I guess Obama thinks he can bring us together by throwing his Black Pastor and his White Grandmother under the same bus

What I don't understand is that it looks like Obama is telling the truth. He likes his Grandmother, He likes Rev. Wright.

Should he say he doesn't like his grandmother due to some remarks or say he doesn't like Rev Wright due to some remarks?

Should he deny what both have said, say it never happened?

Why not say that he loves them both, but they are both imperfect, both flawed? Reject their mistakes, but accept them as they are?

Seems to me that's similar to some advice given by some preacher dude I heard about.

So you are equating the anger and (possible) hatred of Rev. Wright to the Holocaust, Rawandan genocide, Darfur, and the current civil war in Iraq between Kurds, Shia, Sunni, et al?

And Obama should be doing more to wave his big magic wand of wilsonian interventionist American foreign policy to cure the Sunni and Shia of their centuries long conflict?

I'll make a note of your views.

Millions of Jewish people were subjected to starvation, concentration camps, and murder, all for Hitler’s attempt to commit genocide on them. Even people in Africa to this day are also fleeing for their freedom from their own people who are starving them and trying to dictate to them how to live. They are fleeing to the point that they have no where to go and it is a huge humanitarian issue, all in the name of hate, the same level of hate that Jeremiah Wright has subscribed to and Obama is tolerant of! Obama should be against all hate, not just the hate he sees fit to justify.

You [Infidel] have coherently expressed the unease which this outpouring of wearisome, anachronistic white guilt is causing in many of us. Perhaps only those who have lived in real world, integrated American communities will recognize the validity and fairness of what you are saying. The irony here is that the Adoration Of Obama is actually objectifying him and by extension, all blacks.

Your words are only proving my contention that most people are stuck in self created bubbles of perception and unable to peer into other people's lifes. You have no idea where the people who post here have lived, and what experiences they have had. Your white guilt assertion is crap as is assuming that your fellow believers are the only ones living in the real world. If you can't see how an old black man can still be angry when he lived through pre civil rights times, then either you are willingly blind, which is bad, or too young, which is a good thing. To accept Rev Wright as a product of his times is not to condone black bigotry or to tolerate it.

To confuse the lack of cyncism with adoration is your mistake, not mine. If people are excited that a presidential candidate can not only form together coherent sentences into complete paragraphs, but turn those paragraphs into a rousing speech, you have to remember it's been a pretty dry period for oratory excellence, and the bar has been set very low.

Finally, you might want to consider what "black folk" are actually saying:

Sound bites from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Jeffersonian (George, not Thomas) reflections on race and politics in this country were not unique or especially shocking. At least, not for black people, who know that older black folks are among the most intolerant people in America. Wright is Old School Black Folk of the stripe who still hold animus of bitter struggle and will set you straight about white people upon request.

Or not.

Obama is of the New School, who see no point in indicting Da White Man for being sheltered and xenophobic because times aren't getting any better slamming white folks for every foul and foible. This mirrors the Hip-Hop Generation's struggle against the Civil Rights luminaries who make their mail flying all over America telling white folks when they're out of pocket or begging them, hat in hand, for a little grace and good will, damning thems that don't conform. It may be a good living, but it is a colossal waste of time.

http://blogs.theroot.com/blogs/thehardline/archive/2008/03/19/obama-s-new-school-tactics.aspx

Reality is a bit more complicated

A few years ago IS just starting out in politics for the JUNIOR Senator, and I say the price was more like 50% below the market. But maybe we could ask Tony. The fact that the market went south afterwards is irrelevant. You seem to have missed the point...but thats ok...some of us haven't.

You and others keep forgetting that Obama was a state senator for eight years and that he wrote some books that made some money, just like the Clintons. Obama has an affidavit from the house sellers stating that Rezko had zero involvement in the transaction. If you want more detail on this story you should check out the link below.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-obamafullwebmar16,1,6766557.story

If he is the most liberal senator, why wouldn't that be a legitimate issue?

Maybe because things mean what I want them to mean, neither more nor less. So what does "liberal" or even "conservative" mean anymore?

Is is really only liberal to vote for improved ethics monitoring in our government? That's one of Obama's "liberal" votes. I wouldn't call the track record of the Bush Administration "conversative". Goldwater must be rolling over in his grave.

We need to get over this Humpty Dumpty politics.

I recall a previous conversation with you where you were telling me how Hillary is despised in your state of Ohio.....What happened?

A lot of Republicans voted for Hillary.

Also, if FL and/or MI are added back in, the required nomination total won't be 2025, it will increase.