walter Cronkite. Is that good enough for you? There are 4 major news stations that are liberal to the bone. Why does one channel like Fox bother you so much?
By Anne Russell
April 30, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Jeremiah was a bullfrog…..
By slinkymalinky
April 30, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this
Wright’s victimization sermon is being preached at black people in churches all over America.
Funny how Obama is just now realizing that this sermon ain’t from the Bible!!
By The Truth
April 30, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
GaLiberal, Escaped from the mental institution have we? I love your catchy names like rethuglicon and you always seem to end on the same sentence. Your head should be examined.
By Dennis
April 30, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
“As for Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who served his country honorably with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam and brilliantly as a Navy medic, you would have to be a complete moron to hold his words against him, when his actions in service to the United States speak so much more loudly. That his country continued to treat his fellow African Americans as second-class citizens despite their often heroic service in two World Wars, and Korea and Vietnam, speaks with a deafening voice, ever more so than a few expressions of anger and frustration.”
Frances Assaf Athens Banner Herald Aug/30/08
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Dan
April 30, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
“Dan @ 9:24, if you think we must exhaustively research a candidate’s books, I hope you enjoyed “It Takes A Village,” and Hillary Clinton’s other books.”
I didn’t really enjoy It Takes A Village as much. I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t like her writing style as much, which honestly I don’t, or if it’s because I’m more attracted to Barack’s focus on removing “distractions” from campaigns and assertions that positive campaigns need to make a comeback for the health of our democracy.
By Glenn
April 30, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
KV @ 9:23,
What recondite corner of hell did you crawl out of, to think that a forked and four-legged creature like you would have the STANDING to make some sillyarsed judgment about my white folk having some major problem finding somebody who’ll talk racial-exorcism with them?
That’s some seriously sick old bad backyonderism you’re nurturing there, Changeling. I suggest you get that looked at…
By Dave
April 30, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
The Truth has it right. The fact of the matter is any time a media outlet shows and OTHER viewpoint than the Liberal/Democratic spin, it’s viewed as “hate speech”. That’s why the Liberals have the stereo type of “Don’t confuse me with facts! I know I’m right!”. Anything involving personal responsibility, free enterprise or making hard decisions for the long haul just makes them shriek and howl about “You are SO mean!” Liberals just look to the government and say “Gimme Gimme…”
By Dan
April 30, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
The Truth @ 10:30 AM,
If only this blog had a rolling eyes emote.
Welcome to the Internet, where nitpickery replaces substantive discussion
By Jim Gordon
April 30, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
I’m not sure the Democrat party can survive Obama. If he is elected, he will be such a Jimmy Carter style disaster the party will split. The moderate and conservative democrats will disavow (for generations) the left wingers. If he loses the nomination, the left will (for generations) disavow the moderate and conservative democrats. He is clearly a lose-lose candidate. Almost like a republican sleeper, sent in to destroy the democrat party. The democrat party may win in the short run, but I predict it will suffer for years and years because of this fiasco.
By @@
April 30, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
So Jim! I read an article the other day where farmers are culling their herds due to the increase in gas and the cost of alternative fuels.
Same thing in politics.
The GAS of Reverend Wright has killed the HOPE of AN ALTERNATIVE.
Obama’s BIO FUELS are dead.
Democrats now have a HILL to climb.
Getalife back into their campaign.
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Let’s see
Another three U.S. soldiers died today in Iraq. Bringing the total for April to 47. Making it the deadliest month since September.
And, here we are talking about Wright.
What a shame!
By JK
April 30, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this
I don’t mind a little forthright conversation on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy and the reasons Islamic radicals decided attack us. It’s a valid discussion to have going forward, much more so than Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell trying to blame 9-11 on gay rights or abortions. (Watch out for the purple teletubbie!) Ditto the absurd notion that God sent Katrina to punish sin in NOLA, but somehow missed the Sin HQ French Quarter and flooded the churches of the meek and poor (bad aim, perhaps?)
BUT, when Rev. Wright started mocking and deriding “white” marching bands (they’re school and college kids!), I thought: what could that possibly accomplish? Why would a pastor humiliate youngsters for participating in something besides, drugs, sex, and crime? Oh yeah, because it’s okay to make fun of white kids for not being black. That’s telling.
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
GaLiberal@10:23
You do more damage to your party than any Republican could ever do. Your vocabulary alone is a real ‘turn off’ for anybody sensible.
Let’s see: Moron Jim, Rethuglicon, Nazi, bootlickers and the prize statement political assassination of Wright. You get the booby price, bud. Just keep showing your real personality that even a mother couldn’t love.
By tim tschosik
April 30, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this
The good pastor just wants to extend that sweet 15 minutes. Perhaps a sign that racism as an industry is losing steam. Who will replace Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others? Do they actually need replacement? They got a long profitable career out of racism. That well appears to be drying up.
By Obamamania
April 30, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
First off, no hater responses. McCainiacs and Hilliacs, dont mis-represent the truth. The truth is simply, Obama, Ayers, and Reverend Wright are Right! God D* america. The the stupid, bitter, racist “typical white people” of pennsylvania voted for clinton. How disgusting, now they have more blood on their hands. They could have made Michelle Obama proud, but only proved her point that this is a “mean country”. Ok, so now we need to bob and weave and do the politician thing to get these typical white people to vote for us. It will work because Obama is a smarter than these stupid small town hicks, have faith, Obama is our Savior! The chickens are coming home to roost, if they wise up, they’ll stop buying guns to cling to, and save it for our reparations checks! Obama ””””08, Repartions Check, ””””09! http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/racism/0108 27.reparations.html
By Aquagirl
April 30, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
Dan, if you’re more into a candidate’s writings which are free from distractions, I suggest “Addressing Unmet Needs in Women’s Health: Hearing Before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions, U.S. Senate” by Senator Clinton. Though you’ll have to wait for it to become available on Amazon.com, somehow the sales don’t seem as snappy as “The Audacity of Hope.”
The good news is “Letters from Socks and Buddy” is immediately available. There is sure to be some insight into her political plans in those pages.
All sarcasm aside, I have misgivings about a candidate who doesn’t seem to live in political reality. Obama knew long ago he’d have to ditch his pastor. He showed a faint bit of common sense in realizing this fact. However, it’s the move of a politician, not some nice new dude who is Going To Change The World. And he showed poor judgment as to when to cut the umbilical cord to his deadweight mentor. This is not a guy I want to see negotiating with Vladmir Putin.
By Vote4me
April 30, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
Redneck convert— Seems like you already have a new job as a Democrat shill. No one believes your sorry act, nor do the republicans represent anything like you. You’re an embarrasment to respectable hillbillies and rednecks everywhere. Wright is a bitter old preacher who repeats discredited conspiracies and looks at the difficulties every person in this great country commonly faces as a personal plot against him and his followers. Life isn’t fair if you view fair as being equal to all. America isn’t about everyone being the same, it’s about everyone having a chance to do better than they were before. In all countries, there are privilaged and under-privilaged. In America, the difference is that birth does not equal destiny. Obama is an illustration of that very fact— only one person in the whole country is nominated from each party, only one person is elected every four years. The very fact that he is in the running ought to shut the mouth of fools who preach America as the land of hate. Quite honestly, the only place you can find perfection is in Heaven, so instead of complaining about the problems, be part of the solution. And vote for me.
By Scholar
April 30, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this
I have to agree with Jim on this one. You just can’t make me believe that Obama knew this man for 20 years and had no clue as to what he was about. Either he knew Wright’s beliefs and agreed, knew and disagreed, or was so oblivious that he did not see what was going one. None of those scenarios is acceptable. I was considering Obama until this Wright fiasco. Now, I am starting to look seriously at Hillary, and God help me, McCain.
By 2BFREE
April 30, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this
I heard someone say this yesterday and it made perfect sense. Rev. Wright does not want Obama to become President. If Obama is elected, then all his ranting about how this country is ran by whites and how the country will not elect a black man (although I think we all know by now Obama is mixed race)will come true. But if Obama is elected, then Wright looks like the idiot he is.
The fact is, most of America has and can look beyond race as an issue. But if you have notice, it is the black community that can’t look beyond race. 80% of the black voters are voting for Obama, while Obama is still pulling about half the white votes. So it would seem that white voters are evenly split, but black voters are backing Obama regardless of his shortfalls. He could have worked with Myers and help set those bombs and it would not have mattered to most of his supporters.
I think Wright has succeeded in his goal. Obama will still get the Democratic ticket, but will not win the general election. Then Wright will scream “I told you so..America is still racist”.
By DaMost
April 30, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
YOU PEOPLE FOR THE MOST PART ARE IDIOTS!!! Jeremiah Wright is Clinton’s ace in the hole! The Clinton’s sought the very same reverend Jeremiah Wright for marriage counseling for his great wisdom. What does Hillary Clinton think of his wisdom now?!? Must be good, saved her marriage. When will you guys wake up and take your head out of the mud. Clinton is the old regime in new clothes. No change will come from this double talking, outright lying politician who helped bring us into this war. She was gutless then and will remain gutless and pandering to people while massaging corporations and the wealthy’s back. You people, we deserve what we get, see you in the bread lines.
