More on Wright and Obama

Obama will experience the wrath of America this week because he has lied

hiya MattOhio – hey i got accused of being a paid troll for McCain now LOL

From MediaMatters watchdog:
“Mitchell, who served as a U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland and chaired the talks leading up to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, said in a March 10 interview with CBS’ Katie Couric that he thought the statements Clinton made regarding her role in the peace process “are generally accurate to the extent that they have been relayed to me.” Additionally, Mitchell, who has not endorsed a candidate for president, also said: “Her greatest focus was on encouraging women in Northern Ireland to get in and stay in the political process, the peace process. And I have said publicly many times and wrote in my book, the role of women in the peace process in Northern Ireland was significant. It did … make a difference in the process, so as I said I think it was a helpful and supportive role.”
The only blarney is that coming out of the Obama camp!

Obama campaign is just jealous jerks who are distorting everything….someone should ask them why are they still talking about Ferraro…when they themselves are pushing Wright under the rug…..DOUBLE STANDARDS GALORE…

Anyone who was duped into voting for Obama must be furious.
The Democratic Party is now stuck with a racist, old school Black Nationalist and con man as its nominee for president.
Good luck with that “uniter” thing Obama. We see how committed you and your “uncle” have been to uniting the country over the last 25 years together.
As if that’s not enough, Obama and his whopping two years of federal experience (most of which he has simply spent campaigning for president) are supposedly going to lead America and the world during these especially challenging times.
My God. Unbelievable.

Not to mention a blatant IRS violation to endorse or campaign for a candidate in church. They are so stupid they video-taped it, sold videos, published transcripts, and Obama particpated in the violations of law and failed to advise them correctly. What poor judgment. I wonder if there are any laws that allow the IRS or FEC to prosecute Obama?

kravitz, i dont get this idea that people think seeing the Wright and BHO stories “scares” the white people. It does nothing of the kind to me. It just pisses me off royally.
He is one smooth talking…, oops, cannot say.

Lied, Obama has lied all the through his campaign.
I think obama should have to supply all the speeches he gave at all the churches he campaign at. Or any speeches he gave to churches during his campaign.

Out of an abundance of curiosity I went to the Oprah site to check on its message board. (Never thought I would ever have an occasion to do that. LOL). Well there are literally hundreds of posts about Rev. Wright and Obama connection, with the added gloss of Oprah. The tenor is about the same as that on Politial Punch. How very funny.
Upshot: No matter the intellectual bent, people are irate, apalled and feel duped by Obama.

yep smartprimate… no doubt this will be the nail in the coffin if he gets the nom… but Clinton is clearly stronger on voter confidence relating to issues and the economy.

Per Thomas Jefferson and John F Kennedy, the separation of church and state must be absolute. Obama is violating that the same way Republicans do by even bringing religion into the race. Just another Bush.

There arent enough delegates left for Gore to enter the race anyway LOL let’s see Gore and McCain debate… zzzzzzzzzz

“Obama’s speech at the Constitution Center is by invitation only.”

Navarro – big surprise stacked audience.

From a 2004 speech:
Interviewer: “So why have you ruled that out…running nationally?”
Obama: “I am a believer in…….(pregnant pause)……….knowing what you’re doing…when you apply for a job…”
“If I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket…I would essentially have to start now…before having served a day in the Senate. Now there might be some people who would have no problem doing that, but ah…I’m not one of them“.
He admitted later per a CNN report that several Senior dems asked him to run (knowing he would not be able to do his job and was not qualified). Let me guess… the liberals who couldnt win before coaxed him? Some conviction eh?

So, according to this report, Rev. Wright’s view about 911 was known to Obama at least a year ago…
He will try his best to give more great words tomorrow.

This is really a sad thing. If Obama tries to compare Ferraro to Wright in his speech I will never vote for him even as a VP.
This is not a race issue at all. It is about poor judgement and the BIG lie that he didn’t notice the radical political rhetoric and slander against the Clintons that was taking place in his own church.
I think it is also inappropriate and not fair what the Obama campaign did to Geraldine Ferraro. The continued race baiting by Obama’s campaign is over-the-top and the way the media is participating is and will always be a shame.
Wright and Obama are 2 different men and Obama is not to blame for what Wright said….except for the fact that by listening to this particular social gospel for 20 years he has contibuted to the problem and therein lies the judgement issue. So he claims not to have realized that these political and social teachings were going on at the church. Again judgement is really lacking if that is true.

