Letters to the Editor
-
Joan, you're wrong
Joan writes:
...deserved to be compared to Wright, a public figure who's built his career around a particularly divisive analysis of American racial politics. It is easily the most tin-eared thing I've ever heard Obama say .
Reverend Wright has not built his career around a particularly divisive analysis of American racial politics. Did you hear Obama's speech, or read it? Reverend Wright is also a product of his time, just like Obama's white grandmother. Obama explains this, at length. Wright doesn't peddle this crap for political gain, say, like Falwell did, or Pat Robertson does. He doesn't have a TV show spewing his stupid remarks every week.
Every time Walsh takes one step forward, she takes two back. Joan is becoming too much like the right-wing pundits she claims to detest: she more and more thinks someone is "disingenuous" that is, lying, simply because she says so. I don't see any evidence, Joan, that Obama is lying, or insincere. You, like so many of your colleagues, have become so accustomed to parsing and analyzing to death someone's words that they then take a meaning not intended by the speaker. Even Ferraro was a victim of this, with endless loop re-play.
YUCK.