The second time, as farce.
Not that the first time was, strictly speaking, a *tragedy*.
By Moe Lane Posted in 2008 | Obamafiles | Rev. Jeremiah Wright | The Best Democratic Primary EVER — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
They say two wrongs don't make it right /
But it damn sure makes it even.
- Rap artist Sister Souljah, whose famous line "If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?" that had been made about the same time prompted the following response from Bill Clinton: "If you took the words ‘white’ and ‘black’ and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech."
Jesus said, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you. Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright bombastic divisive principles.
- Reverend Jeremiah Wright, on being asked if he wanted to, say, walk back a bit on his commentary of 9/11 and roosting chickens.
Two points to this: first, I am now officially unimpressed with Rev. Wright's grasp of the message found in the New Testament. Given that I'm not trained in such things and he reportedly is, that in itself is an noteworthy feat. Second, the Obama campaign has just been given a potential free Get Out Of Trouble card.
Will they take it? And if they do, will it actually work? There is a certain flavor of "set-up for a sound bite by rank amateurs" to all of this, but that may just be poor, old paranoid me.
Moe Lane
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Barack finds himself in a very difficult spot concerning the good reverend.
If he chooses to denounce Wright's comments and distance himself him and Trinity, what portion of his support in the AA community will see that as a "sellout" to The Man? A portion of Barack's political identity among African-Americans is based on his involvment with Reverend Wright and Trinity. Is Obama will to risk that?
He says, in the May 5th National Review:
"Barack Obama and other Democrats use the word 'unity' as a substitute for something like 'patriotism'. They consider 'questioning the patriotism' of Democrats...beyond the pale and 'divisive'. All the while they use the word 'divisive' with diuretic abandon as code for 'unpatriotic'."
Reverend Wright couldn't have given a better example of proper usage.
How about this?
"Jeremiah Wright - a nazi of color"....
Both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton debated the execrable Rev. Sharpton and my brane is trying to remember that they both said they'd support Rev. Sharpton for President over any Republican. Rev. Wright seems garden variety compared to Rev. Al.
"Do you have a position on REPARATIONS?"
Then watch his head explode.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
"If Mr. Obama spoke like a preacher and not a politician, what would his position be on reparations?"
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Mr. Wright shoud take his $10 million slush fund more back to Africa, Zimbabwae would be a good place. Wright would find out in a micro second that the USA is best place to live.
Wright's got a %10Mil slush fund?
What evidence of this do you have?
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
It has been all over the internet, he also got a huge house in a white subdivision. Just punch in his name on any search engine and the information will come up.
Just curious. Did any of the commentators ask the good reverend just exactly what terrorism we were doing/supporting? Let's ask and expose his (at best) ignorance.