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
You know what? I almost feel sorry for Obama. He has the nice innocent air of a lucky intelligent child who got a Harvard scholarship, a nice goody job as governor and then wrong voting senator. Oh, those baby brown eyes! So this nice kid tries for the presidency. Oh gee, why not??
Obama is better suited for the stage and Shakespeare. Just think. He could stroll on the stage with hand in pocket as Hamlet, roll out the senatorial words in pure sincerity and be the Prince of Denmark or somewhere. Fans would swoon in pure adoration.
Yep, that’s the job for Obama. Forget this dirty dabbling in politics. People throw mud and that messes up that nice facade of felicity. Time to exit this present stage of sorrows and find a new one.
By anonymous
April 30, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
Dusty, Mr. Obama was never governor. He was a State Senator.
By The Truth
April 30, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
Dan, All I’m trying to do is inform people that we are a republic and not a democracy. Big difference between the two.
Obamamania, You’ve got some serious issues. Right now you sound like the racist. No one should ever vote for someone just because he/she is black or white. Get over yourself.
By DaMost
April 30, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
Oh yeah, GaLiberal that statement is backwards,’(actually black is the absence of color while white is the presence of all colors)’. Black is the presence of all colors. Mix the primary colors together you get black, not white, put water on a black piece of paper shine light upon it and you will see all the primary colors. Can’t do that with the color white.
By Dan
April 30, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
“Dan, if you’re more into a candidate’s writings which are free from distractions, I suggest “Addressing Unmet Needs in Women’s Health: Hearing Before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions, U.S. Senate” by Senator Clinton. Though you’ll have to wait for it to become available on Amazon.com, somehow the sales don’t seem as snappy as “The Audacity of Hope.””
I’m more of an auditory person when it comes to that sort of thing. I do use Thomas to look up bills that I find interesting or objectionable, say - I read the text of the Patriot Act, for instance - but for the most part I’m lucky in that C-Span runs a free airwave radio service where I live, so I can listen to press conferences and committee hearings and such while I commute instead of putting up with DJ morning shows.
I think my two favorite things they run are the weekly parliamentary grilling of the British prime minister and the occasional session of the Supreme Court. The latter I like because it’s rather not unlike listening to a nine-interrogator dissertation defense on some topic of law, and the former I like because I really wish our system had some equivalent to it. Imagine if the President had to come before the Congress and the cameras once a week and field direct and uncomfortable questions from lawmakers about his policies and his decisions. I’d find that a nice step up from the safely snide jabs they toss at each other through reporters now…
By Dennis
April 30, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
By ghost rider April 30, 2008 10:46 AM “Let’s see. Another three U.S. soldiers died today in Iraq. Bringing the total for April to 47. Making it the deadliest month since September. And, here we are talking about Wright. What a shame!”
That’s the values of the mainstream media, “Thinking Right”, for you.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Regina
April 30, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
I think of all the white politicians who have sat and sit in their churches listening to segregation sermons, albeit subtle sermons, and didn’t denounce their pastors. Even now, how many of those congregations would still shake in their pews if a person of color entered their sanctuary? Why is a Black person’s affiliation with anything held up to higher scrutiny than a non-Black person? We know the answer but America doesn’t want to admit it or discuss it! Hillary’s and other politician’s affiliation with questionable people barely make a blip on the screen!
Wright also needs to sit down and shut up! I am tired of the egos of ministers such as Jackson, Sharpton, Wright and others who don’t know when to be quiet. America still refuses, even in this day and age, to separate a person of color from another person of color. We are all put in the same category regardless of our differences in income, educational level, family background, religion and other cultural differences. And if we don’t go along with the status quo for either the white community or the black community, we are labeled elitist or an “Uncle Tom”. These are just terms from each community to try to put a person of color back in their place that America has defined for them!
I look at the person and their character, not their skin color, so it angers me when I see this double standard happen again and again in America. It angers me to see the jealousy in people of color who think, “Why Obama? Why not me?
By Hillary
April 30, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
Jeremiah Wright is not running for president….I’m voting for Obama!!!!…..
By You're Crazy
April 30, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
You’re facts are completely flawed. How did Obama throw his grandmother under the bus? Better yet, what person would throw their grandmother under the bus? Why does the AJC even give you space on their website to write your completely biased views? Where was the outrage when Cheney said ‘so’ to Americans wanting troops out of Iraq. That seems to be a more important issue. Journalism itself is dead with empty, sullen opinions such as this one. Tell me why someone off the street couldn’t have written the same thing? Journalists are supposed to be viewed at a higher standard. No meat at all with this.
By willie b
April 30, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
“You know what? I almost feel sorry for Obama. He has the nice innocent air of a lucky intelligent child who got a Harvard scholarship, a nice goody job as governor”
Oh no! NOT DUSTY posting factually incorrect information again!
It must be in the water….By the way the library in Dekalb is open for research 4 days a week!
Where are my bananas?
And no, again. I will not accept your apology!
Isn’t it time to go ta ta?
By Acorny candidate
April 30, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this
Barack used blacks like all dems do.
No suprise from this voter.
Get a clue folks. It’s not about you.
It’s poison politics with a view.
By Will
April 30, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Dear Mr.Wooten:
Deviating from your subject today, did you notice that the military has reported that the number of deaths of our brave patriots in Iraq is at a seven month high?
The republican radio entertainers used the declining death rate in Iraq as a sign of success.
Do you think the democrat radio and tv entertainers will use the increase as a sign of failure?
Do you think there is an especially hot place in hades for those who use the deaths (up, down, or sideways) of our brave patriots to try to make a political point?
By anonymous
April 30, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Regina, white candidates do undergo similar scrutiny. Why do you think Mitt Romney wasn’t the Republian nominee? It wasn’t because of his helmet hair, or appearance of wishiwashiness, it was because he is a Mormon and the Mormon church has a history of racism (although they have at least renounced that).
By Aquagirl
April 30, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
I think my two favorite things they run are the weekly parliamentary grilling of the British prime minister and the occasional session of the Supreme Court.
Hear hear, Dan! The sessions of Parliament are far more entertaining and informative. Now that’s a no-spin zone. No speech writers or Tony Snow filters.
By Enright
April 30, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
You’re Crazy certainly is. Cheney lives in the real world where the sanitized public can’t determine decisions to go to war. Brave men who fought and died didn’t want a***** like you speaking German or Japanese. Try appreciating that fact moron.
By jm
April 30, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
I wonder if Mr. Wooten will comment on the five year anniversary of the White House’s announcement that: “Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended” or continue to write about Senator Obama’s pastor.
I wonder whatever happened to that Mission Accomplished banner.
By Regina
April 30, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this
Anonymous, Mitt Romney wasn’t the nominee because the Mormom Church has a history of racism. Most of the churches in America have a history of racism. It was America’s view of anyone who isn’t a WASP and the view of polygamy practices of the fringe Mormon sects.
By Jackie
April 30, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this
@Aquagirl,
Per our disagreement yesterday, I found benefical information relating to absentee ballots and the disqualification of many of our military in Iraq.
The exclusions used by Rove is called voter couching.
Read that and any others you will be able to find on google to verify this article.
I hope this will give you an idea as to why the State of GA filed suit against the US government.
Here is your link.
http://kmareka.com/?p=1186
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Enright….
You write this…..
You’re Crazy certainly is. Cheney lives in the real world where the sanitized public can’t determine decisions to go to war. Brave men who fought and died didn’t want a* like you speaking German or Japanese. Try appreciating that fact moron.
Now, you’re entitled to your opinion.
But, I would say the circumstances you state are a bit out of whack.
First of all Japan attacked the U.S. Ensuingly Germany declared war on the U.S.
No choice!!!!!
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and a whole host of unsavory characters decided in all their collective wisdom to attack Iraq…For what?
You tell me!
By Reese
April 30, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
TRUST IN GOD, NOT THIS GOVERNMENT AMERICA IS BRAINWASHED
By Reese
April 30, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this
TRUST IN GOD, NOT THIS GOVERNMENT AMERICA IS BRAINWASHED
By jbmlaw
April 30, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
Dear PoFo @ 10:31, do you mean “Anna”? Big difference.
By ELLE
April 30, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this
Jerry Falwell was NEVER renounced!
A couple of days after 9/11 he said, “God Gave U.S. ‘What We Deserve,’”
He spewed all kinds of hate!
When he died… President Bush Declares National Day of Mourning!
This is just ALL racist in nature. Lots of Pastors speak about whatever they want in the pulpit.
My Pastor (White) said that it takes violence to stop violence! He was speaking about abortion.
Hillary Clinton my have forgotten that this Pastor (Wright) came to the White house to pray for her husband when he was caught “NOT” having sex with the intern.
He was then “impeached” for “NOT” having sex with the intern.
By WTF?
