Letters to the Editor
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Like this controversy has somehow passed, right
Or should I say, Wright. The clip will be played endlessly if Obama is the nominee. Indys will flee to McCain. Obama will perish.
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The Untold Story from the Balkans
In the final year of husband Bill Clinton's admisistration, Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretly dispatched to Belgrade to engage strongman Slobodan Milosvic in an arm wrestling contest that would decide the fate of the world.
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syphlitic666
Obama neutralized the Klinton Kamp's thinly veiled attempt to make him "too black" instead of "not black enough" as he was characterized a couple months back. For any thinking American, which obviously excludes you and your fellow crackers, Obama's speech ten days ago more than compensated for any trailer trash attempt to link Wright, as if the pastor were running for office. You forgot to parrot your line of "god damn america" drivel. Your handlers will deduct a couple rocks from your crack cache. love, heywood
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@sonofaturnip
You say that Barack's church criticized Israel?
Really?
"BEIT SIRA, West Bank — Ali Abu Safia, mayor of this Palestinian village, steers his car up one potholed road, then another, finding each exit blocked by huge concrete chunks placed there by the Israeli Army. On a sleek highway 100 yards away, Israeli cars whiz by.
“They took our land to build this road, and now we can’t even use it,” Mr. Abu Safia says bitterly, pointing to the highway with one hand as he drives with the other. “Israel says it is because of security. But it’s politics.” "
Israel is the new Nazi Germany. They need a serious spanking. The US Government is too cowed by the Jewish lobby to do anything about them. It will take some serious pressure by American patriots to wean us away from Israel. Israel needs A SERIOUS KICK IN THE BUTT. They are a fascist state, and we need to rein them in.
I agree with Barack's church. Why do you back the fascist state of Nazisrael?
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SHOULD WE ALL BE CAPTIVE TO THE WORDS OF OTHERS
The Clinton's cunningly initiated framing the election around race in South Carolina, and they never really stopped. Hillary Got all the mileage she could from others on Rev Wright first, before she picked up that slimy ball. Should we all be captive to the words of those we know? Barack could call Hillary's judgement into question for being married to an adulterer, but he doesn't. Don't know about you, but the only true representative of me, is me. It is depressing and sad that the
race has devolved into something so base, that Barack's address would be necessary. But hey, he showed integrity. He didn't hide, or throw Wright under the bus. And if things work out, it may have been a blessing in disguise. At a moment of potential peril, Barack swiftly, bravely, honestly, and deftly, rose to the occasion, rose to his station, like one would hope a real leader would. Not talking about a 3am call, but proving real solutions for that call.
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new polls answer the question...
...of what happens when a person running for President, when, faced with some very bad press, instead of trying deflect it, pretend it didn't happen, blame their opponent, spin it, or any of the other standard defenses, actually faces it front on, talks honestly about it, and treats the American public like they actually have a brain and will use it upon occasion.
And mystery upon mystery- holy fuck, it worked.
Seriously folks. I'm beginning to honestly think anyone who isn't sold on this guy yet is really up the tree crazy.
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Letter fro Rev. Wright to Jodi Kantor of the NYT - 3/11/07
Dear Jodi:
Thank you for engaging in one of the biggest misrepresentations of the truth I have ever seen in sixty-five years. You sat and shared with me for two hours. You told me you were doing a "Spiritual Biography" of Senator Barack Obama. For two hours, I shared with you how I thought he was the most principled individual in public service that I have ever met.
For two hours, I talked with you about how idealistic he was. For two hours I shared with you what a genuine human being he was. I told you how incredible he was as a man who was an African American in public service, and as a man who refused to announce his candidacy for President until Carol Moseley Braun indicated one way or the other whether or not she was going to run.
I told you what a dreamer he was. I told you how idealistic he was. We talked about how refreshing it would be for someone who knew about Islam to be in the Oval Office. Your own question to me was, Didn't I think it would be incredible to have somebody in the Oval Office who not only knew about Muslims, but had living and breathing Muslims in his own family? I told you how important it would be to have a man who not only knew the difference between Shiites and Sunnis prior to 9/11/01 in the Oval Office, but also how important it would be to have a man who knew what Sufism was; a man who understood that there were different branches of Judaism; a man who knew the difference between Hasidic Jews, Orthodox Jews, Conservative Jews and Reformed Jews; and a man who was a devout Christian, but who did not prejudge others because they believed something other than what he believed.
I talked about how rare it was to meet a man whose Christianity was not just "in word only." I talked about Barack being a person who lived his faith and did not argue his faith. I talked about Barack as a person who did not draw doctrinal lines in the sand nor consign other people to hell if they did not believe what he believed.
Out of a two-hour conversation with you about Barack's spiritual journey and my protesting to you that I had not shaped him nor formed him, that I had not mentored him or made him the man he was, even though I would love to take that credit, you did not print any of that. When I told you, using one of your own Jewish stories from the Hebrew Bible as to how God asked Moses, "What is that in your hand?," that Barack was like that when I met him. Barack had it "in his hand." Barack had in his grasp a uniqueness in terms of his spiritual development that one is hard put to find in the 21st century, and you did not print that.
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Your editor is a sensationalist. For you to even mention that makes me doubt your credibility, and I am looking forward to see how you are going to butcher what else I had to say concerning Senator Obama's "Spiritual Biography." Our Conference Minister, the Reverend Jane Fisler Hoffman, a white woman who belongs to a Black church that Hannity of "Hannity and Colmes" is trying to trash, set the record straight for you in terms of who I am and in terms of who we are as the church to which Barack has belonged for over twenty years.
The president of our denomination, the Reverend John Thomas, has offered to try to help you clarify in your confused head what Trinity Church is even though you spent the entire weekend with us setting me up to interview me for what turned out to be a smear of the Senator; and yet The New York Times continues to roll on making the truth what it wants to be the truth. I do not remember reading in your article that Barack had apologized for listening to that bad information and bad advice. Did I miss it? Or did your editor cut it out? Either way, you do not have to worry about hearing anything else from me for you to edit or "spin" because you are more interested in journalism than in truth.
Forgive me for having a momentary lapse. I forgot that The New York Times was leading the bandwagon in trumpeting why it is we should have gone into an illegal war. The New York Times became George Bush and the Republican Party's national "blog." The New York Times played a role in the outing of Valerie Plame. I do not know why I thought The New York Times had actually repented and was going to exhibit a different kind of behavior.
Maybe it was my faith in the Jewish Holy Day of Roshashana. Maybe it was my being caught up in the euphoria of the Season of Lent; but whatever it is or was, I was sadly mistaken. There is no repentance on the part of The New York Times. There is no integrity when it comes to The Times. You should do well with that paper, Jodi. You looked me straight in my face and told me a lie!
Sincerely and respectfully yours,
Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Senior Pastor
Trinity United Church of Christ