Letters to the Editor
maureenodonnell
Published Letters: 590 Editor's Choice: 5
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KcM, I'm not inveighing against your intelligence but I find it impossible to understand why you're so vehement in yor defence of Obama's affiliation with Preacher Wright.
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Quite frank;y, what does it matter what Obama says now that the heat is on? The Jeremiah Wright story was all over the Internet for quite some time so that even I, on this western outpost of Europe had read about his "trenchant" outpourings. It was only when the video was shown which clearly demonstrated Wright's hatred for America that people recoiled. There's no doubt but that Bush and his cohorts have done a lot of harm in the world but that does not justify the deats of innocent people in New York, many of them non-Americans and all of them free of guilt in the neo-con odyssey as far as I'm concerned.
Are you taking me for a fool? Obama's response was pathetic and, what's more, nobody has bothered to explain what attracted him to a segregationist Church in the first place because, despite all the humming-and-hawing, that's clearly what it is. Michelle Obama was a member of that congregation and introduced her Hawaiian- born husband to that particular cauldron of hatred. This man, Obama, has rejected his white American mother when it suited him for political purposes and that disloyalty, far more deep-rooted than your political expediency, sticks in my craw. In California, he suddenly remembered that the woman who brought him into the world was not an African-American and neither were the grandparents who raised him and cared for him. Is it literature you want, KcM? How about it being "sharper than a sepent's tooth to have an un ungrateful child". I haven't quite worked out who is pulling his strings but there's little doubt about the manipulation. In an earlier post the fellow who rejoices in the name of Mack and is an Obama supporter, came at me and. unwittingly, destroyed his own argument when he wrote of people walking out of church in Ireland when they were opposed to what the man in the pulpit was preaching. Yes, they did and that shows a hell of a lot more courage than "Yes we can".
A year ago nobody would have thought the Republicans had a hope in the 2008 election but now what's the betting. Mr. Talking-through-both-sides-of-his=mouth has given them a bonanza. Good night.
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Yes, Mr. Payne, I don't need pictures
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know that Paul Robeson was a great singer but I could do without your disdain, based on my ethnic origins and the fact that I'm a woman. It's difficult to stay polite with someone like you and the temptation is to tell you to "Get knotted", as we often say here to silly, irritating people, but I can see that you are already quite twisted so I'll save my breath to cool my soup and hope your vocabulary will soon extend beyond your preoccupation with the nether regions of the body. The best of luck in your endeavours.
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MacK p.7, I answered your mantilla musings yesterday but in your will-of-the-wisp way you evaporated when I pointed out that you were talking through your hat.
[Read the article: Memo to Clinton and Obama: Stop spinning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The main purpose of your posts today is to accuse everyone who doesn't bow to your imagined superior knowledge of being a troll, That should frighten them off! You'd also like it if Pastor Jeremiah Riot disappeared into the mist but Youtube has a gorgeous video of him in rattling great form directly mocking and reviling Hillary Clinton, the Romans and whoever else comes to mind but, most of all, the country which allows him to deliver his jeremiads, the USA. I liked his dancing in the pulpit though. What a mover! The pastor has now been put out to pasture where he can chew the cud as much as he wants because I'm reasonably sure he'll be living in clover. Someone should tell Jerry Riot that St. Patrick was Roman Welsh and was taken to Ireland as a slave. This man is an eejit and anyone who takes any notice of him is an even worse eejit who is ignorant of history. It was the Germanic tribes who caused the Romans most heart-scald and who led to the final rupture of the Roman Empire. Strangely enough, these tribes were white, Giuliani and Ferraro are of Italian descent and, with a dizzying leap of the imagination, Jeremiah could link them to the Roman Empire without ever admitting that Roman society endorsed slavery even of its own. Gladiators could buy their freedom if they excelled in the Roman arenas. Spartacus was a Greek slave who trained gladiators, escaped and started a rebellion. Jeremiah Riot should hang his head in shame for desecrating the memory of Americans and non-Americans who were "put to the sword" in New York on llth September 200l, for inciting racial hatred and for his grotesque distortions of history.