To say "the ranting against Rev. Wright is based on racism" as bernbart does is to overlook the fact that one doesn't have to be white to be a bigot.

If these quotes from Wright exemplify some form of Christianity, then God save us from living in "a Christian nation."

“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”

“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”

“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!…We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”

“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”

“The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”

"It is incontestable and deplorable that [African Americans] have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."

"All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate [African Americans] for [their] centuries of exploitation and humiliation."

"We have committed more war crimes almost than any other nation in the world and we won't stop because of our pride, our arrogance as a nation"

For all the Obama supporters who keep complaining about the MSM and its bias against him, yesterday's Washington Post had a story that Obama has had about a 3 to 1 advantage over McCain in its Page 1 stories since Obama became his party's presumptive nominee June 4.

"In overall political stories from June 4 to Friday, Obama dominated by 142 to 96. Obama has been featured in 35 stories on Page 1; McCain has been featured in 13. This dovetails with Obama's dominance in photos...143 to 100.

"This is not just a Post phenomenon. The Project for Excellence in Journalism has been monitoring campaign coverage at an assortment of large and medium-circulation newspapers, broadcast evening and morning news shows, five news Web sites, three major cable news networks, and public radio and other radio outlets. Its latest report, for the week of Aug. 4-10, shows that for the eighth time in nine weeks, Obama received significantly more coverage than McCain."

Rick Warren's comments to BeliefNet make it abundantly clear that Saddleback was not the unbiased and open forum he claimed he was offering McCain and Obama.

To compare evangelical Christians voting for a pro-choice candidate to Jews voting for a Holocaust denier is both offensive and irrational.

I saw this poll this morning and couldn't wait to come over to Salon and see who would be getting the blame, the pollsters, the mainstream media or Hillary Clinton.

Of course, it couldn't be the Obama campaign and its refusal to select Clinton as the vice presidential nominee despite her 18 million votes, worrying more about red states than blue ones and not reaching out to huge blocs of voters who traditionally vote Democratic but who have concerns about Obama that have nothing to do with his race.

As someone said on another website, Barack Obama could butcher a kitten on the White House lawn and his most rabid supporters would not only find a way to justify it, saying it had to be done to win over those all-important voters with feline phobia, but to also attack anyone who criticized it or reported on it.

I hope these people wake up to the fact that their arrogance toward people who express any doubts about Obama, telling them their votes aren't needed, is costing their candidate.

As the Old Testament proverb says, "pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall."

Throw us out of YOUR party, my ass!

I've been a Democrat for more than 40 years and I'm not going to be pushed around by people who can't tolerate dissent.

You won a primary, not permanent ownership of the party.

When you say "Pumas...cannot be reasoned with, they do not respond to logic," Obama and Clinton supporters passed that point long ago.

Both sides are dug into their trenches and continue to lob the same charges of racism and sexism back and forth without changing anyone's mind.

The election is not about who's been discriminated against most in the history of the USA. When you say PUMAs don't care about throwing away any gains made in civil rights of all people, some of us marched for those rights for African-Americans and for women and we care about them more than you know. Those are the rights we're exercising now.

Nor is the argument about whether professional white women or black men deserve the title of most justifiably aggrieved. It's about who can best lead this country. On that, we can agree to disagree.

But I refuse to be silenced or to accept being labeled as bitter, disloyal or a racist by anyone.