April 30, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
ghost rides in a pail lib echo.
think of it this way idjit.
it was to draw the twin towers of iran and al qaeda onto a battleground of our choosing.
any terrorists succeeded in attacks on american soil lately?
appreciate that moron.
do you libs appreciate anything about this country?
NO!
just like the rev.
we’re just one big FU in your segregated minds.
By Glenn
April 30, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
Shakespeare? Obama?
More like Seinfeld…
By Dan
April 30, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
“it was to draw the twin towers of iran and al qaeda onto a battleground of our choosing.”
When was the last time Iran actually invaded a foreign nation? 1856?
By BuckheadBill
April 30, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
Ole Dennis is seeing the light. ” Barack is a shining star”. Barack is certainly way out in space.
By ELLE
April 30, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
I did not complete my email above…
Jerry Falwell was just one example of a pastor spewing what some may describe as HATE, and he is white!
If you can back it up with the Bible, or historical proof…
Like it or NOT, is it HATE or something we as Americans choose to NOT want to hear!?!
There was another Pastor that was quoted as saying the Hurricane Katrina victims “deserved” what they got!
Most information coming from the pulpit is supposed to be “thought provoking”!
By Dave
April 30, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Par for the Democratic course. Notice how it’s all shifted from policies to “It’s because he’s black!”, “Amarica has always been racist!”, “People still seperate others by the color of their skin.”
Is anyone else tired of this same old rhetoric? It seems such a packaged response and the race card is used WAY too much. Check with Bill Cosby and Judge Arrington with the real deal. Stop blaming whitey for the problems the black community is having. Arrington didn’t let “absence of opportunity” get in his way. He worked hard for what he has! There are many, many minorities that have made their way by hard work and persistance instead of believing that “they didn’t have the same opportunities” excuse. Look in the mirror and see what you want, but it’s all out there for you. You just have to be willing to pay the price.
By S1-W
April 30, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
Lets speak of character. Thomas Jefferson was known to have had sex with a person he held in bondage. Strom Thurmond was known to have had sex with a child who was a servant in his home and fathered a child through this rape. J. Edgar Hoover was a cross dressing megalomaniac. I could continue at length but I don’t have the time. In the Time magazine poll for Man of the Century Billy Graham came in fourth place behind Adolph Hitler no less. Is this an endorsement of Adolph Hitler by a large majority of people or recognition of the GREAT (meaning consequential) footprint he left in his wake? To speak of the character of Barack Obama or Jeremiah Wright when we look at the reverence afforded these aforementioned men of “achievement” one indeed must weigh the person or persons who are raising the issue of character. If the bar is to be held steady then do so but don’t expect more from the student than the teacher has imparted. When you run to the voting booth remember that gas was $1.30 cheaper before the invasion of one of the richest oil reserves on earth research the sources of wealth for Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the rest. The character measurement will never apply in this country because men of true character don’t aspire to political folly. You’re just told they do. In the Bible the people were given a choice, Jesus or Barabas the people made their choice. Like American Idol the most talented doesn’t always win just the one that appeals to the people. Character?
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
Oh my, I promoted Obama to governor. What was I thinking? Forgive me. My Obama education is faulty. I dropped the course. He DOES have cute baby brown eyes. So there!!
OK.. I promise to say Sen. Obama if you will stop talking about Cheney who is not running for any office!! DEAL??
willie b, I STILL don’t have any bananas for you. Quit begging..
By Aquagirl
April 30, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Jackie @ 11:52, thanks for the link..but why do you cite a personal blog consisting of political opinions of a psychotherapist/social worker? To add to the weightlessness, it also consists of heresay information via interview from a guy who wrote a book called “Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans.”
Now, citing a statistic like 3 million vote were thrown out seems pretty straightforward. But jumping to the conclusion that many of those were african-american or hispanic soldiers, and it was all a coverup? How does Mr. Palast reach those conclusions? A great deal of the interview is comprised of Mr. Palast telling us what other people are thinking or intending to do. He may or may not be right, but there’s little support for his theory. Honestly, I couldn’t figure out exactly who he was accusing of doing what…perhaps he will write another book and produce the 500 e-mails that he cites. We have no idea what they say.
I did google “voter couching” and found exactly two hits which seem to relate to your definition. One is an opinion from Huffingtonpost.com. So as of now, there are vague accusations (including yours) of some kind of huge problem with military votes, but little to show. If an interview excerpt posted on Ms. Mareck’s blog last year is “evidence”, forgive my doubt.
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
WTF…..
WTF are you talking about…You make as much sense as George Bush on a GOOD DAY!
By Rodney King
April 30, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Can’t we all just get along?
By hotlanta
April 30, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
Where is the story about Hiliary’s pastor conviction for child molestation. It is funny how the media was talking about Wright for 2 MONTHS and he said nothing. Now he has come outta hiding and now yall want him to shut up. It is funny how Wright was needed when he helped Bill outta his mess now Hiliary is acting like the Grand Pupa as if she never heard of him. Is Hiliary going to New York concerning those cops getting off for shooting an unarmed man 50 timess since she claimed she spoke out about Imus. She knows if she goes to NY those black folks will run her outta town. Me and the security guard was talking about it yesterday and he said that white folks is looking at Wright and calling him a radical. I reminded hin that white folks also called King a radical and he wouldn’t hit no one. Some white folks call every black man they see a radical. Don’t think because you talk with a soft voice and doesn’t stir the pot you are not being called a radical. I also told him if a person doesn’t let the public define them and they define themselves they are also called a radical or the “c” word controversial. Ain’t nothing controversial about the truth. It is what it is. Hiliary Clinton uses Freedom of Speech to tell a lie, nothing happens. Rev. Wright uses Freedom of Speech to tell the truth and he is attacked. PRICELESS
By hotlanta
April 30, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
Where is the story about Hiliary’s pastor conviction for child molestation. It is funny how the media was talking about Wright for 2 MONTHS and he said nothing. Now he has come outta hiding and now yall want him to shut up. It is funny how Wright was needed when he helped Bill outta his mess now Hiliary is acting like the Grand Pupa as if she never heard of him. Is Hiliary going to New York concerning those cops getting off for shooting an unarmed man 50 timess since she claimed she spoke out about Imus. She knows if she goes to NY those black folks will run her outta town. Me and the security guard was talking about it yesterday and he said that white folks is looking at Wright and calling him a radical. I reminded hin that white folks also called King a radical and he wouldn’t hit no one. Some white folks call every black man they see a radical. Don’t think because you talk with a soft voice and doesn’t stir the pot you are not being called a radical. I also told him if a person doesn’t let the public define them and they define themselves they are also called a radical or the “c” word controversial. Ain’t nothing controversial about the truth. It is what it is. Hiliary Clinton uses Freedom of Speech to tell a lie, nothing happens. Rev. Wright uses Freedom of Speech to tell the truth and he is attacked. PRICELESS
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
Ghost Rider@12:39
You wouldn’t know good sense if it hit you in the face. You ARE a ghost, sir. Invisible! Especially your mind. A total blank.
By Curious Observer
April 30, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
Only 977 days until GWB’s infamous Tax Cuts for the Rich are history, regardless of which party takes the White House.
By willie b
April 30, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
DUSTY…I’m caged up here at this wonderful zoo!
And, I ain’t got no money…honey!
Please…bring them dang nanners and I promise to forgive all of your factual errors.
DEAL?
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
Ghost Rider@12:39
You wouldn’t know good sense if it hit you in the face. You ARE a ghost, sir. Invisible! Especially your mind. A total blank
I must have hit a nerve..was it the mention of your hero “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” Georgie?
Take a valium you’ll be over your swoon in about an hour!
By Aquagirl
April 30, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this
Okay, Hotlanta, good question—-where is the article about Hillary’s pastor being convicted of child molesting?
By Truthifier
April 30, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this
Hotlanta, your reference to Clinton’s pastor being convicted of child molestation is WAY off. You really should learn to use google. The Rev. William Procanick, was a pastor at a church in Clinton, NY. Yes, Clinton refers to the town not the Senator. How can you be so friggin’ stupid?!
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this
I would stay and play with the kiddies but I have to leave very soon.
willie b. @12:55
I will give you a banana for every misaligned fact of mine. You’ll probably starve.
Ghost rider@12:39
I’ll stick with my hero while you stick with yours. How is Fidel’s health these days?
By Truthifier
April 30, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
Hotlanta, your reference to Clinton’s pastor being convicted of child molestation is WAY off. You really should learn to use google. The Rev. William Procanick, was a pastor at a church in Clinton, NY. Yes, Clinton refers to the town not the Senator. How can you be so friggin’ stupid?!
By Dan
April 30, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this
“I’ll stick with my hero while you stick with yours. How is Fidel’s health these days?”
