Letters to the Editor
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@ MaddieP: Good Reminder
I refuse to talk with anyone here who isn't reasonable - Obama or Hillary supporters alike. I'm not super sensitive and i enjoy witticism but some people cross that line and i simple don't engage with those folks.
You must have a tranquil inner life. I can ignore it for so long, but sometimes it feels like death by a thousand small cuts. It doesn't do much for my optimism or faith in humanity. Ya gotta keep coming back and reminding us! Just kidding on this. But I like your attitude and it's something to strive to! I'll work on it. :)
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Oh when the saints come marchin' in
oh when the saints come marchin' in
Lord, I don't wanna be in that number
when the saints come marchin' in.
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To ljwalker:
Are you thinking what I have been thinking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy
When I first saw those attempts at a caricature of an accent, I thought: For sure, this one's a fake.
It's my ignore list by the way. I never engage with it when it is in this particular guise.
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I mean: It is on my ignore list.
Along with a couple of the more misogynistic ones. I highly recommend an ignore list. Since Salon won't provide us with an ignore button and won't properly moderate, I see little other choice.
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The Wright Brothers
Some preachers employ mesmeric poetry to sway the flock.
The passions of faith don't always cower to conform.
Despite the wise necessity of diverging congregation from delegation, there wouldn't be much of our country left without its churches.
So,Rev Wright used some advocate devilment in his policy critiques.
If you took out the posturing and the profanity, would it all be meritless hysteria?
I'm glad Barak Obama could have heard some of that.
I was worrying if the Orator had any real feist.
Sick how racism works. Countless bigot ministers have assaulted the national conscience. McCain has some current ones. They abide in virulence.
Trust me, The Prisoner is still confined by his own octupal limitations.
Kitty Hawk's Day-1 multiple North Irish Nafta Bosnia gender card got chewed up in the backwash of an 8 yr old's helicopter hug..
All the angels are onto Obama now.
And, if you found Pastor Wright in a calm moment, you'd probably like what was in his true and caring courageous heart.
Half the Clinton campaign team works dayjobs for big fatcats.
McCain makes Knucklehead Smith sound like Abba Eban. Doesn't know a lobbyist from a lamppost.
I cheer the O man.
One more piece makes a landslide mosaic: VP Claire McCaskill.
Beat that, ogres!
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Smith
See Smith. You do what most of us do with the nut firm of walker, smith, doc, tex and her many alias'. We ignore you, we don't engage with you. That's the ticket. Not like walker who keeps running to mommy Joan, crying that the people she victimizes are now making her a victim. Boo hoo. Boo hoo. She flamed me today when i didn't even engage her. I magine that. But I don't run to mommy and cry.
Smith, you rock.
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@ MaddieP
If Obama distanced himself would it not look hypocritical? He has said that he was not present when those particular sermons were delivered. He has said that had he been present he would have spoken with Wright about it. He could be lying, yes. But at this point after 20 years wouldn't it just look like positioning?
Sure perceptions and legitimate choices differ, but the real perceptions that matter will be those in November. I sincerely believe he is toast if he doesn't get some distance from this. Better to be branded a bit of a hypocrite than what the RW will do to him in the campaign for the general election. I won't say more, but I have a pretty good idea the level some of this stuff will rise to.
Whether he was present or not for the current clips, there will be more clips and more questions and I just don't think it will end. Obama should say he prayed about it and he doesn't want the American people to have any doubts.
Saying you prayed always works. Look what it has done for Bush.
Look what they did to Kerry by saying he seemed French. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Okay, so I am a bit desperate here. I am at the point where I don't care if he is a hypocrite. I just want a Democratic victory in November.
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@AKASmith
It's a reasonable response. But I should have to insist that Reverend Wright is not out of the mainstream of black ministry. He simply isn't. If you have black friends, of which I've had one in my life (though he was British West Indian, but the experiences are not as dramatically different as you might think), you begin to understand how. There is a degree of tacit supposition that the power structure is their nemesis, and that anything positive coming from it is pried out of its cold dead hand by warriors like MLX, Malcolm X, etc. (speaking of which, MLK was far more of a firebrand with echoes of Wright than his sanitized sterilized 21st century multimedia experience would betray). And I also think there is far less in the way of delicate sensibility in black discourse.
In any case, whether or not my explanations are valid, I am pretty certain Reverend Wright was nothing like a fringe character. You can see this echoed by prominent black pundits, of which the most I've heard is, "this type of thing is not heard in all black churches". Hardly convincing. And so, indeed, Obama could not have been more correct when he said, "I can no more disown Reverend Wright thank I can disown the black community".
And there is a lot to be said about what that means for this country and our existence as a single nation- or not (going by the 9/11 sermon alone, the thing I can't get out of my mind is America's instance that Muhammad Ali enthusiastically enroll in Vietnam. That his not doing so was, in the eyes of White America, a form of treachery, and showed the blacks were not thankful for all they'd been given). But it also says a lot about any political strategy that would make Wright's affiliation with Obama any more a factor in this campaign than it already is. As inextricably as Obama is linked to Wright, Wright is linked to the black community even more so. So while that's great news for Republicans, I fail to see the advantage in Democrats playing it up.
So, if you agree to accept the hypothetical, at least for argument's sake- is what Senator Clinton's doing right now wrong for her party and this country, or not?