Letters to the Editor
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god is over rated
and if it was on America's side, why did it give us such scum as Bush and Cheney?
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Charles Dickens must be writing for Hillary Clinton
And Tiny Tim said "God bless us, each and every one!"
Are freakin kidding me?
The Wright issue was flimsy to begin with. It's dead now.
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don't you mean obama's wright problem?
We now know from Obama's answer at the last debate that he had seen Rev. Wright's remarks in Rolling Stone in Feburary of 2007 and deemed them to be enough of a problem to deep six the Reverend from speaking at his announcement. At the same time, Obama is now characterizing those remarks as "not of the sort that we saw that offended so many Americans." Go read the quote from the Rolling Stone article again. I doubt most Americans would agree, which only lends itself to the notion that Obama hasn't been fully forthcoming about what he knew about his pastor's incendiary language and when he knew it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/the_anatomy_of_wrights_disinvi;_ylt=Al.N5uSVOPWzP38y90BOlIgDW7oF
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The only way Democrats can approach faith is with generic platitudes.
The moment they indicate that have any heartfelt spiritual affinity for anything not learned in college level poly-sci and/or sociology they run the risk of irritating their activist core. Just like any GOP candidate has to genuinely pretend to have real faith else they piss off the fundies.
It's really unbridgeable. As the country becomes more and more faith oriented with every decade, Democratic politicians have a thinner razor blade to walk on. So they're left having to mouth unassailable platitudes like "Doing Good is Good" "We should all love one another" "I identify with the message of Jesus" etc etc etc.
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God yes!
Repubs have beat that horse to death. Trying to ape them does the dems no good. (Wright is the best example of that.) Remember that Obama's bitter comment only illustrated what the repubs have done in elections for many years. God, gays and guns. Nuff said.
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"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine. My sins are my own they belong to me. Me"
The great Patti Smith
As long as Americans base their votes on which fairytale a candidate pretends to believe we're fucked.
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Judgement is the issue for Obama
A radical pastor my be the catalyst for the discussion but a question of judgment is the real issue facing Obama. Obama is asking the American people to take a leap of faith on his candidacy. We are being asked to hope and trust in him, to believe his rhetoric. Some people, apparently about half the Democrats need a bit more. The problems with Rev. Wright brings to the fore questions regarding his judgment. Someone qualified to sit in the oval office should have seen this coming. Politics, not the "new poltics" that Obama would like to usher in means that he is going to be dogged by the problems with Rev. Wright through the remainder of the primary and most certainly throughout the general election, if nominated.
Some will lament the unfairness and racism of the situation and they may be right; however, a change to a more perfect political environment is not going to happen in a few months. Some would say it isn't going to happen anytime soon. We are an imperfect people as are our candidates. All indications are that the remainder of the election is going to be the same brutal gauntlet as we have come to expect. Can the rhetorical campaign of Obama survive under these conditions, we shall see. Does he have the maturity, the political skill and the stamina to fight all the way till November? Who knows he has never been tested on the big stage before. Is Obama just a very ambitious individual who after winning the ultimate political prize would he be uninterested in the daily grind of the Presidency? Again who knows since we have so little to go on due to his short track record. He certainly has not been that interested in being a Senator since he started running for a higher office the minute, or before he walked into the chamber.
Now let the chorus begin that Obama's current problems are all the fault of Hillary, the media, etc. It was inevitable as high flying as was the Obama campaign and the euphoria of his supporters that rougher days were ahead before November. One thing is for certain the old war horse Hillary, who has proven to be as tough as nails and a political realist will be right on his heels till the bitter end of this race.
I know, I know, Hillary's a bitch, a liar, underhanded, a cheat, and all the other expletives that Obama supporters throw at her but she may in the end be the best candidate.
Winning the election is the real goal which I hope we all can agree upon and if Obama stumbles, or is judged unelectable by enough super delegates guess who will be the nominee.
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Stubbornly Secular
Yep, I'm one of those stubbornly secular people. I just won't get with the program, no kool aid for me thank you very much. I thought separation of church and state was built right into our government, and it amazes me that in this day and age it is even still relavant, at all. I think we have seen what governments, societies and countries look like that have let religion take over. (Iraq, Iran, Yemen . . etc.) It affects them ecomonically, culturally. This country needs to focus less on religion, and more on science education, environmental issues, and many other things besides religious delusions.
Jeez - we are really gonna be screwed in this country if we don't.
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Dear God...
Please let the educated youngens' take over and make this religious bullshit a non issue.
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Barack Played the God Card, But He Pulled the Joker From the Deck
One characteristic that separated Barack and HRC was the perception that Hillary was an almost-proud, pathological liar and hypocrite, her words and actions dictated by polling results, recommendations by cynical advisers concerned only with one goal: Victory. In contrast, Obama seemed the virtuous, idealistic, honest and, most important, ingenuous anti-Hillary.
The Wright fiasco has cost him that advantage forever.
It's obvious by now that he too, like his opponent, decided that to win the presidency a candidate needed to play the god card. Unfortunately for him, he choose from a deck of 53 cards, and wound up pulling the Joker. Perhaps Barack felt he could manage this obscure pastor from a local church, could trot him out on occasion to vouch for the candidate's bone fides, and then send him back to his obscurity.
But Wright was Wright; and Barack was wrong. And now his cynical ploy has come back to bite him like a pit bull.
Watching Wright perform in his 15 minutes of fame, it is impossible for one to think that a man of Barack Obama's intelligence could ever sincerely consider the good reverend his "spiritual adviser," way back when or now. But Obama could certainly see Wright as a useful stooge in the I-am-a-religious-man front needed to be an electable candidate in the current America.
Now the Barack sheen has lost some of its luster, the ontological difference between he and HRC has shrunk to a quantum distance.
He played the calculating games politicians play and for doing that, he became just another politician.