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• Monday, June 2, 2008 07:53 AM

  @HP

  The facts are that the Rev. Wright has been delivering racist messages from the pulpit for the twenty years that Obama has been a member. From all accounts, Obama never stepped up even once to denounce those views. We've all seen the video of the Rev. Pfleger prancing around delivering mysogynistic and racist rants from that same pulpit...scarcely a week ago.

  The question still hangs in the air: if Barack Obama so completely disagreed with those messages of hate, why did it take him twenty years to get up and walk out the door...and, without saying a WORD of disagreement while a member.

  Call me silly, but, if I'm in a church, or anywhere else, that doesn't reflect accurately my personal views, I'd either stand up and denounce that racism/misogny directly or walk out; it wouldn't take me twenty years to do so, either.

  He either agreed with those comments and stayed, disagreed with those comments but did/said nothing or FINALLY read the hand-writing on the wall and fled. I repeat: Barack Obama chose political expediency over principle.

  If you don't think that white, Christian, conservatives and moderates of both parties...whom we need to win in November...will have this rammed down their throats by the "SwiftBoat" crowd ad infinitum and ad nauseum, you are on your own planet.

  I respect your opinion, HP, but, I think you're wrong on this point.

  —AnaHadWolves Read AnaHadWolves's other letters
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