The absurd "furor" over Reverend Wright
The only reason there is a "furor" as the press likes to say, is because the Repubs and the press who are so firmly snuggled up in their pockets have created one. And the only credibility Obama has lost in my eyes is due to him feeling that he has to address it as if it is valid.
If Obama is responsible for what Wright says, or anyone else for that matter, doesn't it follow that the victims of Catholic abuse are also responsible for the actions of their pedophile priests? After all, these priests were once the victim's "reverends" too.
And what about the rest of us. Are we somehow responsible for the misdeeds and even the misspeaks of our former bosses, colleagues, and pastors? Are children held accountable for the independent actions of their parents? Are newspaper subscribers responsible for whatever might be printed in the oped? Any sane person would agree that that would be ridiculous.
Is Wright an independent, fully grown adult? Yes. Did Obama tell him what to say or encourage it in any way? No. Does Obama or anyone else have the power to control what Wright says? I doubt it.
Hilary tells a blatant lie trying to show herself to be some kind of macho war mistress, having to run for cover under a barrage of bullets to visit the troops, and that actually serious incident has disappeared from the press. But Obama, who is leading the race and is a real threat to the Republican criminal cartel, is still all over the news because of something someone else said that has nothing to do with him.
The only good part of this whole dirty business is that it shows - no, proves how embarrassingly petty the press, the republican party and all the Americans who eat this crap up as if it is gospel really are. The whole rest of the world is laughing their asses off because we are publicizing what all of them have known all along. That even with all of the riches and blessings we have, we are still just a petty, racist country and really no better than anyone else.
If Obama is responsible for what Wright says, or anyone else for that matter, doesn't it follow that the victims of Catholic abuse are also responsible for the actions of their pedophile priests? After all, these priests were once the victim's "reverends" too.
And what about the rest of us. Are we somehow responsible for the misdeeds and even the misspeaks of our former bosses, colleagues, and pastors? Are children held accountable for the independent actions of their parents? Are newspaper subscribers responsible for whatever might be printed in the oped? Any sane person would agree that that would be ridiculous.
Is Wright an independent, fully grown adult? Yes. Did Obama tell him what to say or encourage it in any way? No. Does Obama or anyone else have the power to control what Wright says? I doubt it.
Hilary tells a blatant lie trying to show herself to be some kind of macho war mistress, having to run for cover under a barrage of bullets to visit the troops, and that actually serious incident has disappeared from the press. But Obama, who is leading the race and is a real threat to the Republican criminal cartel, is still all over the news because of something someone else said that has nothing to do with him.
The only good part of this whole dirty business is that it shows - no, proves how embarrassingly petty the press, the republican party and all the Americans who eat this crap up as if it is gospel really are. The whole rest of the world is laughing their asses off because we are publicizing what all of them have known all along. That even with all of the riches and blessings we have, we are still just a petty, racist country and really no better than anyone else.
posted by Libby Spencer at 12:43 AM
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I was also surprised how the MSM jumped all over Wright. You wourldn't know fromthe coverage of his remarks that he said anything at all positive, like this from his NAACP address:
"In the past, we were taught to see others who are different as being deficient. We established arbitrary norms and then determined that anybody not like us was abnormal. But a change is coming because we no longer see others who are different as being deficient. We just see them as different. "
I think a lot of what he has to say is positive, at least as far as exposing some of the countries dirty little secrets. Condemning the government for its criminal behavior is not a bad thing. Exposing the ever present racism of American society is not a bad thing either.
We always seem to attack radicals and the radical opinions they hold but very often they are the ones who are responsible for needed changes.
Those who sit on their asses and accept the status quo do society absolutely no good at all.
Sorry, but you COMPLETELY miss the point. You claim that the MSM and others say Obama is RESPONISBLE for what Rev. Wright has said. No one has said that. What they have questioned is WHY DOES OBAMA ASSOCIATE WITH SOMEONE WHO ABSOLUTELY DOES HATE HIS COUNTRY, and . . . get this . . . at the same time . . . Obama wants to be . . . PRESIDENT OF THE GOD DAMNED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! AIDS created to kill blacks? It mainly killed gays! Or was that planned too? And so did the government think that when they got a gay black, they got a twofer? PLEASE!! There are no words fit to describe just how vile the radical left is!
