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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention

Some problem-plagued nations could ill afford to devote so much time and energy to a matter of this sort. Thankfully, the U.S. isn't one of them.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:33 PM

Oh, and funny...

you don't look moosish!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:35 PM

-- William Timberman

"Can't hardly wait."

This weekend is the second weekend of JazzFest. Most of the world's best crawfish cookers will be busier than a one-armed paper hanger.

Be sure to wash those mudbugs down with copious amounts of beer. It makes no difference which brand of beer as long as it isn't Coor's.

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Pedinska, Darlin.....it all depends (heh, heh) upon whose ass is getting lit up, eh?

Cabbage, indeed.

Damn..while I was Nascar'n at 'Dega, I missed the Annual Mullet Toss at the Florabama.

Shame on my ass.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:37 PM

@Jebbie

missed the Annual Mullet Toss at the Florabama

Why would you let some other dude toss your haircut?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:38 PM

Lung'eyelund?

Definitely not south of the Mason-Dixon line. None of that driving Miss Daisy stuff up there, I'm sure.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:38 PM

RMP

What angered Barack the most, was the implication from Wright that Barack was politically pandering when he rejected Wright’s soundbite remarks. To me, Barack doesn’t pander and does speak the truth as he sees and believes it.

You appear to be claiming that Barack Obama thinks he would have been better off it he had been busted for his early adult drug use and kept from ever running for president by a criminal record.

That is what Senator Obama advocates for other young men who are doing exactly the same things now that the Senator did back then. Clearly Obama thinks it would have been better for both himself and the nation if he had been kept from ever running for president.

Either that or the Senator knows the drug war is futile, counter productive and ruins a great many young lives and is pandering to the drug warriors amongst us.

I wonder which is the more likely explanation?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:41 PM

And please don't laugh at any Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor

Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, etc...

Take out the colorful and bawdy language and four letter words and you have Rev. Wright's act. Black humor for the dinner theater crowd.

You probably don't think Redd Foxx or Richard Pryor or Chris Rock were funny. More a Jeff Foxworthy or Larry The Cable Guy kinda guy? I don't think Billy Graham was really a hatemonger, do you, Gerry? I think he was just ignorant, like Wright and you, Gerry.

Graham regrets Jewish slur
The Reverend Billy Graham has apologised for a taped conversation with former President Nixon in which he said the Jewish "stranglehold" of the media was ruining the United States and must be broken.

The remarks came in 500 hours of tapes Nixon had secretly recorded during the first six months of 1972 which have now been released by the US National Archives...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1850077.stm

Billy Graham, Nixon and the Jews

Almost thirty years after President Nixon resigned in disgrace, the tapes continue to come out, their power to sully reputations undimmed by time.

Now it is the Rev. Billy Graham who has been made to feel the lash of his own words, secretly taped by the president who sought his spiritual counsel and used him for "cover."

We knew, long ago, of Nixon's own anti-Semitism. We heard his voice on the first wave of tapes, wanting to know how his daughters were being deployed in his re-election campaign. When staffers told him they were scheduled to appear at functions in support of the arts, he protested, "No, no, that's Jews and queers."

Nixon himself has long since lost the power to shock us, even when we hear him proposing to drop nuclear weapons on Vietnam.

http://www.counterpunch.org/vestgraham.html

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:43 PM

MONA!! The new guy is pickin on me!!

"Why would you let some other dude toss your haircut?" -- quickstrategy

If I had hair, I might worry about it.

Alas, those days are gone.

BTW, you used to write some good stuff here. What happened? :->

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:45 PM

Billy T wiggles

Oh no old sport, you carry on with the racism is a southern thing all the time. You act like only people from the deep south ever discriminated against the African-American.

We had a special article in the paper here last week, it said the NAACP has finally awoke to the fact that emanate domain was used in a highly racist manner all over the country. They even wrote about the god damn "urban renewal" of LBJ destroying black communities all over the nation. About time we talked about the racism of the of the real "concern trolls" which is the socialist left. Yep, you helped many poor families right out of a home. (poor white also --- a lot in my family)

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:46 PM

It is important despite your facetious attempt to move people along

We knew very little about the man who would be King, and the Wright affair went a long way into fleshing out his judgment (or lack of) and his convictions. Mr. Obama was portrayed as the racially transcendent candidate who would take us over MLK's mountaintop. And he did have the credentials for it; having an African father and a white American mother, and being raised by his white grandparents and marrying to an African American woman. He could have been the one. But his long association with Wright, a divisive and egotistical Afrocentric radical, raises serious doubts whether he was truly racially transcendent (or at least neutral to both sides of the divide). It was Obama who claimed Wright as a spiritual adviser who inspired him to title his book after one of Wright's speeches. Without the Wright fracas, we would be denied a chance to weigh Obama's claims (and find it wanting). Wasn't a lack of information on the idiot child of Bush 41 how George W Bush got shoe-horned into the presidency?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:47 PM

Gerry likes fart jokes

Since he's a dwarf he thinks that's high comedy. It goes right over his pointy little head.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:47 PM

Don't ruin the roux!

I went to a real, honest to goodness crawdaddy feast in NOLA years ago that was hosted by some gardening buddies. They spread some paper out on a table and tipped a steaming barrel full of crawfish, lemons, potatoes, whole onions etc. out on that table and everyone put their bibs on and went to town. If your face and hands weren't a mess, then you just weren't eating enough!

I don't remember any cabbage (I think that must be an Ohio - or German heritage - thang), and they never convinced me to suck out the heads, but that was one incredible evening. The zydeco was kickin'. One of the best nights of my life.

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