I think his health stopped being much of a concern after he ceased breathing
By George Washington
April 30, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
the rev wright is an embarassment to religious people of all colors…he seeks the lime light…and the media whor es are glad to shine that light on the fool….Obama is so much more than what that fool portrays….yesterday, my wife hosted 15 scholars from a local high school at her place of employment…they were the brightest group of kids she has encountered, and that includes the best and smartest from George Walton High School in Cobb county, where our children attended and graduated public school….the fifteen had full ride scholarships to Harvard, Yale, Vandy, and many other top tier schools…and all were Black…Git use to it, Woodenhead, black people are just as smart as white…thirteen of the students were female, and only two were male, so some work still needs to be done in that area, but we all have areas where we need more work, eh….
By anonymous
April 30, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
Where is Glenn?
By Carol Cleland
April 30, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
Americans get the President they deserve. I never cease to be amazed at how simple-minded the majority of the citizenry is - easily manipulated by sound bites, talking heads and other red herrings. This business about Obama and his pastor is a non issue. It was largely due to the Black church that thousands of African Americans didn’t rise up en masse and kill every white person in sight, especially during those murderous times of the last century when lynching was weekend sport and jim crow apartheid the rule of law. It’s amazing more people aren’t more “toxic” and disillusioned with the illusion of America. Those of you who don’t believe you can vote for Obama because of this manufactured issue concerning Rev. Wright are the last best hope of those who would like to see the very policies that are bringing this nation to the brink of disaster continue….
By ron
April 30, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
Glenn—Maybe someone should explain to KV that in the early 60’s white Americans and black Americans had some pretty serious discussions about race.Sorry he missed it.
By pam
April 30, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
You people should just leave obama if people don’t vote for him, and you know the people whom I’am talking about it’s just an excuse the rev. wright thing ,and they know it’s true
By pam
April 30, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
You people should just leave obama along’ if people don’t vote for him, and you know the people whom I’am talking about it’s just an excuse the rev. wright thing ,and they know it’s true
By Oh the audacity!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
Most tellingly he said: “His comments have shown disrespect to me.”
Respect, Obama! Everyone wants it and you, it turns out, demand it.
A wee bit narcissistic aren’t you Obama?
What about the black folk you left behind to fall victim to Wright’s hatespeak?
Dissin the disser.
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
Ghost rider@12:39
I’ll stick with my hero while you stick with yours. How is Fidel’s health these days?
Well Dusty I would not no how Fidels health is! Why don’t you tell me how the health of all of our wounded service men/women is, and why don’t you tell me how the health of the 4,059 dead are?
Oh, and be sure to include your assessment of all the Iraqi’s health issues. Whether they be dead, alive or not now have a place to live!
All, for a senseless war that never had to be fought!
By George Washington
April 30, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
Glenn is drunk again, high on his own ego…the fool is weak in math, hence his need to use big word, long sentences, and many paragraphs to say very little…he is trying to convince the PhD’s of the world that diagraming sentences should count as a math skill…so fer with little seccesss….
By George Washington
April 30, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this
Too much power is vested in the position of presieent…do you fools want a dictator? Do any of you idiots recall something our ansestors developed from the agony of failure..something called “checks and ballances”…By putting so much power in the hands of one alleged man, we have been committed to two wars, with a third pending…If the third comes, I personally will do everything within the legal limits to imflict damage on AmeriKa, YOU STINKING F U CK ING NEOCON SUCM…..
By Aquagirl
April 30, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
Truthifier @1:19, why do I have the feeling we won’t see hotlanta again for awhile?
At least hotlanta provided a community service, using the first sentence to say “hey, I’m repeating the crap rumor I heard from aunt Sally’s cousin’s hairdresser who does the fantastic weaves. So you can skip the rest of the verbiage that is currently flying out of my hotlanta butt.”
PRICELESS.
By hotlanta
April 30, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
Clinton is using Wright the same way that Bush used Willie Horton to win the election. Since folks are complaining about WRIGHT prove him WRONG you can’t do that. The best way to shut someone up is to prove him wrong. You guys can’t do that. Obama will come out swinging. Believe that. Then Hiliary will start crying again.
By hotlanta
April 30, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
Clinton is using Wright the same way that Bush used Willie Horton to win the election. Since folks are complaining about WRIGHT prove him WRONG you can’t do that. The best way to shut someone up is to prove him wrong. You guys can’t do that. Obama will come out swinging. Believe that. Then Hiliary will start crying again.
By hotlanta
April 30, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
Clinton is using Wright the same way that Bush used Willie Horton to win the election. Since folks are complaining about WRIGHT prove him WRONG you can’t do that. The best way to shut someone up is to prove him wrong. You guys can’t do that. Obama will come out swinging. Believe that. Then Hiliary will start crying again.
By hotlanta
April 30, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
Aquagirl please. Got to CVS and get some lice spray from aisle 6. I bet you smell like a horse when you get out the water and that is the reason you call yourself Aquagirl.
By hotlanta
April 30, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
Aquagirl please. Got to CVS and get some lice spray from aisle 6. I bet you smell like a horse when you get out the water and that is the reason you call yourself Aquagirl.
By Truthifier
April 30, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
Aquagirl, looks like Hotlanta did decide to show up again, although he/she failed to offer any mea culpa for slandering an innocent pastor. Not surprising.
By willie b
April 30, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
Oh, Dusty..Oh, Dusty
Trap set Bait taken….
willie b. @12:55
I will give you a banana for every misaligned fact of mine. You’ll probably starve.
BRING THEM NANNERS ON!
I’m not going to do a total littany because I want this to be short..and today four bananas will do me just fine…..
Today…Yes, I do realize that your attention span is somewhat limited but, did you not say that Obama was a governor?
Did you not say that GWB had a MSB (whatever that is )degree from Harvard?
Did you not state that John McCain graduated from West Point?
And then you called me out for saying everybody lived in Gwinnett county (I..Willie B) furnished you the exact statement I made on this blog that showed I never stated that. I said I live in Gwinnett County.
I’ll be the big one in cage 65! Don’t let my girlfriend Wilma see ya… She’s mighty jealous!!!
By Copyleft
April 30, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
Just checking for positive comments about McLame from his (ostensible) “supporters,” including Wooten himself…
Hmmm….
Nope, still nothing. Yep, gonna be a GREAT campaign season—as long as nobody actually notices the Repubican nominee, that is! (snicker)
Can’t WAIT to get a good liberal administration in place, starting this fall! Ahhh, it’s great to be a REAL American, and not a desperate, clutching-at-straws, cowardly Republican!
Wheeee!
By Dim Broad formerly known as Obama Swooner
April 30, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
Forget Barack. He won’t pay up.
Non-intern female employees did better working on the Senate staffs of John McCain and Hillary Clinton during the latest public reporting period than they did working for Barack Obama, Cybercast News Service determined through an analysis of payroll data published by the Secretary of the Senate.
You can keep your freaking water bottles as-shole.
By Doug
April 30, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this
Hey hotlanta, you seem to have intimate knowledge of that lice spray.
By Skeptic Tank
April 30, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
Perhaps Mr. Wooten should rename his column “Guilt By Association”…with the proviso that his diatribes apply only to Democrats. Thinking Right must mean that the Inept Right will not be held accountable by Mr. Wooten. This one-dimensional approach to taking potshots in order to elevate yourself beyond your own failures, frankly, is beginning to sicken me.
You know what’s toxic? Electing a whole bunch of right-wing oilmen to run your government, and then feign indignity and surprise if you attempt to tie the increase in crude oil prices to the administration. Damn coincidence, you say?
You know what else is toxic? Lying to start a war, lying about the success of the war, lying about the future of the war. THAT’S toxic, folks. Reverend Wright is two degrees removed from RELEVANCE.
By Devastator
April 30, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
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By Crafty
April 30, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
Copyleft, I can’t wait for Obama to screw America up so bad that in four years we get another Reagan. Bring on liberalism because America will reject it and send you idiots packing for North Korea.
By Dennis
April 30, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this
By BuckheadBill April 30, 2008 12:23 PM “Ole Dennis is seeing the light. ” Barack is a shining star”. Barack is certainly way out in space.”
BuckheadBill, I really don’t want to go quite that far. I will say that I’ve been surprised at the mostly level headed comments Obama has made back to his critics. But when all is said and done, he seems to be the best that the corporate controlled government has to offer.
It’s not so much can “we the people” chose the best candidate, but can we eliminate the others.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Copyleft
April 30, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
Nahhh, Obama at his WORST won’t be able to do NEAR as much damage as Bush has done! He’s our “get-out-of-incompetence-free” card for the next generation!
No matter what Democratic bungles may occur in the coming years, we’ll still be able to shrug and say, “Big deal; it wasn’t as bad as Bush.” Boy, this is gonna be FUN. Yee-haa!
By Barack Obama
April 30, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this
and I forgot to mention that Hillary and I launched a negative campaign ad against McCain. It was a blatant lie about McCain’s 100 year war comment. But hey
I’m Barack Obama who can expect tools to believe anything I say, right?
I’m Barack Obama and I approve this hypocrisy.
By asian doctor
April 30, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
“We want handouts, not jobs. Jobs require work, whereas handouts just require us to vote democrat”
PLEASE VOTE HUSSEIN OBAMA.