Obama has a well orchestrated campaign to mislead America. How many times does this guy have to get caught in a lie before we all realize how much a fraud he is? I have seen and heard so many journalists on tv bypass his behavior by saying, ” he is a nice guy” Nobody really knows Obama for who he really except for the part he wants us to see. I am convinced more than ever if he is the democratic nominee we should all prepare ourselves for another four years of republican rule.

Man, what now! This guy cannot stay under the radar! He is corrupt and dishonest. I’m glad that my Republican buddies are now voting for Hillary.
Obama is toast!

Hillary left college and went about making money.
Barack left college and went about halping to improve other people’s lives.
And Hillary hates that. Because it steals Bill’s thunder.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
There’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit – the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes; to see the world through those who are different from us – the child who’s hungry, the laid-off steelworker, the immigrant woman cleaning your dorm room.
Not only that – we live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained. A culture where those in power too often encourage these selfish impulses.
They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.
I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern. Not because you have an obligation to those who are less fortunate, although you do have that obligation. Not because you have a debt to all of those who helped you get to where you are, although you do have that debt.

kravitz – posting Obama propaganda isnt going to work anymore. Clinton has a documented record of working for civil rights, human rights, and children both in college and after college. It is her life’s work along with her professional and political experience. Obama and Michelle are in the top 2% of the country’s moneymakers and they didnt get there by working for the poor. Both are ivy league graduates who want you to believe they are middle class which is not true.

MattOhio,
Do I have to believe all Catholic priests are child molester because they have some of them in their group in big number or should I say, if you go to any of those Churches, you are part of them too..Enough playing Race card and your so called patriotisms..judge people for their work and action..not what their teacher said..or pastor said..otherwise..we have put people in jail when their uncle did a crime!
Be open minded and accept the fact that CHANGE IS COMING TO AMERICA, YOU READY OR NOT!!
OBAMA08!!!YES WE CAN!!!

Obama is not losing ground because of what Wright said or because of racism. It is about judgment, character, integrity, honesty, and credibility… all of which he has lost the voters’ confidence. Since he doesnt have a significant amount of experience and qualifications, he lost his platform. Give it a week and let’s see how the voters feel.

Listen DCVoter, if you want to start with the IRS stuff maybe we should get that un-redacted Barrett Report out here so that we all can see how the Clinton’s used the IRS as their own personal hit squad. That would be fine with me. Or perhaps open up that whole Henry Cisneros pardon thing…or Hillary’s brother getting paid to set up some pardon’s for Bill to sign before he left office.
If you think that you are going to continually troll this site and work the crowd into a lynch mob for Obama, you better be prepared for the pay back. Your candidate is not without fault. And please don’t insult anyone’s intelligence by saying she has been throughly vetted. Oh, no, much more to toss out there. And it sure doesn’t hurt to remind folks of all that unsavory stuff that they might have forgotten in the past 8 years.
All you people so outraged by a church and a preacher…with the hate you all pedal, it is amazing that you can keep up this farcical, feined outrage.
OH, and for the record…most of what Wright said was right. And you people prove it better than any sermon he ever preached!

Just words. Is Wright’s God Da*n America just words, Obama? Just words. I agree. Words do matter.

The age old politics of personal destruction is the only trick Far Rightwing and now Hillary is capable of. They killed John Kerry by Swiftboating him. Now the blood thirsty monsters are coming after Obama, not for what he said but for a pastor. Americans will decide whether they want to let these monster Carl Rove molds should win and continue to rule this great country as usual…

That should be Wendy below….makes a solid point about the Clinton’s record.

Kravitz
Hillary went to work after college for the “Children’s Defense League’ more of an advocate for children than a high paying job….
You need to check your facts.

The College Years. Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics. He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

Political Career. It has been the rich and varied experiences of Barack Obama’s life – growing up in different places with people who had differing ideas – that have animated his political journey. Amid the partisanship and bickering of today’s public debate, he still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose – a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain. In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases. In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator.

DCVoter, are you nuts to think that Bill Clinton is not on the ticket? Ignorant lots are lulled into voting for Hillary because of Bill…Without Bill, she will be nothing…
And we dont want to see a guy who lied under oath, who was impeached, again in that office. Plus, Hillary is guilty of many crimes, and by your own standards guilty of association. So, she is out as well.

