Letters to the Editor
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@bringbackmalcolm
So you told your 25 year old daughter that "everybody hates Black folks"? I understand that your post touches on something very personal for you, but why are you setting your daughter up for a lifetime of racial paranoia? There is no racial or religious group on earth which is hated by "everybody". By framing humanity in such a way, you are doing a tremendous disservice not only to your daughter but also to the many millions who hate no one, who instead struggle to understand life in the other persons's shoes.
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@ jebldmm
But, the minister isn't running for office. And, Obama has denounced Wright's ramblings and divorced himself, so to speak, from his comments. But, that isn't good enough for some. Focusing on Wright is like focusing on that blow job. Oh, and it will be fair game if that repulsive non-feminist, partnering with the once-hated vast right-wing conspiracy group (who will later eat her up), manages to pull off this magic trick of misdirection.
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@reality_counts
"he had to distance himself because he is a politician"
Like that's a bad thing?
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I was so happy to see Americans turn on Bush's nonsense
I am just as disappointed to see the renewed appetite for his brand of distractionist nonsense is insatiable.
I have been living abroad for a few years now and was delighted to see an international recognition beginning to emerge that America was coming to its senses.
How short-lived that was. We're fast returning to the old caricature of frothing-mouthed buffoonery and swift-boat sleaze. Once again, Americans seem set on letting the world down.
Enough.
I'm sick of my country looking like a banana republic gone bananas. Since I know Americans themselves can be better than this, I have to conclude that it is our political system itself that has turned our international leadership into a farce that even the Daily Show cannot adequately ridicule.
I have news for you- your country is becoming an international joke.
Our bipartisan excuse for a "political system" leaves little choice in this.
Now may be our last chance to change course before we simply slip into a spiral of global irrelevance. Fiddling even as Rome burns.
Now may be our last chance to show that we are the nation that we used to be.
Now may be our last chance to Écrasez l’infâme.
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@haut
Exactly HOW is Hillary "fanning" the flames?
What EXACTLY is she doing or saying or has said or done in all of this except to say what Obama should have known a long time ago, that she would never had stayed with a pastor who said those things?
Oh, but of course, this is all Clinton's fault. Blame Hillary for Wright. Sorry, bub, no one forced Wright's hand. And no one forced Obama to listen to him, be friends with him, be married by him, and receive spiritual guidance from him for 20 FREAKING YEARS! While I don't dislike Obama and I feel sorry for him because of this mess, he is disingenuous at best to suggest that he never knew all of this about Wright.
Just WHOSE presidency are you comparing Bill Clinton's too? Bush I, Bush II, Raygun, Nixon, etc.? Bill Clinton's presidency, regardless of Lewinsky, was the best damn presidency either side of FDR. We were solvent, not at war and regardless of NAFTA (which is a necessary evil for our globalized economy but has serious flaws needs recalibration and rewriting) and pretty damn happy as a nation compared to now. You so-called analysis is complete bullshit and just standard underhanded tar and feathering from Obamabot's bible of arguments. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Just more blah pretending to actually mean something.
And Rev. Wright is exactly as Joan said. He is a classic narcissist who cannot stand NOT being in the limelight and cannot stand the fact that Obama had to distance himself from him and disown what Wright preached. He is a classic narcissist in that he NEEDS to prove himself right at all costs, regardless of whether it helps Obama or hurts him.
Unfortunately, for Obama, Wright's a chicken that has definitely come home to roost.
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@AKASmith
I'll let your past argument speak for themselves.
And you're right, I am here to to "drum up votes for Ralphie." And Ron Paul and Bloomburg and anyone else who might be able to derail this runaway locomotive.
Basically, I'm here to advocate destroying this whole joke of a process before we are destroyed by it.
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@ debaser
I admire your optimism.
I wish I could share it.
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@ damnthatxanadu
"Exactly HOW is Hillary "fanning" the flames?
What EXACTLY is she doing or saying or has said or done in all of this except to say what Obama should have known a long time ago, that she would never had stayed with a pastor who said those things?"
"He wouldn't have been my pastor."
"You can't choose your family, but you can choose your church/pastor [forget which]."
"Farakkhan, Farakkhan, Farakkhan."
Please, try and keep up.
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@weeping for brunnhilde
"He wouldn't have been my pastor."
"You can't choose your family, but you can choose your church/pastor [forget which]."
"Farakkhan, Farakkhan, Farakkhan."
WOW! That's a lot! That's HUGE!
And stating the obvious logic that Obama should have paid attention to is "fanning the flames"? Wow, that's really damnable! Really awful of Clinton!
Perhaps if Obama had "kept up" with some of that, none of this would a problem.
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@ damnthatxanadu
Whatever.
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we may or may not have a black president (i hope we will)
but i can tell you one thing - his handle WON'T BE 'bringbackmalcolm'. why? he isn't some shit for brains "i WILL be ignorant" nigger (that was ONLY for him folks, he says, first sentence, "I haven't read any letters, and won't.") TYPICAL, whine for me argentina, black academic, was REFUSED marcus garvey's medals and now will GO ON STRIKE till he's given the RESPECT he DEMANDS.
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The problem with liberals
is that most are totally ignorant about churches.
"Do any of you people go to church? For most sane people, church is not some alternate reality where they leave their critical mind at the door. Just because Obama listened to Wright for 20 years doesn't mean he became Wright. Like any thinking member of a congregation he absorbed the good and politely filtered out the bad, sticking around because, like any churchgoer will tell you, the pastor is not the church."
As an atheist, we are enthusiastic (sometimes) members of our Unitarian church. We listen to the sermons. Some I agree with, some not. I mostly agree. When I agree, I mention it. When I disagree, I don't.
But for the ignorant morons (that is, Klintoonistas), we don't go to the church only for the minister. She is only one reason. There are 20 reasons why we belong to the church, and continue to attend.