HE WILL REIMBURSE US FOR 200 YEARS OF SLAVERY
By Devastator
April 30, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this
Rev. Wright’s betrayal: a lesson to Obama supporters
Rev. Wright may be correct about his assertions, and I do agree with a lot of what he says. The US is guilty of a number of atrocities around the world, manipulating world events to its own gain, placing dictators (Pinochet, Suharto) to “combat” communism, but who ended up oppressing its own people. The US is the only country in the World to have used nuclear bombs - after the War being practically over. Japanese people in Nagasaki and Hiroshima are still born with genetic disorders.
But nevertheless, Rev. Wright betrayed Obama.
There is no way you can justify what Rev. Wright has done, if not revenge and pettiness. Obama wants to build bridges between generations: to understand the imperfections of the previous generation without denouncing and rejecting it - but to accept it as a consequence of the times each generation has lived. Furthermore, he is capable (like most of us) to filter the good from the bad, specially from a family member. My father always told me that helping the poor and those who are in need is a virtue - but at the same time, he believed that homosexuality was a disease, and once he said something borderline racist about blacks. Obama didn’t have a father when growing up, but found a pastor who became his mentor.
Rev. Wright’s language is crude, unpolished and offensive at times. He knows that, and he knows that his words will be associated to Obama at a critical time. And to make things worse, he hired Nation of Islam’s security. I am sorry, but Rev. Wright is a total douchebag. But he teaches us a lesson.
That our individual principles are less important than getting Obama elected as President. Because as much disagreements we might have with Obama, the alternative - McCain - is much worse. It is not about making Fox News legitimate, but to exploit Fox News to disseminate the message. A lot of potential Obama supporters are not from the Left, but moderates, independents and those who watch Fox News - so grow up. Obama didn’t sell out Kos, or his liberal principles. He cannot be 100% in tune with the Left, his message needs to be packaged for moderate audiences.
Rev. Wright thinks his message, his ego and his principles are more important than Obama and everything that his candidacy represents: a complete reversal of the last 7 years. Will we do the same?
By Blind Homer
April 30, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this
hotlanta - Obviously Wright is wrong. He has used his Christian pulpit to spew hatred for America and white people. Christian reverends do not preach “GD America” any more than Jesus preached GD Rome! Black theocracy, as preached by your anti-American scumbag hero, is very similar to Muslim theocracy, another misguided religion and culture preaching hatred. Jesus preached about love and turning the other cheek. What a pathetic excuse for a Christian you defend.
By monte norwood
April 30, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
Commentary: How Obama can get beyond Rev. Wright By Roland S. Martin CNN Contributor
Join Roland Martin for his weekly sound-off segment on CNN.com Live at 11:10 a.m. Wednesday. If you’re passionate about the topic, he wants to hear from you. (CNN) — Let’s not kid ourselves, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was going to be a part of this presidential campaign through November, whether Sen. Barack Obama smacked his former pastor upside the head, or not.
Roland Martin says Sen. Barack Obama must fight back after the damage Rev. Wright inflicted on his campaign.
Now that he has taken the necessary steps to separate himself from Wright, Obama must go on his most vigorous offensive to date and make it clear that he is running for president, and not Wright. Sen. Hillary Clinton is doing all she can to make the case to undeclared Democratic superdelegates that Obama is a wounded duck because of Wright; that she has a better shot at winning white working-class voters; and he’s not tough enough to take on Sen. John McCain.
With that said, Obama is leading among pledged delegates, the popular vote, and has significantly closed the gap between himself and Clinton in superdelegates. Bottom line: He’s winning.
But now it’s time for him to ratchet up his message and to take back the stage from Clinton, McCain, and of course, Wright, and one way to do that is to be far more forceful in advocating his position and direction for the country. Here are a few suggestions:
Let voters know that you will be calling the shots, not Wright. I’ve seen the e-mails of voters who say they will not vote for Obama because of Wright. For the junior senator of Illinois, challenge them directly.
Tell them flat out that Wright will not keep their homes from foreclosure.
Tell them that Wright has absolutely nothing to do with gas prices doubling under the presidency of George W. Bush. Make it plain that your name is on the ballot and not his, and you’re the guy who has the right plan to transform the country.
Have your supporters increase the book sales of Alan Greenspan. McCain said last year that the economy wasn’t his strong suit, and that he needed to read up on the books of the former Federal Reserve chairman. I would put some of those young supporters to use and have them greet McCain at every campaign stop with a copy of a Greenspan book. Even print up some Greenspan masks and hound him to death.
Then you must back that in-your-face campaigning with an economic message that speaks to the masses, especially those blue-collar voters. Show them that the Bush tax cuts that McCain wants to continue will benefit those same owners who are shipping their jobs overseas.
Tell blue-collar voters that the hedge fund owners that are snapping up companies and slashing their jobs don’t care about them, and will be happy to fund the campaign of McCain.
Make the case that he might be a good guy, but he’s more concerned about the tax bracket of his wife —she’s worth in excess of $100 million - than the middle class voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
They say you’ve got a white problem? Tell those white rural voters that voting against their economic interests is political suicide.
Make it clear to women, especially white women, that Roe v. Wade will be extinct if McCain wins. The next president is going to choose three Supreme Court justices.
There is no way — no way — that the religious right will let a President McCain appoint anyone with a moderate bone in his or her body. Remember Harriet Miers? Bush even said he knew her heart, and they told him to go to hell.
What Obama has to tell those women, who are supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton in huge numbers, and will be disappointed if she’s not the nominee, that sitting at home on Election Day, or crossing the aisle and voting for McCain, virtually assures that a woman’s right to choose what to do with her body will be taken from her.
I would run an add slapping a large “C” for conservative on the faces of Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Antonio Scalia, and make it clear that three other justices will likely step down.
If McCain chooses, they vote with the conservative bloc. That is a day the pro-choice movement never wants to see.
Make college tuition a cornerstone of your campaign. You and Michelle paid off your student loans three years ago — why keep that such a secret? Hit folks over the head with that.
With Sallie Mae cutting back and being more selective on student loans, the ability to pay for their kids to go to school is a huge issue. Push it. Hard. Don’t let it be just one of many items on the list.
Convene a panel in Indiana, North Carolina and Oregon of parents and young folks and let them express their fears about not being able to go to college and get a good job. There isn’t a parent, aunt or uncle that isn’t concerned with that issue.
The war still matters. I’m watching Lanny Davis, a big- time Clinton surrogate on “Larry King Live,” challenge Obama’s judgment on attending Wright’s Chicago church for 20 years. Obama must re-engage the electorate and say that the judgment of Clinton and McCain has led to a war that has cost us 4,000 lives and billions of dollars.
Those costs are real. Don’t let it slide by. Ratchet up the sound. Don’t let voters forget for a second that the wrong choice was made by your opponents.
A lot of folks are assuming the doom-and-gloom scenario for Obama. Everyone is saying he’s toast, and this race is over. But we forget that conservatives really don’t love McCain, and the evangelicals aren’t hot in love with him.
Go back to who you are: Mr. Change. Drive the issues home in a more forceful manner. The election is little more than six months away, and a whole lot can happen between now and November 5.
Roland S. Martin is a nationally award-winning journalist and CNN contributor. Martin is studying to receive his master’s degree in Christian communications at Louisiana Baptist University. You can read more of his columns at http://www.rolandsmartin.com/
By Obama makes me quiver
April 30, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
Barack’s going to be on “The View” with his wife Michelle. Wheeeeeeee! I can’t wait. Balls aren’t a requirement for liberal women.
O-BA-MA!
You go girl!
By Aquagirl
April 30, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
Devestator @ 2:02, from the AJC’s visitor agreement you should not be:
“Uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, or any other form of solicitation, without our express written approval;”
So ya might want to knock off the fundraising.
By Devastator
April 30, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
PLEASE IGNORE THE FIRST PARAGRAPH IN MY 2:15 POST! IT IS A REPRINT THAT DOES NOT REFLECT THE DEVASTATOR’S VIEWS!!
By Asian doctor
April 30, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
“We want handouts, not jobs. Jobs require work, whereas handouts just require us to vote Democrat”
PLEASE VOTE HUSSEIN OBAMA.
HE WILL REIMBURSE US FOR 200 YEARS OF SLAVERY AND SEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO OUR BROTHERS IN AFRICA.
By Blind Homer
April 30, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
hotlanta - Obviously Wright is wrong. He has used his Christian pulpit to spew hatred for America and white people. Black theocracy, as preached by your anti-American scumbag hero, is very similar to Muslim theocracy, another misguided religion and culture preaching hatred. Jesus preached about love and turning the other cheek, not GD Rome!
By Crafty
April 30, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Copyleft. What acid are you taking? Obama is an idiot. He’s the new Jimma Carter. It’s going to be funny in about two years when the American people beg to get Bush back in office.
By munchi
April 30, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this
Jimbo Wooten has really stirred the hornets nest here.