Who cares what the pastor said. Obama is running for president, not the pastor. And if you keep spewing venom, I might as well agree with the pastor that you too deserve some punishment from God almighty. So, cool it my friend. Otherwise go back to sucking, I meant, Clinton coolaid.

so sad – they have been actively removing posts all evening … just ignore it

Pete-What did Obama mean when he wrote: Dreams from My Father, he found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother’s race.

Here’s the problem….The Democrats are pretty divided to start with on these 2 candidates. Obama is definitely losing ground….believe it or not it’s true.
So if you throw the “baby out with the bathwater” and insist on Obama as the nominee you get McCain as the next president.
The truth is that the Clinton’s have been smeared for years by the same people that used the Kerry swiftboat tactics..
Despite this they have both done incredible things for this country.
Hillary’s resume is in the public and private sector. She and Bill withstood a lot of accusations and charges and millions of dollars of investigations (your tax dollars at work thanks to the Republicans). They did nothing illegal…except Bill lied about his sex life and he was under oath at the time.
So the “new politics” from Obama and a very willing media have given us a different kind of attack machine. Refusing to tell the Rezco story and trying to minimize the Wright story after hiding them for a long time is damaging stuff.
Barack Obama may be a good man. He has had a kind of low key career. He was groomed to be president and avoid any controversy. That’s why his policies are not quiet as brave as Hillaries…ie universal healthcare cannot be acheived without mandates…he is against a freeze in mortgage foreclosures out of fear of a big business backlash..
Look he simply has no experience on a Federal level. He was too busy “running for president” since 2004. Since the campaign started Hillary has only made about 50% of the votes but Obama has made only 28% or so. ANd instead of giving up his committee position so someone could do the job he simply did nothing and kept it for his resume.
Again I wouldn’t take your facts from Obama surrogates talking points. Ex Senator Bradley especially makes up everything he says and Kerry is notorious for having no facts…one of the reason he was not elected by the way.
Oh well. The whole situation is sad. Obama has clay feet and does not walk on water. But keep in mind that he also did not even choose the “change” slogan for his campaign….that came from Devall Patrick’s successful campaign for governor in MA. So far Patrick has been a terrible governor. But he’s been pretty busy helping his buddy run for president.
Whether we send Obama out as the nominee and let McCain trounce him or not I do think he has a quality about him that will make him great someday.

DCVoter…
Thanks for reading the post. Where do we go from here?

Jackie, you make a hard sell for Hillary. If, after all these 35 yrs of her cooked up experience, still all she gets is a solid 55+ negative rating at all the time, then she cannot win against Republicans. They are afraid of him, they voted in Ohio, Texas in large numbers for Hillary. They want Hillary against McCain,

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side, has a long history of what even Obama’s campaign aides concede is “inflammatory rhetoric,” including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own “terrorism.”
In a campaign appearance earlier this month, Sen. Obama said, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.” He said Rev. Wright “is like an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with,” telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family.

DCVoter, did you announce next to your name that you wear skirts..? Don’t whine all the time, just like Hillary. If you cant take the heat, get lost…And meet me in Ohio!!!

Mara: Did you actually see Rev. Wright’s racist, hate-filled, anti-American rantings? They have been showing them all over the news. If you saw these, do you really think Barack Obama did not know about them? And did not know about his “spiritual mentor’s” messages.
I think Barack Obama should have definitely left this church. Many years ago. Maybe never even should have joined in the first place. These teachings will never unify the country but only divide it. I really believe you need to think this issue through and stop defending him. This issue goes to his judgment, character and integrity.

What pastor Wright said is terrible. But look at the congregation. They are waving their arms, clapping, screaming yes yes yes, high fiving. This is the community to which he belongs. People that cheer racist bigoted commentary.This is his church community. So give him the benefit of the doubt (big Benefit) tht he didn’t hear any of these sermons. That he was never aware of any of this hate speech. Well what were these cheering congregants talking about all of the time? How much they love white people? How much they love America? Stop the hypocrisy. I think we all know what these Afrocentrist type churches are all about. That is why they honored Farrakan. They think alike. They hate white America. They blame white America for all of their problems. Then throw Jews, and Hispanics in there who they now hate as well. Obama will never be elected. It will be the biggest landslide since Reagan. The Dems never run out of ways to lose.

