Comments on: North Carolina TV Stations Refuse to Air Anti-Obama TV Ad

By: Wanda

Wanda — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:12:55 +0000

This comment refers back to the lady that called into the Michael Baisden show the other day and said that Hillary could do more for African-Americans than Barak. She said that if black men would not be doing what they are doing to get in trouble then they would not have to worry about if the system is unjust. What about Sean Bell? I think you know how the story goes. People also need to wake up and know that George Washiington was not the 1st President. Look up the informaiton on John Hanson, and he was not a white man.

By: janet

janet — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:04:23 +0000

Why should Sen. Obama have another debate with Hllary Clinton? Everyone with a 6th grade education knows Hillary Clinton has is in Financial troubles with her campaign, that she is not willing to pay for with their fortune. She wants to debate NOT TO TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES but to take cheap shots so that she can get FREE PRESS using the guillable talking heads that’s suppose to be News Reporters, Sen.Obama has shown he is above all of the politics as usual, Sen. Clinton simply wants to get much needed Free Press The American voters are saying she is worth $109,000,000.pay for your campaign yourself.

By: BONNIE

BONNIE — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:51:33 +0000

OBAMA IS REFUSING ANOTHER DEBATE WITH HILLARY. IF HE CAN’T HANDLE HER, THEN IT SPEAKS TO HIS INABILITY AND LACK OF EXPERIENCE TO LEAD AN ENTIRE COUNTRY.
ALTHOUGH SENATOR OBAMA IS A CHARMING AND ELOQUENT SPEAKER, WE NOW KNOW HE FIZZLES AND FALLS APART WHEN HE HAS NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE QUESTIONS POSED TO HIM (ABC’S DEBATE).
SENATOR OBAMA’S “FINGER” TO HILLARY AND THE “BRUSHING OFF HIS SHOULDER” GESTURES CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE HIS POOR JUDGEMENT AND HIS CAPABILITY TO ACT INAPPROPRIATELY. THIS ATTROCIOUS BEHAVIOR BY OBAMA (OR ANY OTHER CANDIDATE) SHOULD BE A “WAKE UP CALL” AS TO WHETHER OR NOT SENATOR OBAMA CAN BE CONSIDERED AS “PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MATERIAL”.

By: dennis

dennis — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:48:49 +0000

I think we all owe a debt to the McCain campaign for painting the Clinton clan further into a corner with this issue.
Last week I was horribly dispondent about the way the Dem primary was headed (and I’m from MI), but this week has brought me renewed confidence that the majority of American’s will do the right thing and elect Barack Obama in November. Thanks to the NC GOP !!!

By: orin

orin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:49:26 +0000

It is high time this foolishness stopped!!! Pastor Wright’s sermons should be heard in their entirety before people make these idiotic assumptions!!HE DID NOT LIE!!! MI and FL voters WON’T be disenfranchised if certain delegates aren’t seated at the DNC. Sen.Obama DID NOT belittle smalltown America in his comments nor has his campaign EVER played the race card.I used to be a Hillary supporter up until a couple of months ago.The tone of her campaign has gotten far too negative and decietful.More important her supporters refuse to back Sen.Obama if she is not the nominee.Talk about cutting your nose off to spite your face!!

By: Think about it

Think about it — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:05:58 +0000

Think about it…do you want to elect someone who says, after 20 years, that he never heard or knew of Wright’s anti-American and racist rhetoric? Doesn’t that bring into question his ability to “know” or “hear” what foreign leaders, friendly and not so friendly, are saying if he were to be president??
Of course, I think he did know and hear, but is lying, but that’s another issue…

By: Trudy

Trudy — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:26:50 +0000

I have not seen the ad. What I have seen is Bill Moyer’s fabulous interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and I have watched nearly all of Rev. Wright’s 2001 sermon. I am white, and mostly unfamiliar with the tradition of black preaching. But having seen the interview and heard the sermon, I believe that anyone (including right wing republicans with a strong anti-Obama objective) watching these 2 pieces in their entirety would understand the full context of his message. I believe anyone viewing these in full would appreciate the unfamiliar (to whites) rhetorical device used by a preacher who loves humanity and has a deep, and well researched distrust of government–ANY government. His sermon is not anti-American. The right wing cynically spins it this way with an endless loop of ONE SENTENCE, on Fox “news.” I am certain Fox news staff did watch ALL of the reverend’s sermon, and they likely did watch all of Bill MOyer’s interview with Wright last night. Their agenda is to knowingly twist and manipulate with 100% dishonesty. They KNOW the full context of his sermon. Yet they pretend to not know, to not understand, to regard as “racist” (there is nothing in his sermon that condemns white people, by the way) a clear message that was put in a context of thousands of years–i.e., government is a power that can abuse its trust and serve only the interest of the powerful. When it does, it has departed from what we know to be godly. Rev. Wright asks us to be guided by God, not blindly faithful to any one government that defies what we know is right. Deep down, we all know our own government consolidates power, bombs civilians, tortures prisoners–all in ways that are decidedly NOT Christian. Yet when a black man shouts that truth out in the tradition of black preaching, we decry HIM as racist. That reaction dismisses our obligation to be responsible in the world, to face that the US, like all governments, abuses its power. That was his message.

By: Lena

Lena — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:29:38 +0000

I would like to ask Linda Daves why was it NO BIG DEAL when then Republican Presidential nominee Ronald Regan opened his presidential campaign kick off speech at the County Fair in Neshoba, Mississippi on August 3, 1980?
With the fairgrounds covered with dozens of Confederate flags, Regan stated these words!!!!!
“There isn’t any place like this anywhere.”
“I believe in states’ rights. I believe that we’ve distorted the balance of our government by giving powers that were never intended in the Constitution to the federal establishment.”
As we all remember this to be the area made infamous with the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.
How can we forget him characterizing poor women as welfare queens driving around in pink Cadillacs, and “to send the welfare bums back to work”.
With all the racial polarization that characterized this former president, I dare she even attempt to polarize Rev. Wright as anything but honest, and simply telling the truth, as we all know THE TRUTH HURTS!!!!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:18:40 +0000

Why are we treating Obama and Reverend Wright as though they have something to apologize to the American people for? Obama is not responsible for what Jeremiah Wright says. Furthermore, IT IS THE TRUTH! And the only people who have a problem with it are close-minded, Conservative, white racists who can’t make the connection that you cannot do bad things to the citizens of your own country, and you cannot go outside of your country and do bad things to people without expecting it to happen directly in your own back yard. People go around here like they are sooo shocked and outraged that 9/11 happened… but with our government being as shady as it is, is it any wonder? We NEVER stopped to THINK about WHAT IS OUR GOVERNMENT DOING to the indigenous people around the world that make them retaliate in VIOLENCE. Bigotry begets bigotry. Anger begets anger. Violence begets violence. Terrorism in the form of slavery and extermination of Native Americans begets anti-American sentiments here and around the world. GET OVER IT!

By: H Jett

H Jett — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:32:02 +0000

To the radio stations that refused to air the add against Sen.Obama I say thank you. There are still people of dignity in this world.
If Rev. Wright would have let his words be few Sen.Obama would not have to deal with this. Church and politics don’t mix well together. Furthermore if Rev. Wright had so much to say about Sen. Obama it could at least been positive. Now instead of praying about the sistuation Rev. Wright has just opened another can of worms.