But one only has to look at someone else..
That person being John Hagee! let’s state a few facts: Obama never solicited Wright’s endorsement, McCain worked hard to get Hagee’s endorsement.
Obama has been asked over and over and over about Rev. Wright. Only one major MSM reporter, George Stephanopoulos, has asked McCain about Hagee, and even then, McCain never singled out Hagee’s anti-Semitic remarks (only his anti-Catholic remarks).
When confronted with their lack of concern for Hagee, the Republicans and the MSM tell us Rev. Wright is important, but they never tell us about the importance of Hagee. Even if you agree that Rev. Wright is more relevant than Rev. Hagee, how much more relevant?
The MSM gave the minions George Bush and now they are trying there dam..st to give us John McCain.
Enough said!
By Crafty
April 30, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
Roland Martin is a hack who sees in the same spectrum as Cynthia Tucker. Everything is a black/white issue. He averages 100,000 viewers/night. That’s a force to reckon with.
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
By Crafty
April 30, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Copyleft. What acid are you taking? Obama is an idiot. He’s the new Jimma Carter. It’s going to be funny in about two years when the American people beg to get Bush back in office.
Crafty…You my friend seriously need to seek a doctor…
Bush back in office…hardy har…har!
Your mental health is of important concern…there is a doctor somewhere if you have INSURANCE, but if you don’t TOUGH!
By TW
April 30, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this
Rev Wright’s ability to ruffle feathers to the level of stealing news away from the dead American soldiers in Iraq is the perfect reason why we should vote for John McCain. Clearly, the disaster in Iraq and an economy in the toilet are not enough to get our attention. Vote for McCain - we need four more years. Eventually, our spiral will cause us to scratch our heads. Silly to waste the brains of a Clinton or an Obama on the same group of ignorance that is responsible for where we are now. Heck with them - vote for McCain. I love watching the rednecks fill up their trucks - even better when you hear one mention they got laid off. Vote for McCain - four more years. Let the bone heads that signed us up for this crap start to feel the pain.
Vote for McCain. Maybe we’ll be an electoriate wothy of decent leadership in 2012. Until then, watch the morons sweat.
McCain ‘08 Finish the Drill
By Linda of Atlanta
April 30, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten and everyone who insists that Obama had to have heard Wright’s most divisive statements are asserting that Obama was at every service and Wright made the same or similar comments in every sermon. That assertion is rediculous to me. For many people, Wright is not important. They were not going to vote for Obama. Wright has simply given those people cover. It is clear that Obama is the candidate with the attributes that we need in a president. He is very intelligent (unlike George Bush whom we elected twice). He has integrity (unlike Hillary Clinton who is a shameless liar). And he has an appropriate temperment (unlike John McCain who is known to have fits of confrontational anger). But we want to ignore all of these facts and suggest that because he went to a church where the minister has offensive words for Americans, he is unworthy to be president. Americans may buy this argument, but people outside this Country will not. What foreign leader will trust anything Hillary Clinton says? What will we do when John McCain flies in a rage over a disagreement with a foreign leader? The choice is up to us. And I don’t know why Indianna and NC should be making the Choice for the Democratic candidate. Indianna has not voted Democratic since the 1950s in the General Election and NC has voted mostly Republican since 1979. This whole situation amounts to an Obama lynching, notwithstanding that his value system was set long before he met Wright.
Does anyone believe his white mother and grandparents raised him to hate America? They raised him to be a uniter because that is a quality he needed to navigate this world as a person of mixed race. I have no doubt that he is the best person to be President of these United States. He is a uniter, not a divider!
By Crafty
April 30, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this
ghost rider, No, I’m perfectly healthy. If you and copymoron think that Obama is going to magically fix our problems then you are insane. Bush has his fair share of problems but every proposed idea that Obama has come up with has been laughed at by economist. Health care for everyone? So, that means our taxes will skyrocket and we will get DMV care. Hospitals will crumble and we’ll all suffer. He doesn’t want to take on terrorist nor does he want to deal with Iraq. He’ll have a hell of a time explaining to America why NY or LA gets nuked.
By One
April 30, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
This is the classic case of divide and conquer!!!!!!!! I for one, am not falling for it. I don’t give a dayum what Wright says, Obama should be President!!!! Hillary is a liar, and McCain is Bush all over again!! Funny how no one had a problem with Wright when her scandalous husband had him all up in the White House after Monica!!!! Obama has my vote, or I won’t vote at all!!!!!! Barack the vote!!!!!!
By breezy
April 30, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this
Here’s the facts folks. Yhis is just another one of those “scare the daylights out of white folks” articles used by conservatives(recist) to take your eyes of the ball. War in Iraq, war you are paying for while Iraq sale $70 billion worth of oil. Where is this money going. GB said the war would pay for itself. Instead we have record fuel prices and oil company profits. If you elect McCain things will only get worse. Time to kick them out folks. Obama can’t take over the country by himself. White have suffered too under our current administration.
By Oswami
April 30, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
No, Linda. Your contrived “facts” do not necessarily obtain, except onsofar as they are the training wheels without which your juvenile argument would teeter.
All Mr. Obama, or for that matter Ms. Obama, needed to figure out at some point during two decades was that Rev. Wright was a leading exponent of Black Liberation Theology, an especially simplistic Neo-Marxist formulation.
By Crafty
April 30, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
breezy, Why is it that liberals see everything in race and color? Just curious because MLK wanted a color blind society and yet all I hear is whitey is evil and blacky can’t do nothin right cause of da man. I mean come on. White’s suffered under Bush? How? I don’t put my faith and trust in government and anyone who does is going to be let down big time.
Newsflash: Democrats have done NOTHING while in office. You guys can’t blame Bush because you outnumber him. What happened to 6 in 06? Obama is not going to do a thing except blame Bush for his failings as a president. How’s he going to explain a nuke attack on our soil? Will he blame Bush because he’s going to have a tough sell.
By RenaP
April 30, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this
I was behind Obama - but not anymore. I was in a same situation with the Catholic Church. They would say and believe stupid things that I did not agree with. I was raised Catholic so I didn’t really figure out to move on from that church UNTIL it was time to baptise my son. I said no way am I doing it in a church that I feel I don’t agree with. Obama had both of his daughters baptised by this man. And that wasn’t so long ago (his oldest is about 8). So I feel that Obama sat in this church, listened to this man, and agreed with him.
Thank you Jeremiah Wright! Now we can really know the man that is running and make a sound judgement on who we want to vote for.
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this
Crafty you say..
Newsflash: Democrats have done NOTHING while in office.
What was it you didn’t like during Clintons tenure?
The PEACE or the PROSPERITY!
By Kneejerk
April 30, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this
If you’ll take the trouble to unpack the text just posted by “breezy”, you’ll find several telltale tactics favored by the pseudo-progressive, neocon right.
For example, breezy begins with the aggressive “thrust” in an attempt to dominate us with the claim to an exclusive command of “facts”. The very notion that something called a “fact” exists, absent an elite’s construction of it, is today so discredited that from the beginning of this text it is apparent that its author is a white male member of a professional elite, is neoconservative, and almost certainly insecure owing to certain private inadequacies..
By GaLiberal
April 30, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this
By DaMost @ 11:22 AM said: Oh yeah, GaLiberal that statement is backwards,’(actually black is the absence of color while white is the presence of all colors)’. Black is the presence of all colors. Mix the primary colors together you get black, not white, put water on a black piece of paper shine light upon it and you will see all the primary colors. Can’t do that with the color white.
If that’s true, then explain why white light breaks into the spectrum when it passes through a prism. Using your explain black holes aren’t really black, but instead are bright white. I don’t which planet your from; the physics must be different there. Or is you just a UGA graduate?
By Crafty
April 30, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
ghost rider, Why do you bring up Clinton anyway? I was referring to Princess Nancy and the do nothing congress. You really need to learn how to read. Clinton got us bombed four times. World Trade bombing, Cole bombing and two US Embassy bombings. He was too busy molesting a 19 year old and getting his law license taken away to worry about the country, right? The dotcom bubble burst and we went straight in to a recession. Also, Republicans kept him in check. Remember Newt?
By Artie Sammish
April 30, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
ghost rider,
The SLEEZE.
By ColorBlind
April 30, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
GaLiberal, You’ve got to be the dumbest person on this blog. Number one, white people are not white and blacks aren’t really black. You sound like a Clayton County graduate or at least a Dekalb Tech student. What does UGA have to do with this? You’re just taking cheap shots at people. Did you lose your penis?
By Curious Observer
April 30, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
Newsflash: Democrats have done NOTHING while in office. You guys can’t blame Bush because you outnumber him.
It’s pretty hard to do anything when an obstinate Republican minority in the Senate, led by the lobby-bought Mitch McConnell, refuses to vote for cloture and move legislation to an actual vote. Thus far, that has happened 48 times to legislation since 2007 that actually had a majority in favor of it. What do you propose—the “nuclear option” proposed by Bill Frist to get rid of the 60-vote cloture requirement? And it’s hard to get any legislation signed into law with a president who suddenly discovered his veto pen in 2007, once a Democratic majority took control. Elect a Democratic president and you will see real Congressional action.