Alright,
That’s it. I just put my deepest darkest racial sleeves on the line and all I get is more hatred? No dialouge? Natha, Nothing, No Way Jose?
Well all I have to say is that’s “productive”.

Oh great another speech.

He said that he would have left the church if he had heard those words repeated. Doesn’t that mean that he heard those words in the first place and that he would leave if he heard them again?

Um, none of this is news. It is public knowledge that has already been addressed by Obama. So, if all this outrage is real and you people can really be so easily and decisively persuaded by specious arguments based strongly on racial prejudice (against blacks) — and by repeated plays of cable “news” soundbites — then I ask you, why should anyone take your opinion seriously? Also, why do you take yourselves so seriously?

I would like to see Obama lose in the PA primary by at least 30 points! Another big state he can’t win. His speech tomorrow won’t help him a bit.

Reverend Wright has left the country and is currently in Africa.

Emily I agree a strong showing in PA would be very good for her argument (which I agree with).

DC VOTER: Well, I definitely think she will have a very strong showing. They haven’t released many polls for this week, but last week, Survey USA (3/11)had Hillary Clinton up by 19 points in PA.

DRH said:
“Um, none of this is news. It is public knowledge that has already been addressed by Obama. So, if all this outrage is real and you people can really be so easily and decisively persuaded by specious arguments based strongly on racial prejudice (against blacks) — and by repeated plays of cable “news” soundbites — then I ask you, why should anyone take your opinion seriously? Also, why do you take yourselves so seriously?”
Why should you take us seriously? Because we are VOTERS. Why do we take ourselves so seriously? Because we are VOTERS.
Take a look at the many hundreds of posts on Oprah.com. They are exactly the same tenor that you find here.
People are VERY angry. They feel hoodwinked by Obama, and not in a nice way.

I don’t care what pastor of the Church which Obama is going said because the freedom of speech. What I care is the pastor follower, Mr. Obama, doesn’t distant himself from Wright until the news is leak out. Sorry, if you don’t show your patriot to America how can you be the US President? Don’t tell me you never hear about the Wright story because you go to that Church for 20 years and Mr. Wright is in your campaign.

Dogsoldier, you are so right!!
Let me post here a comment on the LaTimes blog; I found it very interesting:
This, too, is part of the script. Remember first that Gerry Ferraro is no racist. Never has been, never will be. She is a political pro (like Ted Kennedy) who sees Sen. Obama, for what he is. A very lucky young man with a spectacular way with words who has been “packaged” for this “moment,”starting with his being fed others legislation for his own as an Illinois Senator, his speech at the 2004 convention, and his support from Ted Kennedy. By his own admission, this “lucky winner” of the DNC first black man as president lottery, has been running for president as soon as he entered the U.S. Senate, running so hard that he can’t even hold a subcommittee hearing. And he’s lucky to be black because it gives him plenty of built in teflon … the media is reluctant to dig and vet this candidate for fear of being called “racist.” He has carried entire states with a solid black vote, taken “proportionally allocated delegates” with a solid black vote, and will have yet another “moment” at the DNC Convention in Denver, which is conveniently being run by a black evangelical preacher. Hollywood could not have done better. Scripted to perfection. If he hits a few snags, he gives explanations (in this case Wright/Rezko) on a Friday evening low news cycle and then gets up on Saturday to invoke RFK and cry out for unity. While you conveniently file Wright/Rezko away, you hear the sweet talkin’ guy and your mind wanders. Hoodwinked. Bamboozled. Since our guy repeatedly, conveniently, missed all these nasty sermons, maybe he was given a “heads up” that the sermon was going to heat up and that he should be a no show. That explanation is as good as any other. Quick, time to invoke RFK again. He’s been dead these 40 years and you can trash him too.
Posted by: Mandelay | March 16, 2008 at 05:29 PM

People do make mistake and most mistake can be corrected or it can correct itself but this one never and never can. I will never vote for Obama even if Dem has Obama/Clinton ticket and will consider 3 times before I cast Clinton/Obama ballot also.

marie, excellent analysis, thanks! btw, to you and all the others who are interested in intelligent discourse, check out savagepolitics website (might want to write it down – they delete messages with this info pretty quickly). we have some lively conversations over there, plus there are some outstanding articles, on a wide range of subjects (mostly election at the moment, but other stuff too).

dk, LOVE the audacity of deceit title. would make a great website name.