Again with the straw men? This country deserves more criticism and anger than Wright or I can give it and yet every time someone points out our smug and cherished hypocrisy, our viciousness, our heartlessness, our meanness, our pettiness our greed, our dishonesty, our inhumanity, people like you start with the "hates America" crap.
That's only a way for people like you to pass the blame on to others and make awareness of history seem like a fault. Support what we do and what we have done since the beginning and you're deserving of hate all by yourself. Ignore the associations of Bush, McCain and all the other lap dogs of the religious hate mongers and enemies of the constitution and prove your own hatred of every thing this country has promised.
It's only because I'm so much a pert of this country, owe so much to it and have been shaped by it that I bother to criticize the crooks and liars and fools and bastards who have taken it over and sold all the mediocrities the idea that their stupidity is intelligence. Otherwise I'd just go elsewhere and let the nasty, simple minded, lying, ignorant bastards wallow in their own shit.
Please do find the vocabulary to describe critics of your complacency as other than "left" if you want any respect as a thinker at all. Wright may be odd and tactless and an unabashed showman, but he's hardly worse then you much less the Fallwells and Robertsons and the others who actually do hate freedom.
I'll replace left with . . . scumbag. Have a good day, and please reconsider and DO leave the USA.
What - and leave it to the vermin that turned my country into a septic tank?
If you think you can sling the shit and find an audience stupid enough to credit you you're wrong. If you think all you have to do is wave some buzz words and catch phrases and the rest of the subhuman wretches will make ape noises and pound their chests, you're wrong.
You don't care about that blowhard preacher any more than I do and apparently you've convinced yourself that joining the other blowhards makes you sound intelligent. It doesn't.
No, I don't care about the blowhard preacher. But why did Barack care about him?
Wow! We've been promoted to scumbags! Why did Obama care about him? Um, because they were friends maybe and had been for years?
Why do you continue to support a blatant criminal traitor like Bush? His offenses are a thousand times worse than Wright's.
Actually Dick, don't answer that. It would mean another comment in this post and I would just as soon you stayed out of my posts.
I didn't say I supported Bush; the topic was Obama anyway. Sorry for adding another comment to YOUR post.
Sightings of Paris's and Brittany's un pantied labidinal cleavage have been pushed off cable news by the baying pack's obsession with Rev Wright.
Such is the American media's focus for choosing who attains the most powerful executive position in the world.
I so wish Hillary would do a press-op with her trusty shotgun and mistakenly blast an endangered species. That at least could keep the press busy until June when Obama will begin his head to head against McCain.
The baying pack is all about baying, barking, howling, yapping and getting noticed, not about providing us with important news or insightful commentary. This campaign has been so long that we would have lost interest - or made up our minds long ago without the dogs.
As it is, most people don't give a hoot about this bozo and the few who do are simply looking for a reason to trash Obama. If this weren't true, you'd be hearing a lot more about he slimy associations of McCain instead of the faux outrage when anything is insinuated.
Most people don't give a hoot about this bozo? Really? Well, the reason Fox, CNN, and even PMSNBC have it on all the time must be becuase it's good for their, um, ratings, and pulls in advertising dollars. Also, Obama is slipping in polls in both NC and IN. And finally, nothing is interesting unless it involves tearing down the people YOU hate. Indeed, have you ever thought as callous as this might sound, that people get bored with another story of two volunteer marines blown up in Baghdad, doing what they signed up to do? Maybe that's why expatbrian's posts are so BORNG!!
I don't know where you got the idea that I or anyone else might give a flying shit for your increasingly incoherent and hysterical "insights."
Sorry you find the death of Americans boring - or BORNG as you spell it. I don't and I must say I'd find yours quite amusing. May it be soon and painful, you smug, cowardly stupid son of a bitch.
Ever been guilty of a typo? Oh, and by the way, the polls in Indiana and North Carolina are not my insights. They simply are what they are.
Keep your eyes open, DICK... We North Carolinians aren't as taken by this nonsense as everyone so feverently wishes. I predict Obama will trounce Clinton here in NC.
BTW - Brian & Fogg, you are the most knowledgable and interesting and lovable scumbags that I have ever known. And you know little dickie is just a troll.
God dick, are you still here? You must really be bored if you find this boring place entertaining. Now you're an expert in soldiers motivations and combat. May I ask what experience in either you have?
And awww shucks Rocky. Thanks for the support.
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