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The hysteria over Obama's former pastor's attacks on America shows we're still in thrall to knee-jerk patriotism.
  • Jeremiah Wright is exactly the problem! He is a black Dick Cheney, a hate-mongering villian.

    If this man Wright were white, red, black, yellow, pink or whatever, I still would have had the same visceral reaction to his arrogant hatred and pus spewing narrative! I have never heard such filth! I have never been so saddened.

    I know many races who have been equally wronged who do not spew this kind of garbage!

    I am Polish, and Hitler killed millions of Poles! I also have many Native American friends and they do not have this ugliness erupting from their mouths!

    I am not buying into that this form of verbal sickness is all right! It is all wrong!

    Both of my deceased parents were in the military in World War two, and both of them were wounded. My father cried to his dying day over that war and the misery he witnessed!

    I will not have you degrade any of our American people over patriotism for our country!

    Even though in our family's personal history there were many people killed by Nazi's, and the Russians, I do not go around spewing hatred for the German or the Russian people. It would never enter my mind! I just think that the human race has made many mistakes. I do know if I were in this man's church I would leave after one visit and never return, and I would take a long, hot shower.

    People are trying to sell this malarky as the right wingers reacting on the grounds of some misplaced patriotism. That is all wrong! I opposed the war as do my children. We are not rascists. We are Democrats and we are liberal. I simply have to say that Obama as a man is diminshed in my eyes because he did not walk out of this vituperative hate-mongering faux minister of Jesus love. He engenders hatred. I think that is wrong. It has NOTHING to do with patriotism! My family knows patriotism and the price heros pay. We do not take it lightly. You should be ashamed of this article.

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