Wright’s comments to Obama only prove that, despite Obama’s current protests of innocence, he was fully aware of Wright’s penchance for saying inflammatory stuff. Obama will have to stop lying about not agreeing and supporting Wright’s racist views for the last 20 years.

Racism has been around before the eighteen hundreds.
What is the History of racism in the Church?
What is the History of racism In our American Government?
Who is G. Wallace ? Our American government is not responsible for G. Wallace, however, we can learn form his experience.
Some people hate people for no reason.
America had racism in the past.
America has racism in the present.
We have the power to change racism in the future.
IOWA VOTED FOR CHANGE
EXCELLENT JUDGMENT AGAIN
No person has ownership to words of change.

WatchOut those SuperD in Red State or District who backed Obama, Mr Wright will come and haunt You ALIVE.

I was tearing when Speaker Pelosi ascendent to her speakership but she’s also same at any politician does. She should be backing Hillary for making history and proud instead fooling around might be losing her Majority because alot of RedStates (small) none blue color for Dem voted for Obama. That is really Pissed me.

Guilt by association? ABSOLUTELY! We are taught endlessly not to run with the wrong crowd.
So we have Obama who chose to be closely aligned with a screaming, anti-American bigot preacher for 20+ years, and Hillary who never had enough sense to get rid of a cheating, lying, criminal husband. The dems have really frosted the political cookie for us this time. Are these the best decision-makers they have to offer?

(Kyle-Anne Shiver is a contributor to American Thinkers)
“Senator Obama’s insistence that he shouldn’t be held accountable for a 20-year, close association with Jeremiah Wright because he was never actually there to hear a single snippet of anti-American, racist diatribe is beginning to look a lot like all those “present” votes in the Illinois legislature. He seems to be saying he wants to have his cake and eat it too. And all I can say is if Barack Obama can’t stand the heat of personal scrutiny, he really ought to do us all a favor and get out of the kitchen.”
Every Dem should read, doesn’t matter which camp you come from.

I listened to Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts, III an Abyssinian Baptist minister say that when referring to Obama’s minister that “black people know how to decipher between radical rhetoric and what is practical application of love from God to everybody.” Now, I have been a Christian a lot of years and I have never heard a white or a black minister and I have been to many black church’s…I have never heard any of them ever spew out hatred towards white people or America.
Church is supposed to not have you feel sorry for yourself, or get you angry about past hurts, and it is not about anything other than “who Jesus is and how we need to make Him our point of reference as to how we need to behave.”
Yet the blacks are saying that it is a black thing and they talk like that because we made them slaves at one time. Well I have been to many synagogues and worshipped with Jews and they were far more persecuted than blacks were, not to minimize what blacks went through, only that I never heard any Jews spewing hatred about anything, only worship towards God.
Now, the blacks are trying to justify the racist behavior of who Obamas pastor and friend really is. Before this came out about his pastor he praised him. Now I don’t believe for one minute that Obama never knew of or heard him talk like this…which means he agrees with it or he would have stopped going there a long time ago and not just when he got political heat from it. He only stopped going when it became a problem for his campaign. Now, obama denies knowing anything only he lied. Because he said on national television that his pastor had told him that it might become a problem for him if he did not distance himself from his pastor some day and obama agreed with him.
I told you all along. He is a con artist. I am tired of blacks making excuses and lying for him just so he will get elected because he is black. If Hillary had gone to a church that talked about whites getting beaten up by blacks or blacks being the leading cause of murders and that is why so many blacks are in jail, she would have been called a racist. See there is a double standard that blacks have set up. We can’t call them hoes, but they can call themselves that. We can’t say anything that they think is a racist remark but they can call us crackers or talk about how we oppressed them. I for one am sick of it. I have always defended blacks, loved them, hung out with them, but I am sick now of the double standard they are imposing on whites.
I tell you this that if Hillary does not win the nomination with the vote so close than the Democratic party will be broken. The Democrats will loose many voters. Hillary will take Obama on as Vice President, but he won’t do the same for her. There will be too many hurt feelings. In spite of what has taken place recently, if Obama does win, I will no longer be a Democrat either.
Not one person has ever been able to answer my question as to how Obama is going to pay for any of his ideas, or what plans he will implement to bring about his plans.
For someone who says he wants to bring about change and unite the parties together, well, he has done nothing but pull everyone a part. First telling everyone in Congress that they are the old way of doing things and that they need to leave is not exactly bringing people together. Talk is cheap!! The bible says you will know the tree by its fruit. Look at obamas fruit…who he hangs out with, who he worships with, it is the opposite of what he says. He is double minded, and a double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

