Letters to the Editor
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the problem is obama would rather go on vacation
then help america when it desperately needs it.
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I agree that the Wright controversy should not preclude
Obama from becoming president...His first edict while in office shall be to ammend the constitution to outlaw the creation of the AIDS virus to be used against members of a particular race...Second, award the congressional medal of honor to the 19 highjackers on 9/11...Thirdly, he will increase the minimum wage so that all American employees receive a 200,000 raise (just like Michelle)...Lastly, all elderly white women will be sent for re-education...Yes you can Obama, yes you can...
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obama's religious extremism
WASHINGTON — Jesus is black. Merging Marxism with Christian Gospel may show the way to a better tomorrow. The white church in America is the Antichrist because it supported slavery and segregation.
Those are some of the more provocative doctrines that animate the theology at the core of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Barack Obama's church.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/244/story/31079.html
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sonofloud
So basically you are calling Obama a communist religious nut - and revealing your own true colours - Red as a rooster running from the farmer's block.
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Bankrupt
Osama Bin Laden's plan was not just to kill Americans but to bankrupt America by keeping us in a protracted war. Bin Laden and Bush were in a game of chess.
Bin laden wanted to draw us into Afganistan where he believes he could beat us in the mountains and drain us economically. Bush tried to counter by going into Iraq with a false WMD claim and seize the oil to pay for the war. Cheney and Rumsfield thought we could fight this war on the cheap and not put more troops to secure the peace.
Their plans went sour when the civil war broke out and now Bin Laden has America in check. Our economy is on the verge of going bust. Our troops are extended to the point of exhustion, America is divided and some people have the nerve to get upset over a preacher in the pulpit.
We have much bigger issues. Obama was trying to focus on the bigger picture but the media and those that play on the politics of fear knew that America is always distracted on the race issue. Afhganistan is the major importer of cocaine and we are arguing over a preacher who said the same thing as a former mililtary man said about our foreign policy. A policy tht was formed back in the 90's by a group of people that were determined to get their hands on that oil. Cheney when interviewed last week when told that 2/3 of the American people were against the war replied "so."
He and Bush could care less about the American people and some are on this site have the nerve to care about Rev. Wright's patriotism! Rev. Wright did not get us into a war. Rev. Wright did not give tax cuts to the rich. Rev. Wright did not give us No Child Left Behind, high gas prices, and bad press and relationships around the world. 'Get a gripe people! Rev. Wright unlike many of you and Bush and Cheney fought for this country.
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haedheadedwomen
It would be wise before anyone writes an article or a letter on this 'clip' to actually watch the video of the sermon. It is available online. Rev. Wright was actually quoting a former U.S. Ambassador that he had seen on FOX News earlier that week. Those were the words of the Ambassador...a white man.
I'm sure this particular "White" Ambassador hasn't been on Fox News every week for the last 20 years...But it was a good attempt to lay the blame of elsewhere...
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Just reading through sonofloud and odog
Why don't you just have done with it and call Obama die rooi end swart gevaar?
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en swart gevaar
Typo.
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Taliesan - rooi gevaar, swart gevaar
Nah, Taliesan...I like the new Government down in South Africa...At least they're in aggreement with Rev Wright that the CIA invented AIDS...It's nice to see that Magic and Witch Doctors are still useful in the fight against HIV...I am shocked that the new President only has 5 wives and that some are actually over the age of 15...But, Ces't la vie...
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Majorities and Minorities
Garys premise is flawed. There is a patriotism/nationalism problem in the country but it has nothing to do with Wright. He is seeing a connection where none exists.
Minorities by their very nature as minorities have to yell a little louder, make more of a fuss, and generally raise the hyperbole level a bit or two to be heard and responded to. The majority has no such burden, so for example arguments of reverse discrimination by whites are ridiculous but nonetheless believed by most whites. Wright as a leader of his minority needs to use loud and shocking hyperbole. I won’t argue whether he went over the line in his sermons or not.
The issue is that Obama is running as president on the platform of uniting everyone, majorities and minorities. Wrights hyperbole while serving the needs of his people do not in any way serve Obamas unity platform and actually make the majority (whites) fearful of his being in the “pocket” of a minority (blacks). With whites stupidly already believing they are being reverse-discriminated against, having a black president with Wright as spiritual leader becomes untenable.
COncerning Wrights hyperbole, does he have an issue with gays or is he just ignorant like many preachers are? Just asking, seems kind of absurd for Wright to select AIDS to make his point, when in America, aids ferociously first hit the GAY community not the black community. Hell, if he wanted to make a point why did he not focus on the Tuskegee sylphilis experiments which are well documented and speaks explicitly of the inhumanity this government practiced towards black people?
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odog11
I suppose you are at least open about basing your vote on race.
BTB: Zuma is the president of the ANC. Mbeki is still the president of the country.
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Let me sharpen this up for you a bit....
It is not knee-jerk patriotism per se. It is the triumph of emotion over reason which is never a good thing. It is the same effect as parents who will never believe that their child could behave badly and lash out at anyone who says that they have behaved badly. It plays out every day all over this country when some kid who has punched another in the nose gets punished while the punchee who had been goading the puncher for hours gets off scott free. It is a blindness to an underlying principle of the universe, the only thing I actually believe in, cause and effect (aka causality).
The people you rail against are incapable of seeing the causality of action and reaction. And for that reason they are fools.