Know what you’re talking about before you spew Faux News propaganda.
By ColorBlind
April 30, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
ghost rider, Clinton was caught lying to the entire world. On camera and to the grand jury. I have not seen Bush being convicted in a court of law. How do you explain someone being a liar when you have no proof? Can I assume that you are mentally retarded based on your rhetoric?
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this
Crafty…
Is this not what you posted?
Newsflash: Democrats have done NOTHING while in office. You guys can’t blame Bush because you outnumber him. What happened to 6 in 06? Obama is not going to do a thing except blame Bush for his failings as a president. How’s he going to explain a nuke attack on our soil? Will he blame Bush because he’s going to have a tough sell.
Now tell me…How in the world am I supposed to know who you are referring to? HUH?
Yeah, I remember Newt! Wasn’t he the speaker of the house who had to resign? And wasn’t he the same speaker of the house who while trying to impleach Clinton was also doing the nasty (while married) with his assistant.
Answer me this Crafty…What was the defecit when Clinton was president…Now, tell me this…What is it now?
By ColorBlind
April 30, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
Curious Observer, How much is moveon paying you? Seriously, democrats are too stupid to do anything. Bill Frist? Hello, he isn’t in the senate you moron. Maybe it’s you who shouldn’t spew Communist News Networks propaganda. Go back up Hillary’s vagina.
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
Crafty…
I’m done with you…
You write like a third grader…
and, you make as much sense.
By Crafty
April 30, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this
ghost rider, First, notice I didn’t mention Clinton. That should have been the first giveaway. Second, 6 in 06. Meaning the 6 plans for 2006. Remember that Cheech? Too much dope will fry brain cells and you are living proof.
The deficit was never balanced under Clinton. How do I know this? Because this is the same man who lied to the entire world multiple times. The man and his “wife” can never tell the truth.
Newt? Yeah, Newt cheated on his wife but he never raped other women and never molested an intern. Not saying Newt is innocent but he got more accomplished than the current democrats have.
By Crafty
April 30, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
ghost rider, Good, now go back to Waffle House and let sane people blog.
By Glenn
April 30, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
You’re right, ghost rider, there wasn’t much wrong with Bill Clinton other than his proving himself to be a prolapsian exhibitionist and spectacularly strung-out deception junkie. Just as today we can find little fault in Hillary, except that she and Bill obviously shared needles.
By BeBe KID
April 30, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
Rev Jeremiah Wright is no racist and is not unpatriotic. He is a God annointed preacher who does not have to be politically correct nor seek the approval of racist white people. When white people are racist and black people call them out, deservingly playing the race card if you will, suddenly it is now politically incorrect and the black person is now labeled the racist. The is just a mind game devised to allow white people to excuse their racist past and continue to be racist and dominant giving no consideration and tolerance for other races or different cultures. It’s all about maintaining and promoting the myth of white superiority. Now am I lying? Ask Bill Clinton.
By ghost rider
April 30, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this
Colorblind you wrote this about me.
I have not seen Bush being convicted in a court of law. How do you explain someone being a liar when you have no proof? Can I assume that you are mentally retarded based on your rhetoric?
Where have I called GWB a liar? He is, but that’s beside the point.
If you have nothing further to add …OFF WITH YOU!
By Butterfly
April 30, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this
After reading most of these postings, I can only say that most people in the country are truly sad. The don’t listen, can’t read or don’t understand anything. When did Rev Wright ever say he hated white people? Are white people “the foreign policies” of the United States of America. If most people would take the time and listen too the sermons that Wright gave he’s only pointing out the things this country has done over the years. You can still love your country, but to be blind to what the US government has condone over the years is just crazy!
By BeBe KID
April 30, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this
Rev Jeremiah Wright is no racist and is not unpatriotic. He is a God annointed preacher who does not have to be politically correct nor seek the approval of racist white people. When white people are racist and black people call them out, deservingly playing the race card if you will, suddenly it is now politically incorrect and the black person is now labeled the racist. The is just a mind game devised to allow white people to excuse their racist past and continue to be racist and dominant giving no consideration and tolerance for other races or different cultures. It’s all about maintaining and promoting the myth of white superiority. Now am I lying? Ask Bill Clinton.
By ColorBlind
April 30, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this
ghost rider, You implied it in your argument for Clinton and you just called him a liar while saying you never called him a liar. You sound a lot like John Kerry. You two should go windsurfing at Lake Lanier.
By bigguy
April 30, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this
those of you who dont understand rev wright are the same the group who would probably elect bush again if you could you dont get it and you never willin spite of all the real failures of this president
By VERITAS
April 30, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this
ANY CHURCH THAT PREACHES POLITICS OR HATE FROM THE PULPIT SHOLD HAVE ITS TAX-EXEMPT STATUS REVOKED !
THAT WOULD SHUT DOWN THESE MOSQUES AND SEPARATIST CHURCHES RUN BY THE KKK AND PAN-AFRICAN GROUPS
By Oswami
April 30, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
BeBe,
Why doesn’t our God-annointed cause celebre simply teach the Gospel and let the chips fall where they may? Does he find the Gospel insufficiently radical? Insufficiently prophetic? Insufficiently relevant?
His work indicates to me that he is more interested in creatures than in their Creator, and more interested in Jeremiah Wright than in any subject at all.
By Peaches
April 30, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
The Reverend Wright simply engaged in speech that has become all too common in some colleges, blogs and now churches. This vile speech which has no root in fact or evidence is the hallmark of the race/gender/class victimology disease. It infects parts of our universities and has become common in liberal circles. As Mr. Wright stepped out from under a rock and into the light, Obama did the only thing he could do. He utterly repudiated Reverend Wright as a racist demagogue, a purveyor of delusional, divisive hate speech. But Obama did more. He exposed all of the practitioners of this class/gender/race victimology for what they are as well. Thinking people in America just won’t tolerate the hate that oozes out of the liberal left.
Does Obama mean what he says? If he does not, he is a liar. If he does, the whacked out leftists are out of the Democratic party. what a great choice.
By ColorBlind
April 30, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this
bigguy, You should reconsider going back and taking third grade English.
By BeBe KID
April 30, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
Black people don’t owe America a damn thing. Your white forefathers accumulated their wealth from the uncompensated or under-compensated labor of black people. Then you passed that wealth made on the backs of slaves from one generation to the next. When confronted with the facts you racist whites slip into denial and blame the victim. You(racist white people) will reap what you sow!
By BeBe KID
April 30, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this
Black people don’t owe America a damn thing. Your white forefathers accumulated their wealth from the uncompensated or under-compensated labor of black people. Then you passed that wealth made on the backs of slaves from one generation to the next. When confronted with the facts you racist whites slip into denial and blame the victim. You(racist white people) will reap what you sow!
By Crafty
April 30, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this
BeBe KID, Then go back to Africa. And, blame your ancestor warlords who sold your grandpappi to whitey. No one cares if you owe us or not. We don’t owe you a thing either. The only racist I see is you Jesse Jackson.
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this
Well, thank you,* AquaGirl* 2:19 for reminding Devastator of the blog RULES. But….he doesn’t listen!! Not for one nanosecond…
willie b… NO banana for you (and stop scratching!) It’s MBA from Harvard for Bush. And I do know the Navy educates sailors and such at Annapolis. Did you know McCain’s dad was an Admiral? (That’s NAVY, fellow, just like McCain was NAVY.)
Go get a JOB, silly willy b. Maybe YOU will be elected as Zoo Daddy or chairlady of Clayton Fool School Bd. You’d be just right for either job. Go for it!!
Attention Poll workers: CopyLeft and GhostRider may demand access to a vote against BUSH. Treat them tenderly. They are in the last stages of virulant liberalism and back view botulism.
Somebody said Castro was dead. When did that happen? Some lib told you? Figures. If they don’t hear a rumor, they start one.
I think Jim Wooten’s next topic may be environmental i.e. HOW TO TERMINATE TOXIC TOADIES. We promise not to riot, Jim, and we won’t let liberals throw spitballs. Well, we’ll try.
By whizkid
April 30, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
I agree that Wright deserves to be rebuked. But it escapes me how you-know-it-alls can insist that the 30-second sound bites circulating on the net represent the only message that Wright delivered during his entire ministry of 40 years.
By Glenn
April 30, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this
Not my white forefathers, BeBe. Wrong crowd. Lots of white folk going back to earliest colonial times, didn’t hold with it. And more than a few of them paid some serious dues for sticking to those views.
My ancestors no more fit your historical scenario than Obama’s forebears do.
By Generalizations Help No One
April 30, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
Some white people owned slaves.
Some white people didn’t own slaves.
Some black people owned slaves.
Some black people were slaves.