In the eighteen hundreds and before no one could justify racism.
No one Can justify racism today.
This is not about white or black. This is about human needs of America.
People in Iowa voted against the past.
We are a United States of America.
READY FOR CHANGE

IS HILLARY PERFECT? NO
IS OBAMA PERFECT? NO
IS McCAIN PERFECT? NO
Economic change
Jobs prosperity
Trade talks
End this war
Gas
Oil

JoAnna, I certainly appreciate and understand your viewpoint. There is one area, however, in which there seems to be a bit of a disconnect. This is not a criticism. I am just curious. You wrote: “Not one person has ever been able to answer my question as to how Obama is going to pay for any of his ideas,…” Yet you support Sen. Clinton who once stated (I believe it was in October 2007): “I have a million ideas. The country can’t afford them all.”

United States of America…is that how BHO plans to honor support her, by not wearing a flag, or covering his heart during the Star Spangled Banner?
If you want to throw mud, like everyone seems so eager to do with Hillary from her past, lets go to BHO,s history with drugs and alchol.
To all, seen the polls ot of Pennsylvania today? Hillary is on a role, and is a solid win over Mccain.
Lastly, get out your bibles and sunday best, I am sure BHO will be turning his speech into a chorus of “amens” in the audience…hand picked audience.

If he doesn’t know what Wright believes and stands for the last 20 years, then he is a dumb head and can’t qualify to be an US President. If he know and ignore it, then he is one of the anti Americans and live in United State unfortunately. Either case, he should drop the race and quit the Senate.

For all those talking about it all starting in Iowa and people spoke in Iowa about wanting Obama – Well, that was BEFORE they knew about his friendship with Mr. Wright. I’ve spoken to tons of people who want their votes back. Obama is a liar and a politician just trying to spin his racist radical beliefs to win the nomination/presidency. I don’t feel like I even want to watch his upcoming speech. I cannot believe him anymore. He is tarnished in my book. I can forgive him but that does not mean I will vote for him to hold the highest power in the world.

What sheep the American public are! Do you actually think that these are new revelations? Clinton has been waiting to release these tapes to the media and used Ferraro to give her an excuse to release them. Why do you think she will not release her tax returns? When the media finds out she took millions in kickbacks then you will swing back to Obama’s camp. Media controls everything judgment you make. Sheep!

Can we agree the reason behind Obama taking the subject of race and developed it into a mayor speech was because he got caught? Otherwise this great speech would never occurred. He first denied knowing of Wright’s rhetoric. When he got caught then he gave this speech, but really, what else could he do? But that’s fine; all politicians lie. What I object about Obama is that he allowed his daughters to witness Wright’s demagogue thus perpetuating the cycle, diminishing the very post-racial America he is trying to achieve. That is a huge lack of judgment.

The problem is that religion is much too often used to divide and build hate, and this is misuse and abuse. People should not tolerate it. Falwell also blames the US for AIDS and various preachers have blamed 9/11 on the presence of homosexuals in America, abortion, etc. etc.
Every now and then the Left and the Right reach back so far in their confused logic that they end up holding hands. This is one of those times and can ultimately help both the Right and the Left to wake up by showing all of us how important it is that religion completely avoid slander.
Gandhi advocates separating the person from their deeds and views all people as fundamentally oriented toward goodness. He also advocates a stance of complete personal responsibilty toward the happiness of others—all others. This is a stance that can work. He based his efforts for justice entirely on it. Every time this is used truly great results occur. It’s just extremely difficult to sustain.
It is easier to hurl a mountain into aeons of dust than it is to achieve a transformation of the human heart. Nonetheless this transformation is what we must accomplish. And we must do it ourselves—not by relying on demagogue leaders, elected or otherwise.
Judgment is one degree removed from the 5 senses—a necessary aspect of life but often over-trusted, particarly when aimed toward other human beings. Analytical ability and spiritual awareness are more valuable. And even more valuable yet is a sincere desire for, and actions taken on behalf of, the happiness of others.