Posted on 03/19/2008 2:54:22 AM PDT by suspects
Forget the Straight Talk Express. Barack Obama’s campaign has the biggest bus in this presidential campaign and yesterday he threw everybody under it.
Even his grandmother.
As a former speechwriter myself, I was looking forward to Obama’s remarks yesterday because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how anyone could talk themselves out of Obama’s predicament. How does Obama - the Kumbaya Candidate - explain his 20 years at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s black power church? How does a uniter spend every Sunday in the pews where anti-white, anti-Semitic and anti-American conspiracies and kookery are preached on a regular basis?
It’s like discovering that John McCain is a closet pacifist, or that Hillary Clinton is Rush Limbaugh’s Client No. 9.
Yesterday I got my answer. Blame everyone.
I knew we were in trouble when Obama compared the hapless but harmless Geraldine Ferraro with the Rev. Wright on the “racial insensitivity” scale. And invoking the memory of the O.J. Simpson trial in a speech on racial unity left some of us wondering if the Tawana Brawley references were cut at the last minute.
Obama did say that some of Wright’s comments were “wrong” and “divisive.” He also admitted that he had in fact been in church for some comments that “could be considered controversial - just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagree.”
Uh, no.
As a graduate of Oral Roberts University who grew up attending church five times a week - including tent revivals, healing services and the handling of less-than-friendly reptiles - I can honestly say that I never attended a service where the minister preached race hatred, anti-Israel paranoia or used the phrase “ridin’ dirty” in a theological context.
And other than Obama...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
“...and the only way to “cure” folks like Rev. Wright is more federal spending, to ease the pain and assuage the guilt.”
Standard liberal nonsense, with no economic or social facts in view.
Well, as a member of the ELCA for a number of years, I did hear anti-American talk from the pulpit after 9/11. But then I left that church for that very reason (along with another).
Obama hasn’t. And that’s the nut of it.
I don’t remember that at all. I’d love to have an archived video of that event.
You showed the courage Obama lacks.
When I worked for the Defense Dept in then West Germany during the 70’s, we wondered how it could be that the German people couldn’t have known about the concentration camps, couldn’t have stood up against the evil racist stuff going on back in Hitler’s time.
It is this kind of trickle of acceptance - and lack of courage - that is the greatest danger to a society
composed of people with so many different backgrounds.
We need all of these different backgrounds to make our country great. We don’t need white, black or any other kind of racists. We do need people who will stand against them.
LOL!
Blasphemy—exactly! At least in the videos I saw, the “sermons” had nothing to do with the Bible, New or Old Testament. Nothing of Christianity, only this hatred, these incredibly stupid accusations. No, I believe this church’s sole purpose is to prepare people for race wars. If, as some have asserted to interviewers, ALL black churches are like this, then we have a huge problem in this country.
Courage had nothing to do with it. It was disgust with what was being preached from the pulpit, knowing I had options. Courage comes when such decisions are made in the face of adversity, or potential backlash. I would suffer none of that.
But neither would Obama. There are other churches. Ophra was able to make that decision to leave (from what I’ve read she did so because of what such a relationship could do to her image). For whatever reason, it was the right decision.
Obama chose to stay. And because of that, he should be held to account.
You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!
I can’t take credit for that. I stole it from another Freeper. I wish I remembered who coined it, but I don’t
It is not racist to vote for Obama because he is black, but it is racist to not vote for Obama because he is black.
It’s just rhetoric.
His whip was a janky hooptie.
Actually, it's not THAT hard to believe. Now, I understand that they must have known about the evil racist attitudes, but people have jobs to keep, families to feed. There were (are) things you just couldn't talk about. We have them too, we call it political correctness, which is a communist concept. I often wonder, if the fascists took over, would we know it? The benefit of hindsight is everything. Mussolini was just the leader of Italy. He didn't become MUSSOLINI until people looked back on it. When did Hitler go from being the unsavory, populist, demagogue leader of Germany to being the greatest monster the world has ever known? I submit it didn't happen overnight.
And as Newt Gingrich said how come he couldn’t get the Rev to see the light in those 20 years
And if he couldn’t convert the Rev how is he going to influence world Leaders
Ha. Ha. I still like Rush. He was saying what a whole lot of folks were thinking and doing in Texas and Ohio. Rush has “backpedaled” a bit on this has he not?
Obama will not get the delegates in Pennsylvania that he got elsewhere.
LLS
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