Most white people today are descended from immigrants who came to the US after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Many black people came to the US after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
By Pierce Randall
April 30, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
Since when is Jim Wooten a credible commentator on a Democratic primary battle? The other side never has a good grip on the internal political divisions of a party because they (especially in this case) don’t internalize the voting blocks of the party’s central values. I wouldn’t put much stock in Mr. Wooten’s analysis. Clinton and McCain have not been trying to paint Obama as a Black radical; they’ve been trying to paint him as a puttering cocktail party liberal who could be goaded into defending Mao, Stalin, or Louis Farrakan. That might be working to some extent, but I don’t think anyone who would actually consider voting for Obama in the first place would think that this makes him unpatriotic and that then they have to go vote for Hillary. I just don’t think those folks are voting Democrat at this point.
Obama’s real problem, in my view, is that if you contrast his statements about Wright now with his speech on race, it looks like he’s changing positions on the man. Whatever damage to be done was done, and was probably fairly mitigated by the race speech. A trite, “Mr. Write does not speak for the Obama campaign and I do not agree with his public statements today” would serve him better. Feigned outrage is a little bit hard to swallow. Obama has dropped several points in North Carolina, his first southern primary since Rev. Wright’s comments appeared in the media. I think that’s because it is incredulous to a fairly religious and African-American voting block that a man could be your close spiritual advisor and that you could just now be learning outrage over his critique of America or his support for Louis Farrakan.
Don’t get me wrong, I voted for and continue to support Obama. I personally think being exposed to(not necessarily agreeing with) radical voices can make you a better citizen (that’s why, when a friend said, “Check out Woot’s column today,” I did), and personally I don’t so much have a problem with Reverend Wright since, last time I checked, he’s airing concerns that really do exist in the Black community, and in minority and poor communities in general, but he’s not an elected official or setting public policy or anything like that. (I’m sure lots of southerners, maybe all of your parents, could do pretty good JFK impressions.) It’s just that Barack Obama’s comments make it seem like he’s switching positions on an issue it’s not really plausible that he would switch positions on, and that makes him look more like John Kerry or some other famous political equivocator. Interestingly, we’ll hear a lot about John McCain’s equivocation on the spriritual and worldly heads of the Republican Party (Reagan and Bush, respectively) and their doctrinal policies come the general election, but that’s all I have to say about that!
By Aquagirl
April 30, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
Obama wanted a guy fired for a single freakin’ comment. What did the guy say? That minorities die earlier due to disparities in healthcare. I’m surprised Obama didn’t dislocate an elbow flinging out the race card.
Enough whining that people need to listen to hours of Wright’s trash just to find what is a good context for “God damn America.”
Obama’s tolerance for anyone but the Rev. Wright doesn’t seem so impressive
By Jackie
April 30, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this
All the exchanges on this blog have not addressed the potentially devastating problem building in the Gulf.
The USA sent a 2nd carrier battlegroup in the the Gulf and states that Iran is responsible for the continued fighting in Iraq.
The implication is stated clearly, we may have to attack Iran to save the rest of the world from this menace.
The Joint-Chiefs Chairman states that we have the capability to fight this conflict with the Naval and Air Force reserves.
If you think the economy is bad now, an attack on Iran will make us wish for current conditions.
If you think we can ‘nuke them, don’t forget Saudia Arabia, Iraq and Iran and the largest oil producers in the world. The fallout would essentially make the extraction of the oil in that region literally impossible.
Keep your fingers crossed this scenario does not play out.
By Reverend Retro Wright
April 30, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this
Brent Bozell called me, the Wright rev an intellectual coward and he was right but I’m wright.
People need to understand it’s the hate that rubs off. Pseudo intellectualism is a tool to entice, impress, regress.
It’s all for one(me, myself and I) and I’ll show you suckas who’s smart and who’s wanting.
Can I get an AMEN brothers?
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
Pierce Randall@4:39
It does not pay to be a one party person about primaries. Out of these activites will come the next President. He will be the president of all Americans, no matter which party they claim to support. You’d better start reading about all possibilities for your NEXT president. Start with McCain.
Good night all.
By Dusty
April 30, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this
Jackie@5:13
A one track mind is not a bad thing to waste.
By alan dinno
April 30, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this
POOR REPUGS !!!
When you talk about high gas prices —- Their answer is Rev. Wright.
When you talk about high home foreclosure rates ——-Their answer is Rev. Wright.
When you talk about jobs going to overseas ——- Their answer is Rev. Wright.
When you talk about a failing economy —— Their answer is Rev. Wright.
When you talk about the Iraqi debacle —— Their answer is Rev. Wright.
NO MATTER WHAT OBAMA SAYS ABOUT REV. WRIGHT, SOME KOOKY PUNDIT ON FOX WILL ASK : Is it enough? Did he go far enough? Sean Hannity always has a new ‘narrative’ on this issue and repeats the same bs no matter what anybody says. Poor cheerleader for the Repugs. YOU BUNCH ON FOX AND REPUBLICANS ARE MAKING THE POLITICAL DEBATE LAUGHABLE IN THIS COUNTRY. WHO CARES WHAT SOMEBODY’S PASTOR, OR TEACHER, OR RABBI, OR BARBER, OR CHEF SAYS, 10 DAYS OR 10 YEARS AGO???
Can republicans ACTUALLY WIN ANYTHING WITHOUT THE USE OF ‘FEAR’ OR ‘DRUMBEAT OF WAR’ ??
Their tactics will only work on America’s ignorant who are taught to fear anything that doesn’t look like them…. It’s Funny actually !!!
Alan
By The Toxic John Hagee
April 30, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this
In late February, after extensive outreach efforts from John McCain and his campaign, mega-church preacher John Hagee endorsed the Republican senator’s campaign, and made some appearances with McCain to express his support. Given Hagee’s history of provocative remarks — he’s been quoted making anti-Catholic, anti-woman, and anti-Semitic comments — McCain’s decision to embrace Hagee was hard to understand.
And yet, despite insatiable media interest in the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s comments, news outlets decided to give McCain a pass on his associations with Hagee. A month after McCain and Hagee campaigned shoulder-to-shoulder, the combined number of stand-alone articles about the relationship from the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal was zero.
No doubt, however, the fair and balanced Jim Wooten will write an article about the toxic John Hagee any day now.
By getalife
April 30, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
I say run him and lose.
Let the gop clean up their own destruction and put an end to that pathetic party.
By @@
April 30, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this
Oh my! I was googling and now I’m giggling. When I read it I thought “What in heaven’s name do you do with something like this?” Then I thought “I’ll drop it on topic.”
Alicia Keys recently alluded to the government’s involvement in “Gangster Rap” and the deaths of Biggie and Tupac.
Certainly not all White people are out to get us. However, some of us are too busy forgiving a system of White Supremacy that has been assaulting us since we were kidnapped from Africa. Go to Ghana, visit the slave castles and see the “Star of David” carved into the doors, indicating the presence of Jews.
It’s just too weird for words.
By marilyn
April 30, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
This is all so pathetic. If Wright were a white minister, nobody would be paying attention to him. There’s definetly a double standard in America - if you’re black and non-convention you’re a lunatic. If you’re white you’re just entitled to your opinion. This is all about race. It’s not really about what Wright is saying because there are whites out there who have said far worse. Some whites just have a problem with black people like Wright who are loud, passionate and boisterous. The worse people are the policiticans like Bayh in Indiana who is trying to use this to Hillary’s advantage. When Bayh and other HIllary supporters say that Obama can’t win the general election what they’re really saying is that Obama can’t win because he’s black. We really need to have more honest. And that’s just racist, there’s no other way to put it. conversations about race in this country. Otherwise, as Obama stated in Philadelphia, we’re going to keep on our separate paths.
By marilyn
April 30, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
This is all so pathetic. If Wright were a white minister, nobody would be paying attention to him. There’s definetly a double standard in America - if you’re black and non-convention you’re a lunatic. If you’re white you’re just entitled to your opinion. This is all about race. It’s not really about what Wright is saying because there are whites out there who have said far worse. Some whites just have a problem with black people like Wright who are loud, passionate and boisterous. The worse people are the policiticans like Bayh in Indiana who is trying to use this to Hillary’s advantage. When Bayh and other HIllary supporters say that Obama can’t win the general election what they’re really saying is that Obama can’t win because he’s black. We really need to have more honest. And that’s just racist, there’s no other way to put it. conversations about race in this country. Otherwise, as Obama stated in Philadelphia, we’re going to keep on our separate paths.
By Glenn
April 30, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
Well get, you could let them run Barack and lose. Or you could run Hillary and lose. Choose. It’s the Party’s own cynical fault for reaching deep into its bench and picking two of its biggest BS artists—-just when that’s exactly what the country won’t put up with. They’ll even put up with McCain over that. And how-DEE—-that’s saying somethin’…
By Wit and Wisdom of Glenn
April 30, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this
Glenn wrote, “It’s the Party’s own cynical fault for reaching deep into its bench and picking two of its biggest BS artists…”
As BS artists go, no politician holds a candle to Glenn.
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